One of the most conspicuous events in IT, Tech Ed SEA is here again. Kicked off on 11 Aug, this 4 days event is being held at Kuala  Lumpur Convention Centre. It is targeted to draw IT Professionals and Developers who are evaluating new technologies & gathering data to make decisions for their organizations.

As Microsoft’s premier & largest annual conference in the South East Asia region, this event is designed to provide technical professionals with training, information and community resources to build, deploy, secure, mobilize and manage effective solutions using Microsoft’s full range of current products. Participants not only can listen to the presentations from numbers of Microsoft experts, they can also have opportunities to interact with the speakers and obtain answers to specific questions in more than 100 breakout sessions and Hands-on-Labs. On top of that, they can meet up with industry experts to discuss best practices in deploying and integrating Microsoft product, and visit a wide range of IT products and solutions showcased at the exhibitor’s booths. Well, as the top web hosting company in Malaysia, certainly Exabytes wouldn’t absent in this prestigious event.

Let’s review some pictures that have been taken in the first day of Tech Ed 2008.

The exhibition began. The Tech Ed participants started crowding at our booth. Each visitor was given a nice goodies bag with free door gifts inside.

More and more people was coming…

and coming…

Gosh! So many of them! I just wish I could have 2 more hands!

The participants learned by doing in the Hands-On-Labs.

A scene of a long queue in front of a booth. Guess what they are waiting for?…

…lining up for their turn to enjoy fire power in this flash shooting game.

The “wheel of furtune” game at Fuji Xerox booth.

There were 3 sessions and each session had more than 8 talks were conducted concurrently in different conference halls. This was one of them, the “Windows Server 2008 Overview” talk.

The speakers of the talk, Tony Krynen and Daniel van Soest from Microsoft. 

The free “Internet cafe” in the middle of exhibition hall.

A snapshots of the corridor outside the conference halls.

Spot and Win Contest! – Day 1

Are you the lucky one?

Attention to those who have visited our Exabytes booth. Thank you for visiting our booth. Besides giving goodies bag and door gifts, we have a bigger surprise to you! During this 4 days Tech Ed event, if you are lucky to be captured in our snapshots, you could stand a chance to be the winner in our “Spot & Win Contest”.  Consecutive for three days , one grand prize is awaiting to be grabbed on each day. We will announce the lucky winner from day to day in our blog. The winners may collect their winning prizes from our booth on the next day after announcement made, or latest by the last day of Tech Ed 2008.

The winner of the first day can win a set of Targus retractable 3-in-1 mobile device charger and it goes to …

Congratulations to the lucky guy who is highlighted with the red circle in this picture, you have won one set of Targus retractable 3-in-1 mobile device charger as below! Please come to our booth to collect your prize ASAP latest by 14 Aug 08, the last day of Tech Ed 2008.

Greater prizes will be given on the coming day 2 and day 3. Stay tuned and visit our blog to find out more. You might be the next winner!

Tips: If you bring along the Exabytes blue goodies bag which you had taken from our booth on the first day, you stand a better chance to be spotted.

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Hey, interesting title there isn’t it? Did it attract you to read? Gotcha!

If you still remember, Exabytes is celebrating our 7th year anniversary this year. 7 special promotions were launched in conjunction with this memorable year. So, manage to recall anything? And relate 7 special promotions to this title? Yes? No? Haha..nevermind, that’s the point of having a blog, I will just link you to this 7th anniversary memorable page.

First icon – Win me back, express all you want! That’s it. We have the winner already! Yes, it’s a winner without “s” at the back of the word (as we previously announced that there will be only ONE winner). But, as you know, Exabytes just loves feedbacks, so, we cannot help it but to choose another 5 winnerS – notice that, we have “s” now. So, check out those lucky winners and their blogs.

Let’s start with 5 consolation prize winners. What will they get? It’s our exclusive Exabytes 7th Anniversary t-shirt. Here goes the list…

Soh Yiin Lih – This blog has got a mixture of chinese words and english words

Siew Wing Loon – Exabytes celebrates 7th anniversary!

Kim Ling Yew – Why I’m in bed with my hosting provider?

