Data Domain keynote at SNW – Slootman’s surprising response

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I attended multiple keynote and breakout sessions at SNW last week, but my busy meeting schedule conflicted with many of the morning sessions. I was able to attend to Data Domain’s talk given by Frank Slootman and wanted to provide some commentary. The bulk of the session was boring and included ...

SNW Recap

Friday, October 16th, 2009

I returned from SNW in Phoenix last night and wanted to recap the event.  I had 10+ meetings at the show and there were multiple sessions and so am providing my perspectives on the event in general and the sessions I did attend. Deduplication remains hot and still confuses many I attended ...

AboutRestore Nomination and Musings on a Virtual Tradeshow

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

First, AboutRestore.com was recently nominated as a top storage vendor blog over at StorageMonkeys, and there is an open vote to decide the winner. Here is a link to the voting page and I encourage my readers to participate. Second, I attended the Storage Decisions Data Deduplication Virtual Tradeshow a couple ...

Tradeshow giveaway gone bad: the video

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Tradeshow marketers spend hours trying to scheme up new and unique programs to drive booth traffic and these often include free giveaways. Ironically, the simplest things such as t-shirts or bags can be good traffic generators, and it is amazing that people can get so excited about tchotchkes that ...

Tradeshow perspectives

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I spent last week at a tradeshow in New York. These events are interesting because of the various end user perspectives. Those of us in the industry often get embroiled in the minutiae of products and features, and so it is very useful to understand the views of the ...