What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone remember this crazy stuff? It's been like three years since I last saw it and still, no product that you can buy. But they keep updating the website and posting "news" as if there is a company there.
Should there be anything to buy from the site? It doesn't seem like it.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone remember this crazy stuff? It's been like three years since I last saw it and still, no product that you can buy. But they keep updating the website and posting "news" as if there is a company there.
Should there be anything to buy from the site? It doesn't seem like it.
Nope, because they don't actually have a product. They wanted to get me to endorse it many years ago, but were unable to produce even a demo. They got kind of upset when I insisted on letting me actually install it rather than doing a remote demo that would show me nothing. Eventually when I pushed and said that they weren't getting anything more from me until I had seen the product myself, they stopped talking to me. They had gone through a LOT of effort to try to sell me on the product, too. Like sending reps to see me a few times, even the owner traveled from Canada to meet with us. But all of that appears to have been done in the hopes that with enough presence, we'd like forget to ever look at the actually product.
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The funniest part of the whole thing was that after a big meeting one time I had to drive their US rep to the station so that he could return home. And while doing so we had time to talk and he was going on and on about how brilliant the product was. But I finally got him to admit that as the only rep for the product, he'd never actually seen it, either. Only heard about it.
Even internally, there was no product. Not a thing.
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My only guess is that the website and everything are paid for by family investors and the company is actually running a scam to suck money out of family members or something. So there is enough that casually looking at the site makes it seem active and impressive. But when pushes comes to shove, there is nothing behind it. It's a lot like Contoso. Just a template of a business, not an actual business.
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Oh Wow... I wonder what happens if I "Book a Demo" and act serious?
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Friend of ours (who is already planning to be at MangoCon) sitting at Atmosphere at the Burj Khalifa this morning. He's an AWS architect.
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh Wow... I wonder what happens if I "Book a Demo" and act serious?
OMG, you should. I can tell you all about the demo so you can tell me if it has changed or if they ever really expose anything.
What's funny, is that they do so much to "shield" you from ever seeing the real thing, that we ended being confused and thought that the GUI that they kept showing was the product. But we did some research and the GUI that they show, as the ONLY thing that they show, is actually Guacamole. That's how we originally found Guacamole!
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"STABILITY – Network Reboot Solves 99% of IT Issues" I'm sold
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/241/9e9.gif
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What?
"With Jentu, data is always at rest"
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"Jentu is “inverted VDI”"
So it's a an Inverted Pyramid of Doom, but with the incorrect definition?
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"Prevent ransomware/malware by minimizing attach surfaces on your endpoints"
I think you mean attack surfaces. . .
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"System drive is Read Only"
So I guess we're never getting any updates, security fixes or bug patches eh?
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
"STABILITY – Network Reboot Solves 99% of IT Issues" I'm sold
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/264/241/9e9.gif
Yeah, and it's a desktop storage solution.... like, um, how does that affect network uptime?
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Just got an email from IBM promoting COBOL 6.
Facepalm.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What?
"With Jentu, data is always at rest"
Yeah... they have no idea what any of what they say means. They just spout gibberish.
They had never heard of virtualization or VDI when we talked to them, either. Like, they were trying to do things that were already done and had never even researched the market to know what was there.
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The funniest stuff was their sales pitch... "solve the problem of expensive downtime and complexity from failed destop hard drives." Um... that's not a problem anyone that I know has!
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
"System drive is Read Only"
So I guess we're never getting any updates, security fixes or bug patches eh?
LOL. What they do is boot everyone from a single ISO sitting on a SAN.
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Trying to get girlfriend’s laptop through some blue screens. Windows 10 = shit client OS
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@eddiejennings yeah I becoming more and more irked with Windows 10.
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Girlfriend agreed to try Linux
So after I copy some data (and see if this hard drive is reporting bad sectors), her freedom begins.
