 way park you know what what's been the highlight for you I think the food lunch is great I mean you know it allows us to kind of widen out a little bit if you need to sit and you know do a little bit of work in the corner you can do that you know and Fenway was was excellent you know I mean it was the first time experience for me it was just cool to see the history you know I mean it was just something you just felt there as a enlightening experience yeah so what's your take on kind of the blogger influencer here you know Dell's pulled into the keynotes they've had some of the tweets up they had to video pretty sure I saw you up there I mean Bob Plankers I think has been on more things than everyone he of course was here yesterday so lots of exposure you know what what what's your take on kind of the that the media no I think it's great you know I mean I think that the customers want to be and they want to feel like they they have some influence there you know and it's like when really what the bloggers are doing is just you know interacting for others and trying to get the message out there and or communicate you know back and forth and you know I think it's really cool to see Dell have a stance that whether they want to pay attention to that stuff and they want to bring that in you know to the conferences and you know I think that the last keynote was fantastic I mean it was you know there was whiteboard interaction we're talking about the strategy you know and that's stuff that you know the customers in my opinion were a little bit like well what's that Bell's plan where they go on whether we know they've acquired these technologies where's the five-year plan you know and so I was to me that was a hundred percent of where it needed to be yeah I know what really resonated with me Carter talked about how you know we could say I love the line we could sell you a half-price ticket but if you didn't know where the train was going you probably aren't gonna get on board so yeah you know Dell used to be known as kind of the low-cost provider you know providing you know other things you know we having it and getting it to you faster and everything but they need to have the value add they need to have the strategy and the vision to put things together and it it was compelling they kind of hit all the notes of flash and virtualization even cloud as to where they're going yeah you know and I think that some of those technologies are technologies that will you don't have a great fit within the product line and it's about convergence in a lot of those areas you know and seeing some of those projects that products that have been bought and acquired you know here a year or two ago come to light now it's pretty neat yeah so one other thing I you know I just want to talk about you know near and dear to my heart is you know your it practitioner and you blog and you share you know coming from the storage world which I did you know too many IT people try to kind of you know the way we do it you know that's competitive advantage to us and we don't want to share the virtualization communities really good about sharing you know when we've done surveys we get you know an order of magnitude more responses that the V mugs and it's about sharing so you know what can you can share personally you know what what's your experience you know what is blogging and done in doing social you know done done for your career done for you personally yeah so you know I started vredder.com has kind of a spot to put what I've been working on you know I'm fighting to go through something my experiences right it was kind of like a little bit drilled in the world right so for me it's really helped me you know figure out what I can't find out they're probably put content in there that I feel fits that whole you know so to speak if it's you know something like fault tolerance or whatever it is and it's worked really well we're now rebrains form is more about hey I'm thinking about doing this here's an architecture design or here's some thoughts around that what's everybody else think you know events like like the Delce Rorge forms I'll put some of that content out there and it's all you know there are two different blogs a little bit different admin view vredder.com more of an analyst view or architect view on vbrainstorm so okay great stuff yeah Wikibon was founded on kind of peers sharing with peers love that dialogue in the community helping to get things started so thank you for all the contributions you've done there give you the final you know final point here anything else kind of you know not just Dell but industry-wide that you're watching you know what's exciting you you know what keeps you as you said you could if you could spend every day at events like this you would yeah I mean it's just it's really neat to see you know things like virtual desktops and you know things like private cloud and hybrid cloud and storage and you know convergence and all those things come together on a big scale I mean all the evolution of the technology is is rapid it's ever-changing and you know it's just it's cool to be part of you know so I'm checking on the on Twitter Roger Lund and feel free to contact me if you want to talk yeah absolutely what we love is you know Roger's one of the people I've known for you know quite a few years now we see each other at the events we continue the conversation online so check out his blog he's at Roger Lund on Twitter I'm at Stu on Twitter and this has been Stu Miniman with wikibon.org and we'll be right back with the Dell storage forum live continuous coverage after this break thanks