After a couple of weeks on the road, I just arrived back from Teradata Partners last night.  My overall impressions were very positive about the event and about some of the initiatives that we’ll see from them in the coming months.

However, while being away I wasn’t properly able to advocate for the family pet…and he obviously needed me to save him from this:

So aside from heavy workloads, a lot of research related to how mid-market companies can best measure TCO, and planning the 2010 research agenda, pet advocacy will be in my job description for the next couple of weeks – at least until Halloween!