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“The Larry Awards” Interop Las Vegas Awards for Best Presentation

By Larry Chaffin on Thu, 05/28/09 - 10:55pm.

  I decided to have a little fun and send some emails to friends who attended Interop to get their opinions on who had the best presentations from any technology. The name of the awards came from a few people who thought my name should be the award (sounds good to me). The votes were very different from what I thought and we had many discussions, but we do have our winner for this year listed below. Also I have added some comments that came back about what they did not like. Maybe this will help vendors do better next year.

"The Larry Awards", Interop Awards for Best Presentation

First Place: N-Krypt

Second Place: Riverbed

Third Place: Vidyo

 

Below are the presentations they did not like:

  • 1. Qwest- have no idea what they were doing other than getting people to take pictures.
  • 2. Polycom- if you are going to be at Interop, build a full Immersive Telepresence Room.
  • 3. Cisco- You need to have the products live; powerpoints just don't cut it.
  • 4. TriGeo- Been the same presentations for two years it seems, maybe something different?
  • 5. Barracuda Networks- need to stay on point about the product, not the girls or the van.
  • 6. LifeSize- oops they did now show up to Las Vegas, guess thats why.
  • - These were all random comments taken from the voters polled -

Nice Awards

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By Tammy (not verified) on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 6:53am.

This was nice, I liked some of the HP presentations also, but in the setting they had they were dry. Can you tell me why N-Krypt won over the others?

Let me Explain

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By Larry Chaffin on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 11:27am.

N-Krypt got it when they did the pitch for me at Star-up City. They hit all of the points I wanted to see, told me what I needed to know and did a demo. This was allot more than I could say for 50% of the Interop vendors, power points and bikini girls don’t get it. I know it is Vegas but many companies are losing focus and attendance in their booths. I say down and watch 27 people avoid one major vendors booth due to people trying to get them in the isles with offers. Have a good presentation, don’t use a professional speaker for your booth. It really looks cheap when you do that and it also look like an infomercial.   

 

Thank you for the recognition

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By Asif Choksi (not verified) on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 11:45am.

Thank's Larry. We were excited to demonstrate the product this year, and took away a lot of strong comments for a better showing for next year. Glad you appreciated the no-nonsense approach in just talking about a product that we are so passionate about, and excited to bring to market.

Best product = no bikinis required

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By Richard M. (not verified) on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 9:51am.

I asked one of the girls at the N-Krypt booth why they didn't have bikinis on: 'Sir, we have a great product, we don't need to resort to wearing bikinis. Would you like to see a demo?'. I did look at the demo and by far they had the best product of the show.

Thank you

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By Glenn Davis (not verified) on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 6:37pm.

Hi Larry,

Thank you very much for reviewing N-krypt's value proposition at Interop in Las Vegas!

We all appreciate your due diligence.

Respectfully yours,

Glenn Davis
EVP Sales
N-krypt International Corp.
gdavis@n-kryptcorp.com

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About Putting Realism Into Your Network

Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN Acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security and a Riverbed reseller. Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009 and is looking forward to the 2010 awards in Las Vegas.

Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:

Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.

Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years or experience. Pluto Networks is a channel partner of Cisco, ProCurve, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.