See You In The Hague

By Guy Bunker | September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment 

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Symantec’s user conference Vision combined with Altiris’ user conference Manage Fusion makes its way to EMEA from October 7-9 at the World Forum Convention Centre in The Hague. Lots of good sessions, with some great sessions from Symantec experts as well as our customers. If you’re coming along give me a shout, it would be good to meet some of my readers face-to-face.

Symantec Vision Conference – Day 3

By Guy Bunker | June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments 

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The big wrap-up today. However, before that some great sessions on topics like using software to reduce power consumption, a big part of green IT and the Veritas Virtual Infrastructure. Some repeated sessions – due to popular demand and a last chance to wander around the partner / exhibit hall.

Mark Bregman closed the conference with a look at trends for the future: consumerization of IT, the boundaryless enterprise and yet more green IT. More on those topics in the coming months.

The final wrapup was with the Mythbusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the Discovery Channel – which made for a great close. All-in-all it was a good conference, as I had hoped there was time to meet old friends and make some new ones. Several people liked the fact that they could download sessions they had missed onto their iPods, and one customer was frantically trying to fill his iPod up before heading back home to Australia. Until next year… I hope you all had a safe journey home. 

Symantec Vision Conference – Day 2

By Guy Bunker | June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment 

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Time flies by when you are having fun – and when you are learning a lot. The second day has been packed with information including the sessions that everyone wants to go to… what’s coming out in the next release!

There was a great round-table with customers discussing Enterprise Vault – it’s a pity that there were not more engineers there to hear what they had to say. While there were a few niggles, the feedback was really positive, so often engineers only hear about the problems. If there is one thing that customers do really well, it’s sell the product to other customers! There is nothing like hearing from someone who has implemented 150,000 seats to inspire confidence. Thanks to you all.

The day finished up with the Customer Appreciation Party where Jim Belushi played some great songs - he certainly knows how to get an audience going.

What’s The Buzz, Tell Me What’s A Happening…

By Guy Bunker | June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment 

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Symantec’s Vision conference starts today in Las Vegas. Even the airport is excited by it… with long banners in the luggage reclaim hall!

For customers, today is tutorial and certification courses. For me, it is partners, customers and the Dell party this evening!

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One Week To Go

By Guy Bunker | June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment 

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I’ll be in Las Vegas in a week’s time for the Symantec user conference, Vision. I remember the first Vision, which was also in Las Vegas more than a decade ago, there were 250 of us, our partner ‘hall’ was just outside the main room. Times have changed and there will be 1000s of delegates and the partner hall will be the size of a few football pitches. Keynotes, BOFs, a huge array of parallel sessions, robotics challenges, tutorials, the list seems endless.

For me it is all about customers and partners… old and new. There will no doubt be a couple of customers there who have been coming since the first one (I look forward to seeing you Jean-Louis and Bill!) alongside those who have only just become members of the Symantec family. So many of my partner meetings are carried out over the ‘phone it is always good to meet face-to-face, even if it is just once a year, couple this with the fact that many ex-colleagues now work for partners and you can see we will be in for a great week.