It’s crazy to see how focused we are, and how many folks we have working day in day out on being the best partner for VMware – for VMware themselves, their partners, and their customers.
This is the 2nd inaugural “EMC/VMware pre-VMworld meeting” – we share/learn/warm up for the event.
EMC competitors in this space – this room is your competition – I don’t envy you. They are all awesome at what they do.
It’s also where we recognize key contributors over the prior year – and I wanted to thank them publicly, so I’ve recorded the awards ceremony (I’ll post it later).
Special recognition for VMworld demo efforts:
- Stephen Spellicy
- Mike Foley
- Ed Walsh
- Peter Keilty
- Bill Grenache
- Rick Scherer
- Clint Kitson
- Steve Hegarty
- Ken Gould
- Kevin Z
- Josh Gywther
- Nanda Padmanabhan
- Stephen Hunt
- Chris Cicotte
- Jim Ruddy
- Chris Birdwell
2010 Journey to the Private Cloud team – MVP Award winners:
- Chris Troiani – for carrying a huge burden like it was a cloud
- Lee Loughnan – for making order from chaos
- Francie Kress – for making it happen for her division
- Aslihan Acimuz – for making the deals happen directly and indirectly
- Keith Coughlin – for calm leadership in a storm and being a subtle force for change
- Fabio Chiodini – for enabling the masses
- Rafe Wang – for fighting the good fight
- Itzik Reich – for being an incredible member of the vSpecialist tribe
- Scott Barneson – for going above and beyond the call of duty
- Brittany Coulson – for **BEING** Everything VMware at EMC
- Aaron Patten – for solutions work on View
- Don McMaster – for solutions work on VPLEX and apps
- Dennis Murphy – for holding the whole thing together
- The VSI team (Lee McColgan, Andrew Kutz and Joshua Hutt) – for giving us a platform to start our true integration story
2010 vRockstar award:
- Peter Keilty – for superhuman efforts in the EBC.
Congrats all, thank you and thanks to the whole team…
Oh, BTW, before we got rolling, the team took a point about pointing out a variety of “Chadism’s”
so… here they are for posterity….
- “Dude”
- “Whammo”
- “Giblets”
- “Whiz bang”
- “Flywheel”
- “Grock” (really – people don’t know this one?!?!)
- “Auger”
- “Debbie Downer”
- “Orthogonal”
- “Interesting Observation”
- “Dimensions”
- “Franken-Block”
- “Doink”
- “Newb”
- “EMC Crap”
- “Marketing is your oyster”
- “Awesomesauce”
Yeah – looking at this list - well, I’m full of it. You guys – you keep it coming, I’ll keep bringing it :-)
if "Grock" is referring to the concept introduced by Robert Heinlein in "Stranger in a Strange Land" then I believe it should be spelled/pronounced as "Grok".....
"Grock" refers to a swiss clown, componist, and musician......is that what you are shooting for?
hey just trying to keep you honest and on the straight and narrow, Chad....... :-)
Posted by: Ken | August 31, 2010 at 11:14 AM