I\u2019m at a HP Storage event in Dublin to learn about the next generation of enterprise class storage.\u00a0 The place is full of \u201csuits\u201d who are allegedly shopping and, of course, sales people from HP and resellers.\u00a0 Normally at these events, those sales folks are all over you like a cheap suit. <\/p>\n
However, I have a cunning and devious plan! <\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t shaved in 2 days.\u00a0 I\u2019m standing in a corner with my Dell<\/em> laptop looking all moody and dishevelled as if I came in off the street for the free coffee.\u00a0 Sales folks are assuming I\u2019m not a decision maker and that the suits from the government agencies are here to buy stuff – more fool them!\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned from being on the dark side with an very clued in salesman that those folks just turn up for the free stuff and the raffle.\u00a0 They usually have preferred suppliers and have no intention of doing anything. <\/p>\n I\u2019ll see if I can blog anything I learn from here.\u00a0 I had to sign some sort of NDA when I came in.\u00a0 I\u2019ll soon see if this is \u201ctop secret\u201d or not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m at a HP Storage event in Dublin to learn about the next generation of enterprise class storage.\u00a0 The place is full of \u201csuits\u201d who are allegedly shopping and, of course, sales people from HP and resellers.\u00a0 Normally at these events, those sales folks are all over you like a cheap suit. However, I have … Continue reading “How To Avoid Salesmen At An Event”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}