HP Discover 2011 Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE.tv
Original Content: SiliconANGLE and Wikibon filmed 3 days of videos at HP Discover in Las Vegas, NV, June 6-8, 2011. Also see videos on SiliconAngle's YouTube playlist.
HP’s ESSN EVP and GM David Donatelli said HP is better choice for converged infrastructure deployments than competitors like Cisco because it is committed to an “open standards” approach. Speaking live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011, Donatelli also discusses HP’s role in reinventing the networking market.
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HP SVP of Storage David Scott: Cloud Computing, IT-as-a-Service the Way of the Future
The uncertainty around cloud computing is gone, according to David Scott. “Ten years ago, people weren’t sure whether that transition would ever take place, but now I think people realize…everything’s going to eventually end up with delivery of IT as a service,” Scott said this week at HP Discovery in Las Vegas during a visit to theCube.
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HP VP of Marketing for Storage: To Grow Market Share, HP Takes New Approach to Converged Storage
HP currently owns about 11% of the storage market. But Tom Joyce, VP of Marketing for HP’s storage division, plans on growing HP’s storage customer base in 2011 and beyond. “We want to talk to the other 89%,” Joyce said. “That means we have to have a new approach.”
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VMware Co-President Carl Eschenbach and HP's David Scott: $45 Billion Ecosystem Created via VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Platform
Virtualization drives convergence of all the different assets in the data center, according to VMware’s Co-President of Customer Operations Carl Eschenbach. But with convergence comes disruption, “and that’s the reason the ecosystem around VMware is so large,” Eschenbach told SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011.
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HP VP of Cloud Solutions & Infrastructure Steven Dietch: HP Covers Converged Infrastructures From All The Angles
HP is taking a “comprehensive approach” to converged infrastructures, according to Steven Dietch, VP of Cloud Solutions and Infrastructure at HP. That means helping service providers build cloud infrastructures that they can rent out to their own customers, as well as selling directly to SMBs and enterprises that want to build their own private clouds.
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HP VP of Worldwide Marketing and Alliances for ESSN Bethany Mayer: Converged Infrastructures a Reality, Not Just Theoretical
More than just a theoretical concept, HP is delivering real-world converged infrastructures to customers today, said Bethany Mayer, VP of Worldwide Marketing and Alliance for HP, speaking to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas.
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HP Director of Storage Marketing Craig Nunes: HP Made Big Strides in Storage
HP has made some significant strides with its converged storage technology over the last 18 months, according to Craig Nunes, Director of Storage Marketing at HP. Now it’s time to tell the world about them, Nunes told Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011.
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Broadcom VP of Storage Strategy Greg Scherer: Focus is on Power Savings and Energy Efficiency
Broadcom VP of Storage Strategy Greg Scherer goes live inside theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stuart Miniman at HP Discover 2011 to discuss his company’s focus on power savings and energy efficient ethernet.
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Intel Storage Group GM David Tuhy: Intel Investing Heavily in Public and Private Cloud
The last five years as seen enormous growth in both public and private cloud computing and Intel has been “investing heavily to try to help” continue that growth, said David Tuhy, GM of Intel’s Storage Group, speaking live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011.
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HP Director of ISS Systems Product Marketing John Gromala: Virtual Connect a Networking “Game Changer”
Virtual Connect allows HP to be “change ready,” said John Gromala, Director of ISS Systems Product Marketing, at HP Discover 2011. That means HP can “set up a network connection and vary the servers that are connected to it, the applications that are running,” Gromala explains.
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HP CTO of ISS Paul Perez: Customers Want Converged Infrastructures "Already Integrated"
Customers used to buy beast-of-breed infrastructure components, then worry about hos to connect them. Today, customers want converged infrastructures that “are already integrated,” according to Paul Perez, HP’s CTO of ISS. Perez explains inside theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier at HP Discover 2011.
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HP’s Michael Callahan and Prime Lending’s Johnny Hernandez:
Prime Lending is the 14th largest mortgage lender in the US and is growing bigger by the day. HP’s TippingPoint product in particular has been a huge boon to how we’ve grown and how we continue to grow,” said Johnny Hernandez, Director of Information Security at Prime Lending, inside theCube at HP Discover 2011.
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MD Anderson Director of Research Information Systems Krishna Sankavaram: HP Helps MD Anderson Fight Cancer
MD Anderson is striving to improve cancer therapies and improve care, according to Krishna Sankavaram, the company’s Director of Research Information Systems. Sankavaram tells Wikibon’s Dave Vellante how HP is helping MD Anderson improve patient care by processing and analyzing over 1.5 petabytes of research data.
