I found Vision overall to be heavy on marketing and glitz.  The Utility
Jones trilogy was a bit funny and pretty good quality for a tech show,
but I should never have paid an extra $200 bucks for the Advanced client
5.0 overview.  It was just a brief byline of the features, and whenever
anyone tried to ask real life questions (not specific configuration
questions) the presenter kind of said, I'll have to find out more about
that.  So many people there were obviously netbackup users and
administrators, (the first session on advanced backup and recovery
techniques completely filled up a large room) yet again, more marketing
and high level details.

Overall a disappointment to me...

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I do agree.  I was expecting some sales (or even a majority of sales)
but
most of the breakouts I attended where a complete waste of time. I would
say 10% of the ones I attended provided useful content (the NBU tuning
one for sure, as well as a VCS session I attended are the only two that
stand out).


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:28:19PM -0400, Greenberg, Katherine A wrote:
> 
> I, personally, found little of technical merit, beyond personal
> conversations with other users and also with folks I encountered from
> VRTS engineering. I found the technical breakouts to be lacking in
> anything but marketing *NEW* products and services...
> 
> Anyone else?

 -Mike Ekholm
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