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 –
