Blood was pumping, veins were pulsating, eyes twitching. No, this wasn't the scene at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, but the reaction of one livid audience member to a panelist's comments at one of the last sessions of the show.
Many vendors grumbled that the end-user turnout was low -- very low. Frustration about the subject reaching a boiling point at the SNIA's IP Storage Forum panel discussion on Wednesday night.
"In our industry, we like to say the toughest job is being an end user," said Ahmad Zamer, chair of the IP Storage Forum's iSCSI subgroup and a product line manager in Intel Corp.'s (Nasdaq: INTC) LAN Access Division. "If you leave it to the vendors, every product they make should last forever... Yet, how many end users here are happy with their storage today?" Nobody in the audience raised a hand. "No end-users..." Zamer continued.
A large man in the audience wearing a Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) shirt gave several exasperated sighs before jumping to his feet, pushing his chair back angrily in the process. "There are no end users here!" he yelled. "There are no end users here!" Then he stormed out before we could catch his name, whereupon the discussion continued among the vendors who remained.
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