I had the privilege of attending an HP Cloud Tech Day this past week in Houston, organized by Ivy Communications. Tom, Chris and Halley did a great job gathering some pretty cool and smart bloggers and thinkers to hear about and give feedback on HP’s cloud offerings and aspirations. The list of attendees were:
Patrick Pushor
@CloudChronicle
Christopher White
@Fezmid
Rich Miller
@datacenter
Phillip Sellers
@pbsellers
Phillip Jaenke
@rootwyrm
Bob Stein
@ActiveWin
John Obeto
@JohnObeto
Chris Wahl
@chriswahl
Frank Owen
@fowen
Michael Letschin
@mletschin
Ofir Nachmani
@iamondemand
I highly recommend you check out their stuff. Super smart guys. A great mix, too, of sys admins, cloud evangelists, service providers, etc. I’ll follow up with some specific posts about the topics we covered while I was there, but here’s what we covered in day 1: HP Enterprise Business Cloud Strategy, HP View of Cloud Futures, Hyperscale for Cloud, Inner Workings and Building of a CloudSystem Infrastructure, Performance Optimized Datacenter Overview and Tour. Overall I was quite impressed. My regret is that I could only attend one full day. I will be following the rest of the action on Twitter (hash tag #hpci) and on www.hp.com/go/hpcloudday (live video, twitter feed and chat).