Was a great EMC World – I hope our customers enjoyed it, learned things, and gave us feedback on what they wanted next. So much stuff – won’t recap them but simply say that we showed how we are delivering on every step of the journey our customers find themselves on.
- Your Virtual Machine Teleporter is ready… Are you?
- ITaaS – Future Tech from EMC and VMware
- EMC’s Next-Generation vCenter Plugins
- EMC Unified Storage – Next Generation Simplicity
- EMC Unified Storage – Next Generation Efficiency
You vSpecialists and your EMC TC brothers and sisters were behind the scenes often, and interacting with customers everywhere in your bowling/sgt. pepper shirts :-)
Was crazy to see you up on stage in the picture below (with Pat G, our latest inductee) and think back to the fact that we only just started this really in 2009, and most of you have joined since the beginning of 2010. What’s even crazier is that this is now only PART of the global team – many of our EMEA and APJ compatriots couldn’t make it. This is also just part of the vSpecialist team (which support VMware/EMC and VCE Coalition activity) – this is the vSpecialist technical folks – there are also vSpecialist Sales folks. We are focused. We have skill. We have dedication. We have purpose. We have resources. I would hate to have to compete against the team in the picture below :-)
Crazier yet? We’re still just getting started – many more to bring on board in Q2, Q3, and Q4.
Craziest of all? Someone offered $300 for one of the vSpecialist shirts :-)
vSpecialists – I salute you!
If you want the high-rez photo – you can download it here.
Later on in the show, some of the folks setting up some of the stuff for the TC conference that back-ended EMC world (thanks guys!)
I think you should have had Adrian laying across the front of the group ... for fun of course.
Posted by: Kowall | May 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Chad, I knew many of the vSpecialists already and met a lot more of them this week at EMC World. Without exception, I have been impressed with their knowledge about virtualization and the data center in general, as well as their energy and enthusiasm and willingness to go all out. Really a great team that's come together. They also rocked the shirts hard.
I can confirm, however, that they are all still mortal human beings. So if you think you know your stuff and want to work hard, then I encourage you to apply to join the team.
Posted by: Jtroyer | May 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Chad - do you know one of your vSpecialists won one of the EMC Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing awards? Denis Guyadeen won for the article "How to Trust the Cloud - Be Careful up There!"
We even made an exception and allowed him to accept in his vSpecialist (racing car) shirt instead of his Proven Professional #redshirt. Pictures on our Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/provenprofessional/4600842467/in/set-72157624046461320/
Posted by: gminks | May 14, 2010 at 04:59 PM
Chad... Great conference.. vPlex rocked... Thanks for picking up on me at the TC session on Thursday :)
Posted by: Roberto Covarrubias | May 14, 2010 at 10:36 PM
The vSpecialist team is simply amazing. At least three times during my VMware booth duty a passing vSpecialist was dragged into customer discussions and performed incredibly. The fact that the vSpecialists were able and willing to assist the VMware staff with deep customer conversations is a hell of a statement about the character and quality of the team.
Posted by: Scott Drummonds | May 15, 2010 at 03:54 AM
It was an honor to be called out by Spellicy to hang out with these guys and share a few beers on Monday night. What an awesome team!
Posted by: Mike Foley | May 17, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Am I the only one who noticed that 100% of the vSpecialists are guys? And no it's not a job requirement, as far as I know... just mildly entertaining to wonder where the ladies are in our cool part of the IT world.
Posted by: kelm | May 20, 2010 at 01:10 AM
@kelm - you are not the only one who noticed. I've noticed - in fact, talked about it on stage to the team and then the team leaders right after the camera shot.
Calling ALL people, of any sex, color, creed - if you are passionate and technical guru on VMware, Cisco, EMC technologies, and good with customers - I want to know you!
It's been crazy, but while the team has grown there have been virtually no female applicants - that's just NOT RIGHT.
... indeed - where are the ladies in our cool part of the IT world?
Posted by: Chad Sakac | May 22, 2010 at 09:11 AM
Chad,
What a "TEAM" !!!, vSpecialist are beyond a doubt "THE BEST", and the "INDUSTRY" acknowledges the fact.
Posted by: G | June 06, 2010 at 01:19 PM