By Jeremy Arnold @JezAtHP
9am PST on Monday 23rd August brings the very first HP Networking TechDay (#HPNetworkDay). We’ve wanted to do one of these for some time, ever since Calvin Zito from StorageWorks started them off in October 2009. HP have since hosted a BladeSystem day and another StorageWorks Day. Now it’s our turn. With ProCurve (the #2 Networking Vendor) and the acquisition of 3COM (the #3 Networking vendor) has, according to the recent Magic Quadrant on Enterprise LAN from Gartner, created a “Networking Powerhouse” and we want to share some news.
So what’s happening??
Monday morning brings a focus on our Enterprise family. Jay Mellman, Paul Congdon, Dom Wilde from HP Networking, and Mike Witkowski from the Virtual Connect team are going to focus on HP Converged Infrastructure, and how important Networking is including trends and standards. This will be followed by a walk-through of HP’s Intelligent Management Center (which provides multi-vendor network management), and a session on standards.
The afternoon focuses on the Midmarket (E and V-series) as well as a tour of the Shake’n’Bake Lab. Tuesday finishes with a Security overview, and a look at Unified Communications and Collaboration from convergence solutions architect, Manfred Arndt.
So who’s coming??
Here's a look at the bloggers that are coming
Alex Williams is an Editor at ReadWriteWeb which provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis and began in April 2003. Alex also manages ReadWriteEnterprise and ReadWriteCloud and has worked as a writer and editor for a number of daily newspapers and magazines
Andy McCaskey is currently CEO at Review Communications, Inc. where he produces new media production and distribution on technical topics for conferences. McCaskey has experience in engineering and sales in the technology industry throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Ethereal Mind provides a collection of technical and personal blog posts concerning Network Engineers. Greg Ferro works freelance as a Network Architect and Senior Engineer/ Designer, mostly in the United Kingdom and previously in Asia Pacific region. He is Currently focusing on Data Centre, Security and Application Networking technologies and spending a lot of time pondering design models, building operational excellence and creating business outcomes.
Greg has recently started a Networking Podcast at http://packetpushers.net and will also be Liveblogging the event at http://etherealmind.com/hp-networking-tech-day-liv
For many years, Jeremy Gaddis has been employed by a post-secondary educational institution in Indiana where he designs and manages high-speed campus networks and database administration. Jeremy has been a Network Admin of ProCurve switches.
John is the owner of his own business that provides technology services to several thousand SMBs, he writes and publishes a newsletter for those customers/clients and blogs at Absolutely Windows covers Windows news, hardware products (enterprise as well as consumer) and information relevant to small and medium businesses.
There are also several HP tweeters at the event:
Finally, if you want to keep up with the event we'll be using the hashtag #HPNetworkDay on Twitter. Here's a link that will search Twitter for all the tweets using our hashtag and here’s the Twitter List HPNetworkDay. We’ll also be posting the occasional update to this blog – so check back here from time to time.
Please note that HP does pay for their travel, accommodations, and meals but does not require the bloggers to write anything.
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