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Last week I did a podcast from NAB talking about Linear Tape File System (LTFS) with one of our long-time tape gurus Mark Fleischhauer.  The next morning after I talked to Mark, I got a demo in our booth of some new software that we'll have available soon that allows you to use LTFS on Windows systems. 

The tape is dead FUD won't go away until those that like to proclaim it's early demise are - well, I'll just say gone.  LTFS is a fantastic proof point of how tape will continue to exist long into the future. 

So check out the demo of our LTFS software on Windows.



I dropped in to Microsoft Management Summit last week for an afternoon but got a boatload of content while I was there.  This is the last of my VirtualSystem for Microsoft posts.  I have two podcasts - one with a couple of HP guys and the other with Mark Hassall. 

In the first podcast, I talked with Paul Gavin who is a Microsoft Virtualization Solution Manager at HP and Jose Betancourt, an HP pre-sales architect.  We hit a number of topics but focused on customer requirements for building a Microsoft-based private cloud. 



The second podcast is with Mark Hassall from Microsoft. Mark works in the Windows Server & Management Group and is responsible for the virtualization and management initiative working with HP. Mark and I talk about the work that HP and Microsoft are doing together around virtualization and management. 

I spent the week in Vegas at NAB but I was able to pop over to the Venetian on Wednesday and spend the afternoon at the Microsoft Management Summit.  I had a post earlier in the week called HP at Microsoft Management Summit.  In this post, I have a couple of podcasts focused on the HP VirtualSystem VS3 for Microsoft.

In the first, I talk to Maribeth Marcello, the worldwide product manager for the VirtualSystem VS3.  Maribeth and I talk about positioning of the VS3 and what customers should consider it. 

Here's the first podcast with Maribeth:

Next I talked to Dung Hoang - Dung is an engineer on the VirtualSystem team and was involved in building the MMS Hands-on-lab infrastructure that ran all the HOL during the event.  Dung had told me that they expected to have run 42,000 VMs in total and during the peak usage of HOLs, there were over 3000 concurrent VMs running on the VirtualSystem Monday morning just before lunch.

Here's the podcast with Dung.

This blog post has been re-published due to a technical issue.  You can find it here: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/HP-VirtualSystem-VS3-for-Microsoft-podcas...

NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) is wrapping up tomorrow; today at NAB I focused on LTFS doing both a podcast and getting a video demo of using LTFS in a Microsoft Windows environment.  You'll have to wait until next week to see the demo because I have to edit the video on my Z600 Workstation which I did take with me to Las Vegas.

The podcast I have is very interesting - I had a great time talking to Mark Fleischhauer.  As you'll hear, Mark has been a tape technologist for a long time.  We talked about the new life that tape has been given because of LTFS and I think we pretty well smash the "tape is dead" conversations I see about once a week. 

Here's the podcast with Mark.

I'm at NAB and got a demo of Watchitoo.  They are a partner of HP's and are in our booth.  As a video blogger, I'm pretty excited about their technology.  I just recorded a short video from their platform - here it is.  I hope to have a podcast or video in the next few days going deeper on Watchitoo.

While I’m in Las Vegas at NAB, less than a mile away Microsoft Management Summit is also happening.  I’ll drop in there later this week but I wanted to share some news with you, hot off the press.  I have a podcast with HP 3PAR product manager Kiran Sreenivasamurthy talking about his presentation at MMS along with a part of the news.  In the podcast, Kiran talks to me about the newly announced integration we have of HP 3PAR with Microsoft System Center 2012. 

Today at MMS, Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center 2012.  HP also has a few things we're announcing.   You'll have to read the blog post to get the details but here's the podcast with Kiran: 

If you've been reading the blog over the last few days, you know that I'm at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Las Vegas. Just in case you haven't seen those blog posts, here's a link to the two blogs I've written talking about NAB. Today I have a quick blog post to point you to a few things happening today (especially for NAB attendees) and a very cool video I have of a demo I got yesterday.

Today at NAB, I have a great deal for you!

HP has what promises to be a great session titled “Better than HAL? – The impact of new meaning based computing on Media industry” Tuesday at 1 PM in session room S224.  HP Autonomy CEO and co-founder Dr. Mike Lynch and HP Storage VP of Marketing, Strategy and Operations Tom Joyce will lead the session with special guest Lincoln Wallen, head of R&D at DreamWorks Animation.

So what's my deal? I have a pretty generous supply of beer tickets for the NAB Beer Garden (sponsored by HP - thank you very much!).  Join me at the session today, find me and say hello and you can have a beer on me.  I shouldn't be too hard to find - I'll be wearing my HPStorageGuy logo-ware and will sit toward the front of the room.

I'll also have another option that I'll talk about on Twitter - so if you're at NAB, follow my Twitter stream and you'll have a great chance to have a beer on me!

UPDATE on 4/16:  Our theatre sessions are being streamed live on the internet on our Facebook page.  I watched most of the sessions today and it's some very good stuff.  Check it out!

The other day I did an initial post talking about what HP would be doing at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show next week.  Today, before I head out to Las Vegas for the like the sixth time in eight months, I wanted to focus on the exhibit halls, specifically what HP will have in our booth. 

I know in this space, you probably care most about where in the digital process we have solutions, so here's a look at that:

• Asset Management: Autonomy (media bin), Avid (interplay MAM), North Plains (Telescope),  Gorilla Technologies (Gorilla Enterprise MAM), the HP Digital Library Project (Paul McCartney Library), and Vizrt (Ardome MAM)
• Editing: HP will highlight its file based editing solution with partners ATTO Technology and Quantum StorNext which includes HP infrastructure
• Ingest and Play-out: HP will feature presentations from Miranda Technologies and their ITX solution that is based on HP servers and HP X9320 storage. 
• Content Distribution: HP will feature Envivio and Concurrent who both offer Content distribution for VOD, web distribution, to manage video delivery to any device.
• Media Archive: HP will also feature SGL Broadcast (Flashnet), TOLIS backup/recovery software, Cache-A, Panasonic, Crossroads, and Storage DNA all integrated to HP Tape LTO5 and LTFS 
• Other Key Highlights in HP booth: HP will feature the Aurasma application which turns the real world into the virtual world and expands monetization possibilities to virtually any-where, HP will show HP’s media cloud, and we will be highlighting our new line of workstation systems in the booth. 

Attachments:

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EMC made an announcement earlier today around a product called VSPEX; I haven't had a lot of time to look at it but basically looks like they're working with the channel to offer reference architecture of a converged stack.  Of course it's all based on EMC hardware though they claim they have reference architectures for other components to be something other than VCE-based Cisco servers and networking. 

What got my attention was a tweet I saw from Dave Vellante.  Dave is the CEO co-founder of Wikibon.org and co-host of The Cube.  I've got the conversation here - be sure to read from the bottom up.

I was responding to Dave to make sure that he knows that HP CloudSystem doesn't have to be based on HP servers, storage, and networking.  Dave was surprised by that so I reached out to Nick van der Zweep, Director of Business Strategy in our CloudSystem business to get the details. I'll summarize a few things that Nick and I discussed:

• HP CloudSystem DOES support multiple non-HP components.  Customers will get the most integration and automation by using a complete HP stack.   For example - if customers use non-HP storage, they lose the integration we have with Storage Provisioning Manager that simplifies provisioning storage.  See my previous blog post on SPM that includes a demo of SPM. For non-HP storage, a storage admin would have to provision a LUN and give that to the server admin so they can then use that within the CloudSystem environment.