Here are some nuggets from the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas last week that weren’t enough for a full story but were interesting nonetheless.

• “The dominant life form on the planet will be Windows.” - John Enck, Gartner research VP

• “We’re asked less and less to make a business case for virtualization,” said Cirba co-founder and CTO Andrew Hillier during a product presentation. “It’s kind of a given right now.”

• An audience poll found that more than half — 54% — had implemented blades in production. Another 26% are researching or testing blades, while the remaining 20% aren’t doing anything with them.

• Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, gave one of the keynotes on the second morning and showed plenty of cartoons. One of the best went as follows:

• Panel 1: The boss tells Dilbert and Asok the Intern: “Our CEO has voluntarily slashed his pay from six million per year to four. “
• Panel 2: The boss continues: “In a written statement he said he wants to ’share the pain.’”
• Panel 3: The boss: “Do you feel better now?” Asok the Intern: “I make my own underpants from sandwich bags.”

• Adams also announced that the keynote would be his last public speaking engagement. He suffers from a vocal cord disorder that makes it difficult for him to speak, and at times during the presentation it was tough to hear what he was saying.

• Award for best vendor name: Enigmatec. We’re not sure if it’s pronounced e-NIG-ma-tech or e-nig-MAT-ic, but either way, it’s amusing. We were going to do a video interviewing someone from the company and just tease them about the name, but we didn’t gather enough guts to do so.