brandon_butler
Senior Editor

Storage vendor sends “hangover” kit, expects VMWorld to be one big party

Opinion
Aug 22, 20141 min

I’m ready for anything at VMWorld now

Storage vendor X-IO is either looking to butter up journalists covering VMWorld, or they expect the conference to just be one big party. Or maybe a little bit of both.

Days before the show kicks off Cloud Chronicles got a FedEx shipment from X-IO with a “hangover kit.”

It includes:

-A Sugar-free Red Bull

-Travel size Advil

-Travel size “Physician Care” antacid

-Eye drops

-Sqwincher

What is Sqwincher, you ask? It’s a no-caffeine, low sodium, non-carbonated lemon-lime concentrate, according to the label; it’s “a great tasting, scientifically formulated electrolyte replacement drink designed to rehydrate, restore and recharge.”

Just what am I getting myself into by going to VMWorld?

brandon_butler

Senior Editor Brandon Butler covers the cloud computing industry for Network World by focusing on the advancements of major players in the industry, tracking end user deployments and keeping tabs on the hottest new startups. He contributes to NetworkWorld.com and is the author of the Cloud Chronicles blog. Before starting at Network World in January 2012, he worked for a daily newspaper in Massachusetts and the Worcester Business Journal, where he was a senior reporter and editor of MetroWest 495 Biz. Email him at bbutler@nww.com and follow him on Twitter @BButlerNWW.

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