Steve Duplessie tweeted today that he thought that SNW was a waste for end-users. Historically I would agree with him, but I thought I’d give the question a fresh look. Sometimes end users ask me, “If you were me and you could only go to one seminar a year, which one would you go to?”
First, let’s consider the vendor-specific shows: EMC World, CA World, VM World, Mac World, Symantec Vision, etc. I assume you know what you’re going to get when you go to those shows. The answer to every problem you have is a product from that company, or at the very most, a product from a partner of that company that probably isn’t a competitor of that company. I remember once when I saw an exhibitor at a vendor-specific show ignore this and it did not go over well. So if you want to learn all about vendor A and why they’re so great — and never get any
Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O'Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at Sullivan Strickler, which helps companies manage their legacy data
