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Red Hat Summit is coming soon!

Red Hat Summit is June 23rd to 26th and is set to be a great event, you can register for the event here: I will be watching the coverage online, what I’ll be looking out for is announcements on the journey towards innovation in OpenStack, DevOps and empowering both business and IT to bring together the right combination of technology and technology services to deliver an end to end solution for transformation and enhancement. Do check out the agenda here and the available training or certifications that are on offer and consider that attending these events is not only an investment in technical aspect of your career, it’s the people you meet, the connections you make and the ability I always find to ask questions which I might not feel comfortable asking directly of my colleagues/service provider.  The ability to grab someone and say, I’m having this problem have you seen it before? The official coverage lives here: Red Hat Summit blog: http://summitblog.redhat.com/ Red Hat Blog: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog I’ll be watching both online and re-tweeting content so follow me on twitter:...

HP Discover Las Vegas summary

HP Discover was last week and judging by the coverage it went very well and I’ve heard some great feedback through colleagues. I’ve just started a new role as a Software Architect for a large enterprise and was therefore unable to attend.  The official blog lives here and covered it end to end, I did watch when I could (I’ve been between client sites last week). The high level bullet points for you: HP Helps Customers Accelerate the Move to All-Flash Data Centers – further enhancements of their HP 3PAR StoreServ offering, which brings new levels of scale and performanace at a lower operational cost. HP Unveils Developer Focused Testing Solution to Help Businesses Accelerate Application Delivery – this is about creating testing solutions to meet customer requirements end to end, very cool. DreamWorks Animation Selects HP to Automate Its IT Infrastructure – leveraging HP experience and best practice to further automate and enhance DreamWorks IT infrastructure for a more agile and scalable, this will be transformational in terms of the ability to adjust the IT landscape around not only your business but projects and programmes. Updates to HP Helion Portfolio Help Customers Unlock Value of a Hybrid Infrastructure – illustrating their further commitment to bringing and enhancing Cloud and Hybrid business solutions to their customers. There were also further announcements to enhancements to HP OneView 2.0 which will be a welcome to their customers, I’ve heard great things from colleagues about it, so it will be interesting to speak to them about these enhancements. HP Discover is in London this year in December – www.hp.com/go/discover to keep updated and...

Servergy Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation

 http://servergy.com/servergy-joins-the-openpower-foundation/ DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cleantech IT innovations company Servergy, Inc., announced today the company has joined IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA, Samsung Electronics, Tyan and Suzhou PowerCore Technology Company in the OpenPOWER Foundation – an open development alliance that makes IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture available under license. Servergy will collaborate within the Foundation on opportunities leveraging Servergy’s clean and green technology on Power architecture with scale-up and scale-out capability for Big Data, caching, streaming, cloud workload, and distributed storage application in data centers. “We are proud to be an IBM Business Partner and to join the OpenPOWER Foundation” Servergy joins the OpenPOWER Foundation to help drive industry advancement of high-performance, clean and green Power Architecture in the data center. The company intends to extend its product line by developing future OpenPOWER-compliant systems based on IBM’s POWER microprocessors, allowing new levels of performance and capability in Servergy’s Cleantech Server class of clean and green Linux on Power System server products. I’m genuinely excited to see Servergy joining the OpenPOWER Foundation, that future offerings might include an OpenPOWER offering is great news for existing POWER customers in terms of choice and drives further innovation to the POWER...

Servergy Cleantech Server offers a new way ahead...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140318613/en/Servergy-Announces-Strategic-Channel-Alliances-Avnet-Ingram#.UyjpoMtF3mI DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cleantech IT innovations company Servergy, Inc. – recently described as a “revolutionary disruptor” for the coming “datacenter storm” by Gartner, the top global IT research and advisory firm – today announced strategic channel alliances with Fortune 100 companies Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) and Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) to distribute Servergy’s new Cleantech Servers® to their resellers. Servergy’s new Cleantech Servers® are a new class of clean and green Linux servers that deliver an hyper-efficient platform with extremely high I/O and density that’s very reliable, secure and scalable for cloud, big data, caching, streaming, distributed storage, networking and embedded applications. “Servergy is proud to be working with Avnet and Ingram Micro. Servergy offers channel partners an exciting new class of clean and green Linux servers that literally help pay for themselves,” said Bill Mapp, founder, chairman and CEO, Servergy. “Our channel program is grounded on a very channel friendly sales engagement model designed to ease the costs and complexities of doing business together.” It’s always great to read about new infrastructure offerings, new solutions aiming to create opportunity and deliver value, the power savings, scalability and performance statistics are impressive. I’m off to read more about the work that Servergy are doing and to better understand their...

Talking about Enterprise 2013

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/enterprise/?lnk=ushpcs3 “Bringing together the System z® Technical University, Power Systems™ Technical University and an Executive Summit into one premier event ” Enterprise2013 is ideal for business and IT executives and IT professionals and practitioners who know that leading in today’s global economy requires an IT infrastructure that is efficient, capable of responding quickly to changing market conditions and needs, enables collaboration and informed decisions, and ensures the security, privacy, and availability of company and customer data. Power Systems and System z are platforms that I have been making efforts to learn more about, Enterprise 2013 in Florida looks like a great opportunity learn more about Power Systems and System z solutions, as well as gain certifications and participate in the labs or participate in the networking opportunities. You can find out more about the event for IT executives and IT Professionals here:...

IBM investment in new cloud center in Barcelona...

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/42108.wss BARCELONA, – 30 Sep 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced today an $8 million investment in a new cloud center in Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona. It is the first cloud center in Spain and the 26th from IBM in the world. IBM’s new center is located in the same facility as the “la Caixa” data processing center. From this center, IBM will provide its cloud services to clients worldwide. The opening ceremony today will be attended by Felip Puig, Councillor for Enterprise and Employment of the Generalitat of Catalunya, the regional governing body of Catalonia, Marta Martínez, Country General Manager, IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel, and Juan María Nin, CaixaBank vice-president and CEO. This opening of this new center confirms IBM strong commitment to cloud technology. IBM has said it is on track to generate about $7 billion revenue by 2015 from cloud computing of which $3 billion is net new. The new cloud will offer a wide range of infrastructure services and cloud platforms. Cloud solutions from this center will be tailored to the business needs of both large companies and public entities and small and medium enterprises. “The opening of this cloud center in Spain is another step in our company’s strong commitment to this technology,” explains Marta Martínez, the general manager of IBM Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel. “This will surely help us drive innovation in companies and institutions of all sizes. We are proud of the fact that we can provide technological services from Barcelona to clients from any part of the world. This puts our technology experts and professionals at the worldwide vanguard and proves that our country can successfully compete in an increasingly global market.” It’s great to see IBM’s commitment and investment in cloud technology, I wonder if this will not drive opportunities in the cloud services space for IBM and further their innovation for the Emea region, we’ll have to see., I’m off to read up...

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