EMCWorld 2015

[Jeff7181]

Anybody going to EMCWorld this year? Anyone been to previous years?

Is there more to it than free food/drinks and lots of marketing presentations? In other words, would it be good for an actual Storage Administrator/Engineer to attend, or is it more for Director/VP/C-Level people?

 

[drum]

Never been but I think those are mostly pimping latest offerings and being a couple day perk of the job getting to be out of the office.

I would think there would be tracks for IT Manager and admins alike

 

[rudeguy]

Do you make purchasing decisions?

 

[Jeff7181]

Do you make purchasing decisions?

In a way, yes. My management just accepted my recommendation to purchase two XtremIO 20TB Bricks. But I don't have the power to actually make the purchase. The recommendation of myself and my team lead just carry a lot of weight with our management.

 

[brianmanahan]

nah, hardware is boring

 

[Jeff7181]

nah, hardware is boring

EMC is something like the 4th or 5th largest software company in the world...

 

[brianmanahan]

EMC is something like the 4th or 5th largest software company in the world...

but i assume the conference isn't about programming

 

[iamwiz82]

I keep trying to sell the conference to management, but no luck so far. I handle all VNX, XtremIO, Networker, Data Domain, and Recoverpoint, along with having VIPR and Syncplicity sitting on the back burner right now waiting to be deployed.

 

[MiniDoom]

I'm going to vm world this summer in SF.

 

[Jeff7181]

but i assume the conference isn't about programming

You know what they say happens when you assume...

 

[child of wonder]

I'll be there. Previously went in 2012. Not a customer though, I work for a partner.

 

[cbrsurfr]

I went last year. The big draw seems to be the labs but every time I tried to get in there was like an hour wait. Imagine Dragons were awesome. Other than that it's mostly useless marketing stuff.