One surreal and somewhat disconcerting piece of this show, as at SNWs past, was the presence of dozens of people wearing identical, beige polo shirts emblazoned with the SNIA logo. This taupe brigade milled about SNIA's demo area.
In their identical SNIA garb, it was difficult to tell which company any one of them worked for -- ahhhhh... and that's the point, don't you see? One for all, et cetera. But the sandy-colored uniforms had the weird effect of making the group look like a militia (well, a casual militia). Or more benignly, perhaps a Buddhist collective from Monterey.
But there was one guy who was wearing an olive green SNIA shirt: Phil Mills, chairman of SNIA's Supported Solutions Forum and a technical staffer in IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) storage systems group. Did this indicate some special status? Are some SNIAns "more equal" than others?
Nope. Turns out they had simply run out of the beige ones. Phil, get that shirt ironed next time, won't you?
'There Are No End Users Here!'
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
