A video of the ZeroN interface in action can be seen here. Not sure what business purpose it has, but it was novel.
One of the features is the HP technology zone where anyone can touch some of the latest devices HP has on the market.
Most technologists are likely familiar with MapReduce as an approach to breakdown computing problems into smaller tasks that can be addressed in parallel. ManReduce is similar but for human resource parallelization.
“ManReduce is a framework for combining human and machine computation into an intuitive parallel data flow that goes beyond existing frameworks in several important ways, such as enabling functions on arbitrary communication graphs between human and machine clusters."
These efforts (or similar ones) are going to shift how organizations think of process and problem solving in the future. The traditional concepts of structured workflow and processing are going to change and this will require new architectures and open up whole new business possibilities. This is one of the reasons HP labs is looking at this space as well.
HP should have some interesting hardware, software and services to show this year. Naturally, there will be a range of Cloud capabilities for people to both discuss and experiment with this year.
For the first time HP labs will have a booth demonstrating some of the interesting research efforts that are currently underway.
According to the HP Discover Speaker Catalog, it looks like I’ll be participating in 5 presentations and panels this year:
Wednesday June 6th
2:45PM BB2883 - Master the Cloud series: Application transformation in preparation for cloud
4PM RT3063 - Don’t be the only one wondering about Systems of Record!
5:15 PM RT3064 - Yes! You can have it this week: How to please your LoB manager
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Thursday June 7th
11:15AM BB3062 - Life as we know it is going to be all about “Systems of Engagement”
2:45 PM BB3061 - Why you should care about Systems of Record
When I am not presenting, I’ll probably be at the HP Labs booth, although I am always tempted by hands-on labs. I’ll try to twitter at @cebess as well.
I hear there are a few tweetups planned as well, so if you will be there, keep those in mind. There will also be a screening of Madagascar 3 in 3D as well as some other special events. I was able to see a couple segments of Madagascar 3 at Interop and the first segment was very humorous.
1) Interoperability is making a comeback – it definitely is the case that as organizations move to a hybrid cloud infrastructure that interoperability issues develop. This is one of the reasons HP is focused on Converged Cloud.
2) Security needs to be throughout the network, and that's no longer empty talk – I’ve been saying for a long time that security needs to permeate an organization’s architecture. If there is one thing we should have learned from the 1990s, it is that perimeter based security doesn’t work.
3) Cloud infrastructure is becoming a commodity, but new services will help providers protect their profits – It amazed me the amount of time and space that was dedicated to cloud at Interop. There were a large number of providers and organizations selling enabling capabilities. Naturally all of them were talking about how different they are. One person’s commodity is another another’s core business.
4) As resources move into the cloud, IT operations is forced to navigate in the dark – I don’t necessarily agree with this observation. There are numerous ways to provide greater visibility in the cloud. Granted few of them are free, but this is also an area HP has been focused on with Converged Cloud. It needs to look like one enterprise computing environment at the end of the day, regardless of where the bits are being twittled.
5) DNS vulnerabilities are becoming too risky to ignore – this last one is something I’ve heard a great deal more about recently. DNS is definitely a vulnerable point in today’s Internet protocols. OpenDNS recently unveiled a secure DNS service for consumers (it runs on both windows and iOS). It’s interesting how many people are concerned about security… but don’t realize that their DNS requests are sent in the clear and that can allow quite a bit of information leakage. Of course if you always use a VPN your risk is minimized.
