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Scale and standardize with a converged storage solution

Simplify.  Eliminate duplication of effort.  Reduce costs.  Play to your core competencies.  Standardize.  All of these are themes I have heard in my own company as we have looked at ways to improve our IT operations.  Like many companies, we try to form a plan of where our IT operations should move, motivated by making [...]

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On this day, three years ago…

On this day, three years ago, I posted my first entry on Tech Talk.  At the time, the idea was to try to contribute back to a community of technical resources whose blogs had contributed so much knowledge to me.  I had found their blog posts about VMware ESX and vCenter invaluable and the information [...]

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Congrats to Blake Loring, the winner of the HP Proliant Microserver

I wanted to formally extend my congratulations to Blake Loring, the winner of the Tech Talk Giveway – a HP Proliant Microserver.  Blake was selected from 33 entries submitted on my blog.  The selection process was completely random.  I wrote a MySQL view with a seeded rand() statement to select the winner a week before [...]

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Win this HP Proliant Microserver for your home or business

From my week at HP Discover, HP and Ivy Worldwide have awarded me one HP Proliant MicroServer to give away to ONE lucky reader.  So, I want to award the MicroServer to someone who can come up with an  innovative way to use the server in their home or office.  There are just two steps [...]

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Intel Cloud Builders creating reference architectures for the cloud

At Intel, engineers have been hard at work creating reference architectures with its partners utilizing Intel technologies through their Cloud Builders program. Last week, a group of bloggers, including myself, had the chance to sit down with Billy Cox, Director of Cloud Software Strategy at Intel in the Blogger’s Studio during HP Discover. Cox discussed [...]

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A potential service provider’s take on CloudSystem

Day to day, I work for a telephone company, though we are really much more – we sell cable TV, wireless, landline, Internet, security and home automation.  [Disclaimer - these are my views and not theirs.]  We have tossed around the idea of becoming a public cloud provider more than once.  Last week, during HP [...]

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DiscoveringHP.com > a meta blog of HP Discover coverage

Fellow blogger Mauricio Freitas has created the http://www.discoveringhp.com website and he has rounded up all of the coverage from the bloggers during the HP Discover 2011 conference.  I encourage you to head over and check out all of the posts about the event.  The posts are grouped by day of the conference and there is a good bit of [...]

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Archiving Solutions: StoreOnce + Tape (Recap HP Discover #3839)

During the introduction to session 3839, we were all given a disclaimer by the presenter – a disclaimer that this sessions would be a very tape heavy session.  Sadly, I was hoping for some good information about the StoreOnce product.  But I should have keyed in on the word archiving in the title, because the [...]

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Insight Control for vCenter (Recap HP Discover #4718)

A couple years ago at VMworld, HP announced a new plugin for vCenter, called Insight Control for vCenter, which pulled from HP System Insight Manager and on-board intelligence of ESX host Proliant servers and displayed system status within vCenter.  Since the introduction, the Insight Control for vCenter package has grown to include a second plugin [...]

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HP Discover Closing Session Day 4 Liveblog

I have found my seat and people are streaming in to find their seats.  The closing keynote is about to begin in a few minutes.  We are currently listening to a live DJ mixing video and music on stage.  You may also watch a live stream from the event at http://www.hp.com/go/discover. Live updates will appear [...]

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