HP Converged Infrastructure Roadshow - August 26, Independence, Oh

HP's Converged Infrastructure is an end to end datacenter virtualization and automation concept that is here today and continously evolving. See the technologies that will enable the evolution of your datacenter from a collection of technology silos and applications to a more cloud like, application resource provider.

Agenda (local time)

8:30am	Registration and Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome & Keynote: Converged Infrastructure – Building Blocks of Success
9:30am	What is a common modular infrastructure? How do I build one? - BladeSystem Matrix - c7000 supporting all blades - Next Generation Integrity Blades - Servers and Storage
10:30am	Break
10:45am	Implementing a common, virtualized network fabric to simplify and increase flexibility - Flex-10 today/Future Flex-Fabric - Networking Solutions
11:45pm	Lunch
1:00pm	HP Services – An integrated approach to bringing the building blocks together
1:30pm	An Integrated approach to reducing , controlling and improving energy usage - Thermal Logic - Data Center Power Control - Data Center Environmental Edge
2:15pm	Management of your modular, virtualized infrastructure to increase productivity and optimize resources - Infrastructure Operations Provisioning your infrastructure in   minutes - Reduce and reclaim power
3:15pm	Event Conclusion: A converged infrastructure that can overcome the confines of IT Sprawl and deliver the next-generation data center
3:30pm	Wrap up and drawing of HP Mini giveaway

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Will Cloud Computing Eliminate Traditional IT Departments?

Notes from my recent attendance at Demystifying the Cloud workshop.

Cloud computing will have the same impact on the computer industry that the PC did thirty years ago, putting pressure on IT departments to adapt and evolve to this fact. The major challenge facing them is that their consumers, whether they are individual users or business units, can and will get their applications from the cloud if they feel it offers a better experience and/or bang for the buck.

Cloud vendors will be employing extreme economies of scale and an attractive "pay as you go - for as much as you use" billing model. I recently attended a workshop for IT planners on how to evolve their departments to an IT services broker model, a hybrid solution that allows them to offer the best of both worlds.

The new role of IT will be to source and deliver value. IT will have to work much more closely, more collaboratively with the lines of business and business functions. IT’s job will be to ascertain how eachtechnology-enabled service, calibrated to each business outcome, is designed, sourced, delivered, and measured.

It’s really all about the value of the service. IT must manage a hybrid mix of services, from different sources. They must weigh the value of each service, factoring risk, security, data architecture and integration, process, cost, reliability and availability.  Each service needs to be fit for purpose.

IT can’t call all the shots, and the LOBs can’t go off and make their own decisions on tech-enabled services. Governance and business relationship management will be critical for enterprise IT. With more complex channels and supply chains, IT will need to be more savvy, more aware, more open, and more agile.

Lee Kedrie from HP ran our workshop and below is a video explaining the process he took us through. I recommend this one day workshop for any IT planner wanting to understand the impact of cloud computing and the process to adapt your IT department to deal with it.

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