HP Technology@Work 2011 in Madrid Day 1 so far

We had keynote presentations from the HP team comprised of Mark Payne, Frederic Dussart, Jose Maria De La Torre, Alfons Buxo and Richard Curran from Intel.

Initial presentations were about the current issues facing CIOs, changing and evolving business models, increasing technological advancements and a changing work force. The need for an always on enterprise, one which keeps up with the trends of the marketplace. The biggest challenge being IT sprawl and the ongoing 70% spend on keeping the lights on with the remainder on investment, affecting the ability of IT to deliver the level of service and agility that the business needs, which is where the concepts of Converged Infrastructure can help. Having the right tools in place to be able to deploy infrastructure on demand through one portal using industry standard tools, technologies and best practices.

It was interesting to see the slides and hear about how HP had continued the innovation of their Converged Infrastructure offering from 2009 through to 2010 and the present day with references to their 3PAR and networking acquisitions. There was mention about HP offering a portfolio of products and services to offer a leading Cloud Ready Converged Infrastructure composed of carefully select products which could be centrally managed through the one portal to bring virtualization of the network, server and storage, resilience built in, orchestration delivering self service and management, with a modular approach allowing you to select the bits you need to get started and grow the infrastructure with your business.

The Richard Curran keynote about Cloud Computing was interesting and I liked in particular the statement that IT needs to get involved in the cloud message and projects which it does. I’ve always thought like the simple concepts like server support, if we’re not involved, below the radar to speak, we’re not influencing the decision, working as a team and delivering value. When it comes to cloud, to data center migrations or virtualization and change in the enterprise, we need to lead the discussions lead the message and the concepts to be a part and an innovator, not a business unit left behind or absorbed by the change.

Some interesting statements were made, by 2015 there will be more than 1 billion online users with more than 15 billion devices connected consuming an estimate 1 Zetabyte of internet traffic, rightly so, as we onboard more users, the demand for infrastructure for storage, for capacity as well as services and applications continues to grow as does the demand for data center physical, virtual or mobile. The conversation moved on to delays to cloud adoption around security, process and standards or perceived risk, how the cloud as an industry and a service provider needs to answer and work with these to deliver an approach on a per customer and industry basis. There was mention about the new Xeon E7 processors which bring enhanced scalability, flexibility and reliability, borrowing some features from the Itanium processor, and discussion on Intel investment in Fibre Channel over Ethernet with their Converged adaptor.

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