What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller did you miss that 10+ mins ago?
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It stalls a lot here, they are determined to push full video to me so it constantly freezes up and just waits till the stream catches up. So instead of getting real time I am getting it delayed.
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@scottalanmiller Awww... yeah i've stopped listening.. they aren't talking to me.. I don't have 100K in hardware period..
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HA HA HA. They just said $100K PER YEAR for their product is "cheap" for the SMB. $300K - $400K purchase price is what this panel thinks makes sense for the "smallest" companies.
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They also said that SMBs should spend 5% of their budget on IT and said that that means that $100K is easy for them to spend on this product.... um... so zero dollars for desktops, OS licenses, storage, IT staff, applications, etc.
Talk about not getting it.
And their "expert" that they have promoting it just said that you should spend on this instead of hiring IT people.
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They really need to turn off the video and just send the audio. There is literally nothing to look at, it is just talking heads, but I cannot disable it so the bandwidth needs are huge and the audio stops every few seconds. If they send just audio, I could just keep listening.
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Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
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No they are always like that no matter what the subject it.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
Definitely not this one. There was basically no tech experts. It was all very junior guys, guys who called $80K people the "expensive specialists" that they want to eliminate so that IT can be reduced to helpdesk people. All are from really little, limited environments and didn't understand their market or how the products being discussed would apply. And the big enterprise vendors involved are talking about companies with millions in their budgets while the other guy is talking about not being able to afford one $80K IT staffer. So a big mismatch.
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@Minion-Queen said:
No they are always like that no matter what the subject it.
I've done some and like to think that I have provided value. Of course, I'm not moderated either. This was.
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This is what they were trying to sell as if the smallest business would need one:
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Just my 2 servers ran a tune of 60k.
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@scottalanmiller said:
This is what they were trying to sell as if the smallest business would need one:
I stopped looking at the site when I was greeted with the "Important message from EMC and Cisco" lol.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How did you two get that high?
I'll take "Question's I've asked guests at my house after a dinner party" for $500 please Alex
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
Just my 2 servers ran a tune of 60k.
How did two get that high?
Each server is:
Dell R720 (xd? It's got 12 x 2.5" bays)
256GB of RAM
1.2TB RAW SSD Storage (6 x 200GB drives, Dell branded, most likely, 800GB Usable in RAID 6).
2 x NVIDIA Grid K2 cards.These are for VDI and they run some heavy hitter apps. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, AutoCAD, and a few others that I can't remember.
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Oh okay, that's some serious hardware.
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@dafyre said:
These are for VDI and they run some heavy hitter apps. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, AutoCAD, and a few others that I can't remember.
How many users are you supporting with that hardware that run PS/CAD/etc? How does VDI compare to high end workstations?
