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#HPproliantDay

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I just attended a two day event that covered 240 miles, 3,000,000 square feet and a boatload of technology. 240 miles is the distance between Dallas and Houston. 3,000,000 square feet is the size of the Dallas Cowboys stadium where the event started event. A boatload of technology is what we covered along the way.

While it would be great if they could bring each and every one of you to see where we create the cool technology that goes into building a ProLiant, you all wouldn’t fit. So they did the next best thing. They brought some key industry bloggers to be your eyes and ears, and share the experience with you. The bloggers and their blogs are listed at the end of this blog.

The first day was spent at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington TX, just outside Dallas. Here they showed us how HP technology is used to run the most technologically advanced stadium in the world. Martin MacLeod did a great review of the day in his blog:

http://www.bladewatch.com/2011/01/11/hp-bloggers-event-2011-day-1-highlights/

That afternoon, they drove us the 240 miles to the Houston campus. On the trip to Houston Jeffery Powers (@Geekazine) was lamenting that Kevin Houston couldn’t come, because of the Snowpocalypse in Atlanta. That’s when he hatched the plan to connect Kevin in via Skype. He quickly realized that if it was going to be connected to the internet, he might as well live stream it for everyone that was interested.

This proved to be a very good idea. We had a running commentary from Kevin during the event, and a few questions from the approximately 30 users that tuned in live.

Here’s a list of the speakers we had, and the copies of what was streamed live during the day. (Remember, this is Jeff’s raw footage, not an HP production.)

Jim Ganthier Kicks off the day with an ISS Business Update

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11952657

and

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11952863

Next we move to the BladeSystem SWAT Teams lab. First up is Gary Thome with the State of the x86 Server Market & Key Data Center Trends

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11953313

Next up in the lab is Dan Bowers (@DanielAtHP) and James Singer reviewing HP ProLiant innovations and competitive overview

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11954183

We also got the A-Team for the Virtual Connect FlexFabric presentation Ray Nix, Mike Witkowski, Sam Lee and Chris Bradley.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11955402

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11955628

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11955919

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11956160

More info at:

www.hp.com/go/FlexFabric and www.hp.com/go/VirtualConnect

After this we went to lunch, and took a tour of Factory Express, and the Pod-Works. Pod-Works is the world’s first assembly line for the Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD). No video was shot for these sessions, but you can get information at: www.hp.com/go/factoryexpress and www.hp.com/go/pod

Then we went to the power lab for Data Center Smart Grid for Converged Infrastructure with Intelligent Power Discovery.

The information on Intelligent Power Discovery is at:

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/rackandpower/powersupplies/ipd/overview.html

There’s information on Intelligent Power Distribution Unit at:

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/rackandpower/powersupplies/ipdu/index.html

Next they brought out Ute Albert, Nigel Cook, J. Schmitz, Doug Hascall and Ron Neyland to go over Insight Management for Converged Infrastructure.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11958292

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11958679

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11958888

Lee Johns (@storageologist) wrapped up our second day with Storage for Converged Infrastructure.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11959032

Here’s a list of the bloggers that attended #HPproliantDay. Please subscribe to their tweets, and visit their blogs.