Authored by: David Kling
Keynote Summaries:
Jim Whitehurst, (CEO Red Hat) started things off with a RH version of creating value for customers… a good compliment to HP’s Better business outcomes. He focused on 3 reasons why SW is not optimized: SW biz models with too many features (bloat), Complexity & IT Project failure. This mapped nicely with HP’s research that shows innovation is being stalled due to 70% of IT dollars being spent on running the current IT environment and only 30% left to spend on innovation. Red Hat’s answer? WTF?=What’s the FIX.
The 3 things:
1) Better business models from IT vendors that are customer centric
2) Modern architectures that are delivered on the promise of potential of technology
3) New, radically better ways to deliver innovation.
Amazing how well the Red Hat recommended fixes map to HP’s Converged Infrastructure promise. We’re delivering CI built on industry standards today, we believe there is a better way to integrate networking into the environment, we know HP is the only vendor that can bring all the pieces together in a converged environment to help organizations reduce IT sprawl. Their message was very complimentary to ours…. Cool.
Paul Cormier (SVP Red Hat Engineering): focus was how Red Hat delivers the future NOW. They also announced the Cloud Foundations program to the Summit attendees.
Ed Bugnion (Cisco VP of UCS server group) presented a UCS win with RHEL 5 (Travelport) that was a 520-node installation. They also announced some industry leading SPEC benchmarks (3), if we have some HP ones to mention in our blog that are better let’s use them. Cisco also announced that their VN-Link and Fabric extender products will support KVM. He also talked about their single pain of management for servers and networking. We should be able to mention all the capabilities that we’ve had for some time that compares to Cisco’s announcement (Virtual Connect, management of more than servers and networking, we have storage and services integrated too).
Great way to kick off this conference. Stay tuned for more.
