The other day I had a "snippet" from our HP Discover Blogger coffee talk with David Scott and Siamak Nazari.  I'll have a few more podcasts from the coffee talk and their will be more details they gave on HP 3PAR - some really interesting stuff that I'm excited to share.   I also had Stephen Spellicy, Director of Product Management for HP Autonomy Enterprise Backup Solutions with us.  At HP Discover, we announced HP Data Protector 8 and Stephen answered a few questions that the bloggers had. 

What's new with HP Data Protector 8?

It's a bit of a catch-22 that HP is such a big company. We included the new Data Protector 8 news in our press conference but there was so much other news that I was pretty sure most people didn't really get what we announced.  So before I share with you the audio from the coffee talk where Stephen answered questions from the bloggers, here's the highlights of what's new:

(See the blog post for the details)

I was so busy with activities at HP Discover, that the only session I had time to attend is one I co-presented with my pal and colleague Stephen Spellicy - session TB2838, Delivering data protection for your own virtualized private cloud - in case it gets posted to the HP Discover website. 

The one session I really wanted to get to was the Innovation Theatre session that David Scott did titled Flash optimized storage and the link to DNA, Porsche, and heavy machinery.  I was told the Innovation Theatre sessions were going to be like TedTalks.  I also knew a bit about what David was going to talk about and have always wanted to hear him talk about why 3PAR used that color yellow that they became famous for - and David was going to talk about that.  Well, good news - I found the session on our HP Discover Live website and have it here for you.

I also did a webcast with David and in the details of this blog post, I have embedded that - so check it out!

I'm back home and while HP Discover was exhausting, I wish we were still there in the company of the 30+ independent bloggers we hosted.  I had a great time with them and as always is the case, meeting with such a smart group of bloggers helps me to think deeper. 

Blogger coffee talk

One of the things we offer for attending bloggers is the option to meet with HP executives and experts to go deep on topics.  At our storage coffee talk, I was able to have David Scott, Sr. VP and GM of HP Storage and Siamak Nazari, HP Fellow, HP 3PAR architect, and an original employee at 3PAR talk to our bloggers.  Instead of giving you a single 60 minute podcast, I pulled out part of the discussion they had about the new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array. 

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

Discover momentum reached peak speed on Thursday (can this really be the last day already?) with a rich roster of storage-focused session. Here’s a quick snapshot of several sessions I attended -- with a business and technical focus on HP 3PAR.

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

Wednesday was time to get down to business at HP Discover with a full line up of sessions that together are telling a compelling story about how HP is accelerating the next era of storage.

In no particular order, here’s a quick look at the storage track keynote and sessions I attended today.

Yesterday we had our press conference and finally sent public with our news.  It's a proud moment for a lot us here who have been working toward the announcements we made yesterday and also a day of relief.  In my blog post yesterday talking about the new all-flash HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 and StoreOnce VSA, I didn't talk about a couple of other pieces of the announcement that I want to quickly highlight today... because I need to get down to the Blogger Lounge here at Discover.

I have two ChalkTalks, one with enhancements to HP 3PAR StoreServ delivered via a new version of 3PAR OS and the HP StoreEver MSL6480 - head over to the full blog post to check them out.

By Melissa Saegert Elicker, social media editor, HP Storage

It it’s June in Las Vegas, it must be HP Discover. I’m lucky enough to be here this week to attend some keynotes and sessions and share what I learn with you. 

As things kicked off today, I attended the Innovation Theater session given by David Scott, Senior Vice President and General Manager, HP Storage. The topic?  Flash-optimized storage and the link to DNA, Porsche and Heavy Machinery.

By Kate Davis, @KateAtHP, WW Product Marketing Manager, HP StoreVirtual Storage

Many marketing campaigns over the years have touted the power of “and” within their product. Because no one wants to choose between two or more things, the ability to have all features is meaningful. In HP’s vision of virtual storage, which we began expressing last year, we said that our strategy is to grow our portfolio of VSAs (virtual storage appliances) across the Converged Storage portfolio and give you that power of AND. . . by using both StoreVirtual VSA AND StoreOnce VSA in the same infrastructure. 

It's guaranteed to be a busy week for HP Storage at Discover and we kicked off the fun this morning with our press conference.  Let me briefly tell you about what we announced and we'll dive deeper into the details over the next few weeks. 

HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450

A few weeks ago I talked about the SPC-1 benchmark results we had with an all-flash based HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400. As impressive as those results were, today we announced the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450 - an all flash-based 3PAR array.  While we don't have SPC-1 results for the new 7450, based on internal testing we've done, we've about doubled the performance of the 7450 compared to the 7400. 

I've already posted how you can watch our storage press conference in a few hours from now so be sure to tune in at 8:30 AM PDT to hear all the news!  I'll certainly have a few blog posts over the next few days helping sort out all of the news. 

One of the things I'm excited to see at HP Discover is the Innovation Theatre presentations.  I've heard people describe these as a "TEDTalks-style" presentation and I think these will be really interested.  I've heard a bit about the one David Scott will do and I know he'll talk about why 3PAR used that yellow color in the 3PAR StoreServ array - should be fun.

See the full blog post for a detailed schedule.