HP Tech Forum
Mark Campbell and I made the trek to the HP Tech Forum this year in Las Vegas.
At the opening keynote addresses Mark Hurd, Randy Mott and Ann Livermore CEO, CIO and EVP had very compelling stories of direction shifts becoming increasingly nimble and incredibly agile in change.
I want to start by saying I try to stay as vendor neutral as possible but HP definitely eats its own dog food.
I'm sure most have a heard of HP data center consolidation efforts over the past couple of years starting in 2005. Well the story is they'll be done in another few months. That's taking 86 data centers in 29 countries and consolidating into 6 in 3 US locations. I shouldn't have to do the math but it's in 3 years! The big take away here is that they were able to effect change in a very positive way and become the leading server vendor last quarter to boot! Yep beat "Big Blue". Now shipping a server every 12 seconds. Sorry Steve!
HP still has a substantial footprint in that they have about 21.6 football fields worth of raised floor space (that's 16.7 football pitches for Kevin). They also are very green, they have 40% less servers with 250% more processing power. Have reduced power consumption by 60% and I think they said will save what is equal to a 350 acre forest annually.
But back to change, the fact that HP transformed their data center operations in 3 years is still amazing to me. Randy Mott said that the biggest mistake most organizations make is to plan over time. Change needs to be transformational and not incremental. This leads to uncertainty with many different choices, discussions, that don't need to happen and ends up watering down the goal. "Ongoing Choosing is Loosing", was another take away for me!
Risk only comes from not knowing what you're doing, says Warren Buffet.
As a side note that may be interesting to some is that EYP Mission Critical Facilities did much of the design for the data centers and consolidation efforts. They did such a good job HP bought them and are now selling their services.
All in all a very good conference and some new products that sound as if they will be very competitive. One such product that caught my eye is the new Extreme Storage Solution (ExDS) StorageWorks 9100. This seems to hit the price mark with many features that includes manageability as well as a road map for hardware life cycle and ILM. This is not just a bunch of spinning disks, you can actually manage your destiny.
I'm still pretty vendor neutral (Really!)
At the opening keynote addresses Mark Hurd, Randy Mott and Ann Livermore CEO, CIO and EVP had very compelling stories of direction shifts becoming increasingly nimble and incredibly agile in change.
I want to start by saying I try to stay as vendor neutral as possible but HP definitely eats its own dog food.
I'm sure most have a heard of HP data center consolidation efforts over the past couple of years starting in 2005. Well the story is they'll be done in another few months. That's taking 86 data centers in 29 countries and consolidating into 6 in 3 US locations. I shouldn't have to do the math but it's in 3 years! The big take away here is that they were able to effect change in a very positive way and become the leading server vendor last quarter to boot! Yep beat "Big Blue". Now shipping a server every 12 seconds. Sorry Steve!
HP still has a substantial footprint in that they have about 21.6 football fields worth of raised floor space (that's 16.7 football pitches for Kevin). They also are very green, they have 40% less servers with 250% more processing power. Have reduced power consumption by 60% and I think they said will save what is equal to a 350 acre forest annually.
But back to change, the fact that HP transformed their data center operations in 3 years is still amazing to me. Randy Mott said that the biggest mistake most organizations make is to plan over time. Change needs to be transformational and not incremental. This leads to uncertainty with many different choices, discussions, that don't need to happen and ends up watering down the goal. "Ongoing Choosing is Loosing", was another take away for me!
Risk only comes from not knowing what you're doing, says Warren Buffet.
As a side note that may be interesting to some is that EYP Mission Critical Facilities did much of the design for the data centers and consolidation efforts. They did such a good job HP bought them and are now selling their services.
All in all a very good conference and some new products that sound as if they will be very competitive. One such product that caught my eye is the new Extreme Storage Solution (ExDS) StorageWorks 9100. This seems to hit the price mark with many features that includes manageability as well as a road map for hardware life cycle and ILM. This is not just a bunch of spinning disks, you can actually manage your destiny.
I'm still pretty vendor neutral (Really!)
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