Symantec and vExpert event
Many moons ago back in April, I and several other vExperts were invited to Symantec HQ for an executive briefing. What I thought was just going to be a sales pitch, turned into a deep discussion around virtualization philosophy and technical discussion around Symantec’s many products. Hit the link to read more if you are interested in my experience.
To say the least, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Symantec was genuinely interested to hear our thoughts not only around their own products, but about purely virtualization topics. I can say from the demos, especially netbackup, I was thoroughly impressed w/ the level of thought and precision behind their technologies.
3 things came up that I found most intriguing and encouraging:
- Netbackup’s evolution
- Storage Vendor-agnostic dynamic multipathing
- Symantec AV <—Agent vs. Agentless turning to Agent ‘and’ Agentless
I was still unimpressed w/ Application HA’s presentation, especially as an experienced sys admin. However, I did get an inkling of a feeling that there is much more to Application HA than what most presentations demonstrated. I plan on keeping in touch w/ their rep around this tech. I’ll post their twitter handle when I find the business card somewhere in my mountain of junk.
Anyway, other than the presentations and tech demos, it was a huge pleasure to meet some very excellent members of the vExpert community.
Here are their twitter handles and my brief non-helpful overly sarcastic attempt @ humorous descriptions:
@mpoore | Brits just sound smart to me and hilarious when they curse. |
@vSential | Has lots to say, always… |
@virt_pimp | Unique twitter pic |
@hashmibilal | Does actually look like his 8-bit pic or would that be 16-bit? |
@coolsport00 | Way too in shape. I’m jealous. |
Less sarcasm, more descript based on Twitter profiles:
Symantec:
@JordanPusey | Symantec Alliance Marketing, VMware Alliance |
@kmitchel | Symantec NetBackup Product Marketing Manager interested in conversations around virtualization and backup |
@SymRenRPM | Senior Regional NetBackup Product Manager for Symantec |
@abdulRasheed127 | Specializing in storage, data protection and virtualization. Carlson Executive MBA student at U of M. Gopher fan! Technical marketer at Symantec |
@symantec | Official Symantec Twitter Account |
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