EMC World Optimized
Over 7000 attendees, hundreds of sessions and tons of announcements - how to soak it all in? You can’t! But, everyone is always trying to figure out how to absorb more information - check out http://www.emc.com/emcworld2009 - the keynotes have already been posted as well as a number of videos and blogs. The speed at which we can deliver information is so fast now that the challenge is more how to sort through what is valuable to you and how to take better advantage of what you have today. So, while there are always some great new technologies, a lot of the sessions and discussions are about utilizing what you have better and managing the ever growing amount of information.
For me, the optimization this year has been that I started a lot of the connections and conversations with many attendees online in the months leading up to the conference. Len Devanna has a great blogger’s lounge set up where we can gather the bloggers and Twitter users. There is always such a great concentration of people that I want to talk to at the conference, but now there’s a place where I’m pretty much guaranteed to be able to jump right into a deep conversation, whether discussing the next generation of the data center or the impact of social media. And with the use of many social media tools, I know that we’ll be able to continue the conversations online until we get the chance to meet again IRL (that’s “in real life”).
If you have any questions, please feel free to post a comment on this site, send me a note on Twitter or email me at miniman_stuart@emc.com (thank goodness the Blogger’s Lounge has power or my Blackberry wouldn’t have made it through the day). We’ll be doing a group photo at the Blogger’s Lounge between 1-2pm today and Chuck Hollis comes for Q&A.
Thanks for everyone who packed my Converged Data Center session - full house with people standing in the back. I give it again on Wendesday at 2:45. It’s also been fantastic catching up with so many old acquaintances and meeting so many people that I’ve interacted with online.
Cheers,
Stuart Miniman
Twitter @stu
