Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?
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@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
I agree, conferences can be good. And when they are bad, pull out the laptop and work at them.
That explains a lot about the SpiceWorld I got to.
LOL, well the secret there is talk to vendors, skip the sessions. The sessions are for buyers, not IT people.
Yeah, but talking to vendors at the booths was almost as bad, except a couple out in the hallway that had a clue. Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
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@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@scottalanmiller said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
I agree, conferences can be good. And when they are bad, pull out the laptop and work at them.
That explains a lot about the SpiceWorld I got to.
LOL, well the secret there is talk to vendors, skip the sessions. The sessions are for buyers, not IT people.
Yeah, but talking to vendors at the booths was almost as bad, except a couple out in the hallway that had a clue. Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
that's not where you talk to them. The good vendors have people walking around, hanging out at the after parties, etc. The booths are for the swag and stamps and the uninformed. The real vendor interactions are elsewhere.
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@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
That's the thing to do.
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
Pro tip: if he enters a parking garage, DO NOT FOLLOW.
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@Grey said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
Pro tip: if he enters a parking garage, DO NOT FOLLOW.
I've seen that parking garage now. Gotta wonder how much someone got paid of for certifying that building, even from street level it's obvious that the stairs and such are paint!
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@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@Grey said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
Pro tip: if he enters a parking garage, DO NOT FOLLOW.
I've seen that parking garage now. Gotta wonder how much someone got paid of for certifying that building, even from street level it's obvious that the stairs and such are paint!
http://www.snopes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/tunnel-painting.jpg
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@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@Grey said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
@travisdh1 said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Next time I go to one of those, I'm just going to be a @scottalanmiller stalker, bet I'd actually learn something.
Typically the #followsam hashtag works pretty well.
Pro tip: if he enters a parking garage, DO NOT FOLLOW.
I've seen that parking garage now. Gotta wonder how much someone got paid of for certifying that building, even from street level it's obvious that the stairs and such are paint!
yup, the degree to which they faked the safety stuff was ludicrous and they fire department tried to get away without inspecting it while I was locked in there, too!
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Cards are in. I will make sure to hand out as many as possible. Plane & hotel is booked. Got Korora 25 with KVM and some ISO's installed. Will have my CentOS book on hand. This is going to be a fun trip.
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@NerdyDad My office is in Palo Alto (it's a long damn commute) and $400 a night is sometimes the rate for the Residence Inn. The trick in SFO proper is AirBnB, or use boutiques (us business travelers are after our points and will avoid both).
My hotel in Barcelona this year is ~$320 mostly for this reason.
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@scottalanmiller Spot on. The booth work is one of the most hated positions, and generally used by Product Marketing, or SE's who were trying to find an excuse to get a pass and pay for the trip.
The more serious SME's at conferences are often in the briefing center. Schedule with your vendor before hand with your sales rep who/what you need to meet with. Briefings are not just for the F500 (although those guys spend a LOT of their conference in there I'm pretty sure).
Now note, at a minor conference occasionally you get lucky. Some of my team did some booth duty for VeeamOn, and the Gartner conference.
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@scottalanmiller A lot of even small conferences have some good speakers buried in. A big thing is ignore the session topics and focus on the speakers. Look them up on linkedIn. Want technical information? Is it being given by a product marketing person with less than 6 months tenure, or is it being given by someone who's got 3 books you've read a blog you consult weekly.
At VMworld the following speakers could be have a topic called "things you didn't know about how to make a Cat5 cable" and it would be well worth going.
Frank Denneman, Duncan Epping, Mike Foley, Emad Younis, William Lam.
Frank would give you a performance deep dive on cables that would make your head explode, Duncan would somehow make it entertaining and practical even if it wasn't your core field, Mike would teach you why you don't need to be afraid of the cable but the person who plugs it in, Emad would teach you how to automate it, and William would teach you how to McGuyver your way into making the cable into a Indiana Jones Laso and fly across the ball room.
GREAT presenters can make even dry topics insanely entertaining.
For Pure storage I'd stalk Cody Hosterman. He's been doing some really cool stuff with vRA and automation recently. There's a big Russian Guy who talks about new x blade stuff who's pretty sharp and Scott the CEO has some interesting thoughts on the industry and data analytics and is worth talking to (I got locked in a room with Pure people for a few days recently). Vaughn Stewart is fun to argue with (Remember if he gets out of control threaten his hair).
The other person worth stalking while your there is Pete Flecha. He's a short guy who does the virtually speaking podcast and works for VMware. You should ask him about vVols and why you should be using it with Pure after you do your setup.
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100 Petabytes to teach a car to drive.
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New model for datacenters:
- Multi-cloud
- Core
- Edge
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Claiming investment protection through Evergreen policies.
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Claims FlashStack will trump hyperconvergence.
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Cisco coming up.
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@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:
Claims FlashStack will trump hyperconvergence.
Ha, it's on Cisco UCS. It's not even serious gear.
