Who ruled at SNW this week? 3PAR! That's who. The F Class launch was our main event, but it was a lot more than that - it was stepping up in the industry. Lots of people have commented on the whole F Class theme and wondered what came first - the product name or the marketing theme. I can assure you it was the product name. The F class follows the E class.
Data Domain had a good week too - even if they don't know what rap is. Some of the other companies in the industry have other priorities these days. For instance even Howie Goldstein had a bigger booth than EMC.
The only EqualLogic folks that were there were ex-Dell Equallogic folks, like Jason and Fadi - and they always were players! But I missed seeing the rest of the EQ show regulars (D-man are you feeling me?). I got some serious hang out time with the 3PAR SEs, AE's and HQ peeps that were there and they are so freaking geeked! It was great. There is nothing like hanging with deep geeks throwin' down serious T-smack. Such delicious food for the blog!
I'm still bummed I wasn't able to go. I was asked to be a presenter for a session but the internal bean counters couldn't figure out the rules on what SNW would cover vs what the county would cover. Stupid public sector BS...
Posted by: Chris Fricke | April 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Hey Marc,
If a picture's worth a thousand words, that video clip is an epic tome :-) One wild ride at SNW eh? I shouldn't have skipped it.
John
Posted by: John F. | April 22, 2009 at 01:30 PM