Chuah Kee Man – Exabytes the bytes that bite

Sashidharan Subramaniam- Exabytes, should I go back?

Now..time for the 8GB iPod Touch winner! The grand prize goes to………..

Syed Ahmad Fuqaha – Want good house for joomla in Malaysia!

Congratulations to all the winners! Thank you for participting and for non-winners, we truly thank you for your time spent to join this contest!

Cheers!

Announcement

In conjunction to Exabytes X-Files Private Screening Movie, witness the birth of our very own short advertisement, brought to you exclusively by Exabytes! It was premiered last week during the opening of the happening event, but if you were not there to join us then, there’s no need to fret!

Exabytes bring it over to you again, right here, right now!What’s even better is that, avid X-Files fans can also download some of our funky alien avatars, specially made for you by our talented designer – Vickson, so you can show off to your Yahoo or MSN Messenger friends! All you have to do, is right click on the avatars below, click “Save Picture As”, save it in your preferred location and the avatars are yours for your usage!

And remember, you only get it from Exabytes! Enjoy the short advert and have fun downloading!

Click HERE to watch the Advertisement!

Announcement, Exabytes Free Download Center

The waiting is finally over. The juries have made their decision. And the winners for Host & Win Season 2 Quarter 3 go to . . . sorry, not going to reveal them here! Haha. Anxious to know if you are the one to bring back the Nintendo Wii worth RM 1699? Make sure you check Exabytes website regularly as winners will be announced via our website, as well as our newsletters, so don’t miss it!

The lucky winners for this season would win themselves :
Grand prize : Nintendo® Wii™ (worth RM1,699) x 1 winner + Exabytes Voucher (worth RM199) each

2nd prize : HP Officejet 4355 All-in-One Printer (worth RM455) x 4 winners + Exabytes Voucher (worth RM199) each

3rd prize : Logitech EX90 Wireless keyboard + wireless optical mouse (worth RM105) x 10 winners + Exabytes Voucher (worth RM199) each

Consolation prize : Exabytes Voucher (worth RM199) x 35 winners

In the meantime, while you’re checking our website every 5 minutes to see if your name is listed as winners, don’t forget to check your house mailbox too, as prizes are already making its way to the lucky winners’ houses!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Insight @ Exabytes!

3 Aug 2008, a big day for Exabytes. The Exabytes third private movie screening has been held in GSC Cinema in Queensbay Mall, Penang.It was our honour to have the enthusiastic participation from our invited guests consists of our valued clients, vendor, suppliers, business partners and also WebmasterMalaysia.com members to this joyful event. We would like to extend our appreciation and special thanks to those who have spend their valuable time to join this movie day. Without your presents and great support, this event couldn’t be a successful one. Thank you so much!

Let’s check out some interesting moments captured during the event.

The “Grand opening”. Exabytes crews were busy setting up the ticket counter.

Our sweet “Ticket Redemption Counter Executives”. If you have been to the first or second Exabytes Private Movie Screening, I guess you might be familiar with them.

The invited guests are coming to our counter to collect their tickets.

Exabytes interviewer: “I want to listen to truth. Tell me how you think about Exabytes and our services?”

Exabytes interviewer: “Thank you for telling your sincere words, here is your reward – Our Exabytes 7th Anniversary T-Shirt!”

Thank you for coming miss. Here is your goodies bag with freebies at inside.

Mmm…What’s inside?

Happy go lucky! That’s why I am lucky to be here for this joyful event.

Err… kid. Are you sure you are coming here to watch The X-Files? Isn’t this movie a bit too complicated for you?

Supergirl is taking a break for movie.

Listen up, WebMasterMalaysia.com members. Guess who is here? , your famous forum moderator, Lim CS.

When the movie is going to start? I can’t wait…

This uncle really knows how to pose…

A group photograph of Exabytes members their partners as a happy ending for this event.

Once again we want to say thank you for your participation. Also not forgetting our crews from Exabytes, thanks to their effort and teamwork to make this event a successful one.

Our next stop for Private Movie Screening could be in KL. Stay tuned and see you again!

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