I was at Cloud Expo yesterday in New York City.
I heard the keynote address entitled “Parting of the Clouds” from Dell’s Steve Shuckenbrock.
I sat through half of “Patterns of Cloud Computing” delivered by Microsoft’s Bill Zack.
And finally reached saturation 10 minutes into a breakout session led by Mark Wilkinson from HP.
My synapses were put into a deep freeze by the marketing blather (“flexibility”, “continuum”, “engaged in outcomes”, “end-user benefits” ) and mashed up metaphors (“an exclamation point on our journey”).
And the Javits Center’s generous WiFi terms ($4.95 for one hour) only validated my sense that delighting (to use a marketing-ism) attendees was not a concern of the Cloud Expo conference folks.Continue reading