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HP SVP of Worldwide Marketing Dave Shirk: HP Helping Customers Juggle Cloud, Mobile and Big Data
A number of impactful IT trends are converging at the moment – cloud computing, mobile computing, and Big Data – and HP is trying to help its customers make the most of each one, according to Dave Shirk, HP’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing. Shirk went live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011 to give his take on HP’s strategy to help customers.
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HP VP of Data Center Services Rob Taylor: Services Business in Midst of “Amazing Times”
Rob Taylor, HP’s VP of Data Center Services, talks to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier about how cloud computing, mobility and real-time analytics is impacting the services market.
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IDC Analyst Michelle Bailey: Finally Seeing Realistic Journey to the Cloud
After years of talk, companies are finally starting to make realistic journeys to the cloud, according to IDC Analyst Michelle Bailey. Bailey joined Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier inside theCube to share her take on the state of HP.
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Intel’s Kirk Skaugen and HP’s Martin Fink: Customer’s Love HP’s Virtualization Technologies
From electrically isolated hard partitions to virtual partitions and virtual HP machines, customers “love HP’s virtualization technology,” according to Martin Fink, HP’s SVP of Business Critical Systems, speaking live inside theCube. Fink was joined by Kirk Skaugen, VP and GM of Intel’s Data Center Group, to discuss how the two companies are collaborating.
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HP Networking VP of Marketing Mike Banic: 3COM Compliments HP’s Organic Networking Portfolio
The acquisition of 3COM truly filled out HP’s networking portfolio, according to Mike Banic, VP of Marketing for HP’s networking group. Banic, speaking live inside theCube to Wikibon’s Stuart Miniman from the floor of HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, talked about the evolution of networking at HP.
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HP Vertica VP of Products and Business Development Colin Mahoney: Vertica More Flexible than Competing MPP Data Warehouses
Because it was built from scratch, Vertica’s columnar, MPP data warehouse is more flexible than competing offerings based on the open source, relational database Postgres, according to Colin Mahoney, VP of Products and Business Development at Vertica, now an HP company.
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HP SVP ES, Applications Services Kathy Garcia: End Users Want Instant-On Applications
End Users want instant-on applications and that’s putting a lot of pressure on CIOs to deliver, said Kathy Garcia, SVP ES, Applications Services at HP. Garcia, speaking live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas, said applications services is helping them meet those demands.
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HP Vice President of Marketing for Industry Standard Servers and Software Jim Ganthier: Converged Infrastructure Key to Delivering Instant-On Capabilities
In addition to services, HP is helping its client realize instant-on application capabilities with converged infrastructures that optimize storage, servers and networking in a single offering, according to Jim Ganthier, Vice President of Marketing for Industry Standard Servers and Software at HP.
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HP Director of Worldwide Marketing Glenn Keels: HP EcoPod Delivers on Years of “History and Leadership and Innovation
HP’s new converged data center offering, called EcoPod, is the culmination of years of effort at HP, according to Glenn Kells, Director of Worldwide Marketing at HP. “The EcoPod is really a breakthrough new category in the pod family,” Keels told SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011.
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HP Director of ISS Business Strategy Nick van der Zweep: HP Focuses on Infrastructure So Customers Can Focus on Business
Its hard to make money and run a successful business when you’re always worried about managing your IT infrastructure, said Nick van der Zweep, Director of Business Strategy for HP’s ISS group. That’s where HP comes in, he told Wikibon’s David Cahill and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011 in Las Vegas.
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HP SVP and Director of HP Labs Prith Banerjee: HP Labs and Vertica Look to Tackle “Big, Fast, Total Data”
Anybody can analyze a gigabit of data, said Prith Banerjee, SVP and Director of HP Labs. But as gigabytes become terabytes, and terabytes become petabytes, analyzing data in real-time becomes more challenging. That’s a challenge HP labs is up to, Banerjee said.
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Paycor CTO Kevin Armour: Instant Response Critical to Our Business
Kevin Armour, CTO at SaaS payroll firm Paycor, goes live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011 and tells Wikibon’s David Cahill and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier how HP is helping his company respond to its clients faster than ever before.
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HP VP of Marketing, ESS Paul Miller: We Offer Customers Complete Cloud Environment in a Single SKU
If it’s a private cloud delivered right to your doorstep you’re looking for, Paul Miller has an offer for you. Miller, HP’s VP of Marketing, ESS, went live inside theCube with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier to discuss HP’s approach to converged systems as it relates to cloud computing.
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HP Vertica Director of Product Marketing Mingsheng Hong: Vertica Helps Customers Put Their Data to Work
Vertica’s MPP, columnar data warehouse specializes in helping customers analyze large volumes of data in real-time, according to Mingsheng Hong, Director of Product Marketing at Vertica, now an HP company. In contrast, traditional data warehouses is where “data goes to die,” Hong said live inside theCube at HP Discover 2011. Hong also provides a compelling demo.
