All the vendors I chatted to were fairly upbeat; not as busy as last year but most of them thought there were better quality leads than in previous years.
1) Pillar's stand seemed to be smaller than last year.
2) 3Par's t-shirts seemed to be a little faded.
3) There's been a fair bit of movement between vendors as per usual.
4) I didn't even get to the Copan stand, must have missed it.
5) No one wanted to talk to me on the HP stand, don't think they like me!!!
6) There were a few bleary eyes and imagine more this morning!
7) No-one tried to sell me Microsoft's Storage Server, so no-one got laughed at!
Disappointed to miss Barry Whyte on IBM's stand. IBM are really pushing XIV; got a few more roadmap details about the next release. I'm still not convinced and asked the question about double failure; didn't get an especially satisfactory answer apart from it being statistically unlikely.
I think the DS8k range is a better product, I really do! I understand that IBM just haven't got the penetration into the Open Systems market place with it, will XIV do it for them? We'll have to wait and see; there certainly seems a willingness to start the sales-pitch with no trousers on but I don't think price was ever really an inhibitor for the DS8k.
Lots of people talking about FCOE, there's a real buzz about it.
And, oh yes….I actually won something. I won a Flip video-camera on the EMC stand, I've had one in my shopping basket on Amazon for yonks but not bought one and now I don't have to!
And rather more people are reading my blog than I realised! Thanks everybody, it's nice to know that people do read it and more importantly, people enjoy it and I at least bring a smile to some faces!
