Burton Group Catalysts conference is an annual event which explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies shaping today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise. Catalyst Conference is renowned for its attendee-driven agenda, high-profile speakers, in-depth content and fiercely independent point of view.  This year, Novell is unveiling its Cloud initiatives through an interoperability demo in this conference.   This is a very important conference for us as the outcome and learnings from this conference will provide the right directions for our cloud strategy.  I’m one of the attendees from Novell with the objective of meeting with customers and partners and understand the concerns which are holding them back from moving to a cloud. 

The venue for this conference is the newly opened San Diego Bayfront.  You get a magnificent view of San Diego bay from this 30 story hotel.  I’m alloted a north-west  corner room on the  20th floor.  Here are some photographs from my room.

This is the view of the bayside.

View of downtown, next to the Bay

The train depot at the north side.

View of the Bay from level Aqua (4th floor)