Tech Talk

HP is looking to make it easy for companies to step on the cloud. They are offering a solution called HP CloudStart that will deliver a fully functional cloud onto your site in 30 days or less.  For companies looking to give cloud technology a spin, CloudStart is an easy first step with the ability [...]

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 [...]

(This went out a little earlier than I wanted, but since its already in my RSS, gonna go ahead and release it.) I was fortunate to have been invited to HP Discover 2011 by Ivy Worldwide along with a group of other independent bloggers.  I am gracious for the opportunity to attend and blog about [...]

One of the more impressive sessions that I have attended at HP Discover was the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Network Security” presented by HP Senior Technologist John Wieland.  Not only was the information usable and understandable for anyone in the room, being a relative security novice, I appreciated that Wieland made great lengths that members of his [...]