MMS 2008 - Tuesday
Summary: this is the first serious day, and it went well.
The BobMu keynote was inspirational, and while intersting was very datacenter-centric. I suspect I'll relate to tomorrow's keynote more. The State of the Union is always one of my favorite sessions, but there wasn't a lot of news to share, and (I hate to say it Bill) the top 10 list was not as funny as usual. The Brady Richardson demo was definitely a conference highpoint.
My client health presentation went smoothly. It led to lots of great conversations and questions, both at the end of the event and later. The evaluation scores were middling - not bad but not great. Clearly I should have figured out how to do some kind of demos. But I really want to see where the client health discipline goes from here - my ultimate goal is to stimulate its evolution.
Later we had a discussion of issues that affect large customers, and that was very interesting. It was intentionally free-form, and ended up covering a lot of topics with participation from everyone. There was a lot of passion on various topics. We'll have to see what we can do to keep the momentum going...
The myITforum party was wonderful, as always. A little smaller than I expected, but it was great to see everyone.
Dinner was a very enjoyable eclectic event. Great in many ways, with wonderful conversation, but the washrooms were the most out-of-the-box experience I've had in awhile.