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HP Discover 2012 – Session Catalog online

With over 800 sessions to choose from, HP DISCOVER 2012 is the showcase technology event for business and IT professionals to learn, connect, and grow. While we work to finalize the complete list of sessions for the event, we wanted to provide a preview of sessions that will be featured at HP Discover 2012. If you’ve [...] [...]

HP Discover summary

The last day of HP Discover was spent walking around the booths speaking to the different vendors and HP blogging team to discuss the event, it was great to provide feedback and discuss the highlights for me. So what memories resound when discussing HP Discover? The Keynote from Meg Whitman – very much an introduction, from my [...] [...]

Analysis of HP Discover 2011 – day 2

http://www.hp.com/go/discovervienna Day 2 of the HP Discover Vienna event was well received with a mixture of keynote sessions, in depth customer sessions and an opportunity to meet some of the sponsors/vendors at their booths.  The highlights for me were: The keynote by Dr Mike Lynch which not only explained the background to the Autonomy value proposition and [...] [...]

veeam continues to innovate virtual infrastructure offering

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/veeam-brings-its-data-protection-to-windows-server-hyper-v-2011-11-30 News Facts: – Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, now offers Windows Server Hyper-V protection as well as Microsoft Hyper-V Server protection with Veeam Backup & Replication v6. The new version offers a single solution for fast, efficient, reliable, and affordable data protection of multi-hypervisor environments [...] [...]

HP Discover coverage day 1

Backstage coverage of the event lives here, you can also follow hash tag HPDiscover on Twitter. I flew into Vienna to attend HP’s Discover 2011 conference which covered the extensive portfolio of HP products and services. I was looking forward to their announcements to see what they were working on and to ensure that the innovation [...] [...]

BuildMyVirtual our new app is on its way

There are many build solutions, many levels of automation and interactivity all aimed at emotive subject of the one click deployment, in some cases, with the right technology, the right processes and investment, we are indeed there, for many we aren’t. For many we rely on spreadsheets and provisioning forms to meet requirements for billing and [...] [...]

HP continues innovation in the backup/storage space

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hp-bridges-human-information-and-extreme-data-to-drive-customer-insight-foresight-action-2011-11-29?reflink=MW_news_stmp VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Nov 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — HP HPQ +4.49% today extended its Information Optimization portfolio with new solutions that help enterprises turn information and ideas into insights to drive better decision making. An explosion of data from new sources is challenging traditional methods for storing and analyzing information. For example, only [...] [...]

Changing times need not be difficult

I was having a conversation with a PM who works in Edinburgh deploying servers for an enterprise, I was asking his views on some concepts and issues which I have been discussing with colleagues in the server and middleware space.  The market is changing, with Converged Infrastructure, with Instant-On-Enterprise, we’re aiming to reduce complexity, improve [...] [...]

Day 1 – HP Discover Vienna

I’ve flown out to Vienna to attend HP’s Discover 2011 event. It will be exciting to see what HP announcements there are and to refresh our knowledge about what is going on in the industry, what their road map is and what range of technologies they have to aid their customers and the end user [...] [...]