SpiceWorld 2014
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Figured that we should have a place to discuss all of the goings on at the conference since so many of us are here (maybe as many as twenty people from this community are attending the conference in Austin right now.)
Keynote starts here in less than an hour. I normally skip this but I think that I am going to try to attend it this year.
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First new vendor that we met from the conference: https://www.aetherstore.com/
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I wish I could have went this year. I had a few vendors I wanted to speak with and I really really really wanted to see Rob & Martin's PowerShell session and Tom Limoncelli speak.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
I wish I could have went this year. I had a few vendors I wanted to speak with and I really really really wanted to see Rob & Martin's PowerShell session and Tom Limoncelli speak.
Tom Limoncelli has been there two years in a row now. He'll likely be back next year. The Powershell session was amazing!
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Amazing? Not quite. Instructive? Definitely.
I left the same feedback I leave each year on a basic session I attend.
They need to try and get more advanced sessions that run maybe a double session or session and a half in time.
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I'm not sure how I felt about that streaming "cloud" session about using cheap hardware for everything even in the normal enterprise.
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If you are all in with virtualization, it does make sense because you should have the capacity to just shift the workload around the failure
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@JaredBusch said:
If you are all in with virtualization, it does make sense because you should have the capacity to just shift the workload around the failure
You'd have to have a large infrastructure (the size of Google/Facebook) for desktop components to make sense like that. Very few have that big of a setup.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
You'd have to have a large infrastructure (the size of Google/Facebook) for desktop components to make sense like that. Very few have that big of a setup.
If you go down the VDI route, it does not take that.
Also, desktop hardware can easily be cheap shit now for a company with a solid desktop imaging setup. Cheap doesn't mean any and every thing. Go with low cost but the same base components and your images will still be solid.
You easily have a lot of ways to drop hardware costs if you really want to. In ways that do not drive up the labor costs.
It comes down to planning.
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@JaredBusch said:
Amazing? Not quite. Instructive? Definitely.
I left the same feedback I leave each year on a basic session I attend.
They need to try and get more advanced sessions that run maybe a double session or session and a half in time.
We wanted to do a more advanced session along with the Introduction one, but since Jeffrey Snover was there doing his JEA session they didn't want three PowerShell sessions going. I was thinking a session on tool building would be interesting, but it was a no go. Sorry!
As for the time, I don't disagree, but they only give us the 45-50 minutes (with 10 minutes set aside for Q&A) so we tried to cram in as much as we could while covering the basics to get you started.
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@Martin9700 said:
@JaredBusch said:
Amazing? Not quite. Instructive? Definitely.
I left the same feedback I leave each year on a basic session I attend.
They need to try and get more advanced sessions that run maybe a double session or session and a half in time.
We wanted to do a more advanced session along with the Introduction one, but since Jeffrey Snover was there doing his JEA session they didn't want three PowerShell sessions going. I was thinking a session on tool building would be interesting, but it was a no go. Sorry!
As for the time, I don't disagree, but they only give us the 45-50 minutes (with 10 minutes set aside for Q&A) so we tried to cram in as much as we could while covering the basics to get you started.
You did a great job!
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@Martin9700 said:
As for the time, I don't disagree, but they only give us the 45-50 minutes (with 10 minutes set aside for Q&A) so we tried to cram in as much as we could while covering the basics to get you started.
That is why I leave feedback every year that they need to make longer sessions for specific advanced topics. Maybe one year they will listen.
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@JaredBusch said:
@Martin9700 said:
As for the time, I don't disagree, but they only give us the 45-50 minutes (with 10 minutes set aside for Q&A) so we tried to cram in as much as we could while covering the basics to get you started.
That is why I leave feedback every year that they need to make longer sessions for specific advanced topics. Maybe one year they will listen.
I hear you were there! I somehow missed meeting you!
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@JaredBusch You can add your input here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/592878-spiceworld-austin-suggestion-thread. I'm hoping that the more people we get piling the more likely it is that they will listen. I've heard the same things after every Spiceworld, and it seems like it will take a more concerted effort to get things changed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
First new vendor that we met from the conference: https://www.aetherstore.com/
One of these days I want to try this. It seemed like a very neat product.
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@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
First new vendor that we met from the conference: https://www.aetherstore.com/
One of these days I want to try this. It seemed like a very neat product.
Agreed.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
I wish I could have went this year. I had a few vendors I wanted to speak with and I really really really wanted to see Rob & Martin's PowerShell session and Tom Limoncelli speak.
They are a perennial favourite. Always do a great job. Best attended session as far as I know.
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@JaredBusch said:
They need to try and get more advanced sessions that run maybe a double session or session and a half in time.
It's a tough venue for advanced sessions. And as the event gets larger, the number of more entry level people as a percentage goes up. The intimate group of old timers stays at roughly the same size while the general pool grows.
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820 attendees this year, up slightly from last year. This is the first year in six that the attendance was allowed to go as high as it could rather than being capped by the venue (e.g. it did not sell out.) So this is the organic limit of the conference at the moment. It many ways, I wouldn't want it larger - the event is too short and too "busy" to get to spend enough time with everyone as it is. The more people that attend the harder it gets to spend time with the people who are there.
64 vendors this year, which is great but it keeps you really busy on top of seeing people. SO many vendors to see.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It's a tough venue for advanced sessions. And as the event gets larger, the number of more entry level people as a percentage goes up. The intimate group of old timers stays at roughly the same size while the general pool grows.
Not even talking about old timers, but what about a person who was there this year and wants to come next year but to do more advanced topics. The schedule could easily support a couple longer sessions. Not many, certainly, but a couple.