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HP Director of Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Matt Zanner: Focus on Entire Cloud Infrastructure Through Applications Stack
Matt Zanner, HP’s Director of Cloud Infrastructure Solutions, doesn’t mince words when it comes to his mission. “This is really getting to the heart of what it takes to move from just infrastructure automation with converged infrastructure all the way up through the applications stack for cloud enablement,” Zanner said, speaking to Wikibon’s Stuart Miniman live inside theCube at HP Discover in Las Vegas.
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QLogic SVP for WW Sales Rob Crawford: QLogic “Unknown Secret” to HP products
Though many customers may not be aware of it, QLogic is the “unknown secret that makes HP products great,” according to Rob Crawford. Crawford, SVP for WW Sales at QLogic, goes live inside theCube with Wikibon’s Stuart Miniman at HP Discover 2011 to explain.
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HP Director of ESS Alliances Jeff Kenyon: HP, Partners Bring Together Storage, Server, Networking in Single SKU
HP released three Virtual Systems models this week at HP Discover. Jeff Kenyon, HP Director of ESS Alliances, describes them this way: “What we’re doing there is pulling together HP storage, networking, and server together with some of our partners Microsoft and VMware into a unified system that we’re testing and delivering as a single SKU.”
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SHI Chief Technologist Henry Fastert: IaaS Is a “Logical Extension” of SHI’s Core Business
SHI is a large-scale cloud provider, so extending its offerings to include Infrastructure-as-a-Service is a logical extension of what we already do,” according to Henry Fastert, SHI’s Chief Technologist. Speaking to SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s David Cahill live inside theCube at HP Discover, Fastert explains how SHI is tackling the new endeavour.
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HP Chief Technologist of Business Critical Systems Kirk Bresniker: HP Offers Unparalleled Resources for BCS Unit
When the BCS unit at HP was looking for a way to best manage virtual and physical servers, the organization need look no further than within its own HQ. “We actually didn’t have to look too far because we actually already had technology to manage virtual and physical platforms. It was just in our UNIX environment,” said BCS Chief Technologist Kirk Bresniker.
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HP Director of Server Planning and Marketing, Business Critical Systems Michael McNerny: Mission-Critical Computing Not Going Away Any Time Soon
The mainframe days may be waning, but the need for large, mission-critical computers to keep operations going at Fortune 100 global enterprises is here to stay, according to Michael McNerny, Director of Server Planning and Marketing for HP’s Business Critical Systems group. Speaking live inside theCube, McNerny said, There’s some places in the enterprise where I still need better than general purpose I need higher levels of reliability.”
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HP Social Media Specialist Marc Farley: Integration Is Key Storage Innovation Area
The most innovative area in the storage market these days is around integration, according to HP Social Media Specialist Marc Farley, who went live inside theCube at HP Discover in Las Vegas with Wikibon’s Stuart Miniman.
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HP Director of Insight & Partner Software Jeff Carlat: HP Adds Value to Virtualized Infrastructures
HP has no plans to develop its own virtualization software any time soon, according to Jeff Carlat, Director of Insight and Partner Software at HP. Instead, the company is focusing on helping customers manage both content within virtual machines and the physical hosts, Carlat said.
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Microsoft’s Bernardo Zamora and Ed Anderson: HP and Microsoft Strengthening Partnership
Bernardo Zamora, Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Business Platform Marketing, and Ed Anderson, Microsoft’s Director of Marketing for Server and Tools, go live inside theCube at HP Discover with SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier to discuss Microsoft’s evolving relationship with HP.
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Cornell Medical College Sr. Server Architect Erik Krucker: Purpose-Built Storage Arrays Not Scalable
Erik Krucker, Sr. Server Architect at Cornell Medical College, talks with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante live inside theCube at HP Discover and shares a proof point of HP blade servers and 3PAR storage usage. 2011
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HP Director of Software Planning and Marketing Katie Curtin-Mestre: HP OS “Continues to Crank Along”
Katie Curtin-Mestre, Director of Software Planning and Marketing at HP, goes live inside theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at HP Discover to discuss HP’s business critical software strategy and future roadmap.
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HP’s Winston Prather and Randy Meyer: NonStop Platform Undergoing Transformation
Randy Meyer, Director of NonStop Product Management, Strategy & Technology at HP, and Winston Prather, Vice President & General Manager, Mission Critical Business Solutions and Nonstop Server Divisions at HP, go live inside theCube at HP Discover with Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante the transformation of the NonStop platform.
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HP Marketing Strategist for Converged Infrastructure Patrick Eitenbichler: What Converged Infrastructure Means To You
Patrick Eitenbichler, HP’s Marketing Strategist for Converged Infrastructure, goes live inside theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at HP Discover to speak about his efforts to tighten HP’s converged infrastructure message.
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