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

Day 2 begins with a World Cup win!

Almost forgot to post this morning.  Too busy sitting on the edge of my seat (in a Citrix Lab) watching the USA beat Algeria 1-0.
Now back to setting up a Citrix XenDesktop environment. Lots of waiting for installers to run. Must have patience to get this setup. 

End of Day 1

One final session coming up re: HP and Microsoft Unified Communications.
Been a busy day here at the Forum. Without much time between sessions there hasn't been much downtime at all. I should complain to whomever setup my schedule but, alas, it was me...

Matt

Afternoon Session 2

Good session on Exchange 2010.
Time for more on Open Standards Networking info.
Hoping to hear more about the new product strategies and the convergence of 3COM / H3C / ProCurve product lines. But we shall see.

BTW - blogging from a blackberry makes your thumbs very tired.

Matt

Afternoon session

After scarfing a quick lunch the afternoon sessions are beginning soon. First up- Exchange 2010 CAS (Client Access Server) More food for thought.
Hopefully this session will help define some common and cool functionality in Exchange 2010 that is being used out there.

Matt

Hands on Lab - Migrating to Comware 5

Using HP's Lab Manager, we are walking through configuring Routers nd switches running Comware 5 OS.
Cool stuff so far!

matt

HP new product announcements

Announcing more than 10 new servers at the show this week.

HP Converged Infrastructure Requirements:
Virtualized - Resilient - Open - Orchestrated - Modular

New:
Integrity Superdome 2
HP Bladesystem - will take 1TB of memory!
HP Proliant G7 - DL580, DL585, DL980.
New version of Datacenter Smart Grid

New Networking:
Goal to transform networking.
Discussion about HP moving to HP Networking throughout its global infrastructure. Better performance, lower TCO, and Open Standards, went from 9 mgmt tools to a single pane of glass.

New Storage:
X9000 NAS. Single namespace up to 16 petabytes. Yikes!
HP StoreOnce - data deduplication.  One unified architecture for all de-dupe use cases.

Bladesystem Matrix - very cool private cloud provisioning and management tool.

Matt

keynote speakers today

1st up Dave Donatelli, HP.

Day 2 Keynote

Starting in a few more minutes..
Live band warming up the crowd at 8am. Pretty good too.
Looking forward to an educational and eventful day.

Matt

first look at the Expo Hall

HP's Unified Communications Platform
Aka 3COM VCX.
Tom Sammons representing. Showing off the new 3500 series SIP phones.

More from the Keynote

Now up - Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks Animation.
Which means lots of Shrek clips.
"not long ago it would've seemed odd for me to be addressing a technology conference. But nowadays technology is integral to what we do. " (paraphrased)

Did you know that Dreamworks has released 3 3D movies already? Its like a merger between an art institute and NASA. At Dreamworks they are all CG all the time. Typical film is 130,000 frames with hundreds of layers each.

Technology has truly become our paintbrush.

50 million render hours
100 TB of data
10,000 compute cores
For a single film!!

Dreamworks moved from SGI to linux on HP to take advantage of commodity computing.

Great preview clips of Mega Mind and KungFu Panda 2.

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Jake Johansen Emcee.
After a kick-butt 3D opening sequence.

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Opening Keynote Stage.
HP TechForum 2010
Can't wait to see what the 3D glasses are for.

Matt Bryan
Sent from my Blackberry Storm.
Please excuse any typos, my thumbs are tired...

Just walked into the Opening keynote session at HP TechForum 2010. Feels like a concert atmosphere. Packed house too.

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