Conference Wrap-up - Goodbye HP TechForum 2010

As is sit waiting for my final session to begin, I’m looking back at my first TechForum and finding myself enthusiastic about some of HPs new product and solutions offerings.

Also a little concerned about others (Voice).  Sadly lacking in this week’s sessions and barely visible in the Expo is HP’s Enterprise Phone System VCX.  If it wasn’t for an off-hand comment during a Unified Communications session and a 3 foot wide section of wall (and a small shelf with (3) 35xx phones) on the Expo floor, I wouldn’t have even realized that HP had its own voice offering.  In fact, there was more space dedicated to its joint work with Avaya than there was for its own Enterprise SIP Phone System.  Hopefully this was an oversight and not a sign of things to come for HP Voice.

 

Overall though, I have to give props to HP for putting on a great conference.  The level of planning was obvious in how smoothly things were run.  Looking forward to coming back again next year.

 

Soon, I’ll be on my way to I-15 for my drive home.  See you all soon.  And Shane, you lost the bet, I blogged every day of the conference so now you owe me lunch on Monday.  J

 

 

Goodbye Vegas!

Matt

Afternoon Session - Day 3 -- Client Architecture Futures - Work and Personal use of a converged device.

Client Architecture Futures – Work and Personal use of a converged device.

 

Common enterprise concept of Bring your own PC. 

How do we separate and support personal and business use on a single device while keeping the corporate network secure?

How about taking advantage of the fact that many users have faster home PCs than they have on their desk at work?

HR and Legal concerns are often more difficult to work through than the technical ones…

“He who has the money makes the rules” – whichever side “pays” for the computer gets more of the choice.  Some sort of company stipend middle ground perhaps.

 

Caution Points lie around  - Risk Mgmt, HR/Legal, Applications, Service.

 

Once you decide to do it, how do you secure it?

Several concepts and solutions out there including Citrix’s XenClient solution for providing virtualization on a laptop or a desktop to provide multiple personas.

HPLABS Researching some cool ideas in this arena.

 

Matt

 

Final Day

Just wrapping up the 1st session of the day discussing the future of iSCSI SANs.
Comparing the FCoE options vs. iSCSI over 10GB Ethernet.
Also the blurring of the lines between NAS and SAN.


Now I must find coffee....

Roger Daltrey Live

concert time

Time for Roger Daltrey and then The Goo Goo Dolls.

Afternoon Keynote - Day 2

Getting ready for the Keynote Address. Not sure what they have in store for us today but the live band is Rockin again while we wait.

Matt

Afternoon Update

Back after lunch for the VMware presentation re: Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications (SQL, Exchange, Oracle, SAP)

Skipped the late morning session to walk the Expo Hall. Saw some good demos from HP networking, Microsoft.

Talked to the BlackBerry folks about their Mobile Voice Server which can tie your BES server and you PBX together (albeit somewhat clumsily).  Reminds me of a really expensive version of SwitchVox's iPhone app.

Also saw the new Proliant DL980G7. This server is a BEAST!

Matt