Posted May 3rd, 2011 by Kevin Murray
I am thrilled to report that the answer to this question for Emulex is more than 700!
I spent the week in Orlando working at the IBM Systems Technical Enablement University and the event was a huge success for Emulex, and I believe for IBM as well! This was the best executed and best attended IBM event in a number of years and lucky for us, because it was at this event we decided to increase the Emulex presence. The combination of our increased effort at IBM’s successful show meant that our team was losing our voices from talking with so many people.
The week started off with an executive presentation from our Vice President John Alfieri, who talked about a major joint win that Emulex and IBM had together. Many in the audience stopped by our booth later to tell us that they were starting to understand the power of our joint solution and were looking forward to working with us on new opportunities. We also had two great technical breakout sessions delivered by Tom Boucher on how Emulex is helping to revolutionize IBM I/O.
The event covered all of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group(STG), so it was the perfect venue for us to put forth our best effort. Some people may not be aware that Emulex has technology in most STG products today. We were one of only a few exhibitors that had products that everyone in the audience was using, so every contact was a great contact. Our booth was a non-stop buzz of activity throughout the show and many deals were discussed with our sales team. An event management representative told me on the last day that our booth was easily the busiest of the event and was the busiest he had seen in at least the last 10 shows he had done.
Thanks to our great Emulex team and IBM’s event execution, I believe we have cracked the code of what it takes to have a truly successful event. I am looking forward to the next one!
Tags: IBM, IBM Bladecenter, IBM Power Systems, IBM Technical Enablement Summit, System x, VFA, Virtual Fabric
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Posted October 28th, 2009 by Tom Boucher
I have been extremely busy of late making sure the last few weeks of integration testing are complete and any bugs we can find are stamped out, and I’ve been unable to keep up at least a weekly cadence this month, so I thought I would blast out some commentary on a number of things that have happened here in one big consolidated post.
It appears that the appropriate sacrifices were made to the gods of computer shows and our demonstration of the eVFA adapter on the IBM BladeCenter at Storage Networking World: Europe.
Unfortunately, due to my need to be in the States to help finish up our final testing before general availability, I was unable to attend in person. Instead, I helped walk the team over the phone through enabling the adapter & getting VMware up and running.
I’ve been following vicariously through people that have gotten updates and posted their thoughts. One author, Nigel Poulton, was lucky enough to gain some nice pictures of the HS22 with the eVFA card installed in his write-up, and he touches on something I wanted to expand on a little bit in this quote:
NOTE: Of particular interest to me was the fact that the core features, as well as the base cost, of this adapter are 10Gbps Ethernet. This is very interesting when you consider Emulex are traditionally a Fibre Channel company. Clearly Emulex are moving with the market here and recognising Ethernet as the dominant technology and building on that. Emulex also have people on IEEE 802.1 committees such as DCB. Now that’s what I call not betting against Ethernet.
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Tags: 10GbE, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, VFA
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