Tech Talk

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]