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On Wednesday I had the good fortune of attending Hewlett Packard's "Realize the Future" meetings in Toronto. I say good fortune because I have the opportunity to attend a lot of events, and it's nice when an organization treats you as well as HP. Paul Tsaparis, CEO of HP Canada, immediately noted that we as attendees have a lot of demands on our time, and he appreciated we chose to spend some with HP. The event was very, very polished, and lots of useful tidbits of information was shared.
Realize the Future focuses on developments in 3 key areas, Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Application Modernization. All 3 topics are near and dear to our hearts at Codesta, and I was interested in any insights they might share in the domain of application modernization. While the session wasn't overwhelming, it was still good...
The day began with 2 hours of keynotes, which in my opinion is never a good idea, but I was pleasantly surprised how the speakers kept things moving along. Highlights included:
- Paul Tsaparis, CEO of HP Canada - Topic was "Creating Advantage Today and Tomorrow" and I feel Paul did an excellent job communicating the priority for IT organizations to shift how they're spending their budgets. Paul shared that typical IT organizations are spending anywhere from 80% to 90% of their budgets on maintenance and only 10% to 20% on innovation. He positioned HP's strategy as enabling IT organizations to shift their spending, helping reduce maintenance expenses while increasing innovation investment. This is an excellent goal and one many IT organizations should take to heart.
- Marius Haas, SVP and General Manager, ProCurve Networking - Topic was "Creating Advantage from Converged Infrastructure" and I found Marius' discussion of HP's new FlexFabric networking technology very interesting. A solution which can truly make networks highspeed with low latency and also very easy to provision is an awesome combination.
- Kristina Robinson, VP and General Manager, Business Intelligence Solutions - Topic was "Creating Advantage Through Insights" and Kristina spent her time discussing the explosive growth of data globally. One factoid I found particularly interesting was HP's assertion that knowledge workers spend 24% of their time just looking for information. They've estimated that time costs $14K USD per worker per annum, which is pretty staggering. If you're looking for a new way to justify your latest BI project, you might want to quote Kristina!
- Robb Rasmussen, VP and General Manager, Best Shore Services, HP Enterprise Services - Topic was "Creating Advantage Through Applications" and Robb spent time discussing the importance of Software Lifecycle Management. He also shared some of the new developments at HP Labs, including their efforts on Intelligent Infrastructure. Programmable networks is another area of interest for me, and HP has some cool stuff in the works in this area.
Other interesting highlights I picked up over the course of the day include:
- Application costs are 8% acquisition and 92% maintenance. My favourite quote of the day!
- HP has 30 Million servers deployed globally, 5 Million of which are Virtual Servers. They anticipate that by 2012 they will have 60 Million virtual servers deployed!
- HP claims to have the largest install base of Oracle, SAP, VMWare and Linux on its infrastructure.
- HP estimates storage requirements will grow 6x by 2013!
- 247 Billion emails will be sent this year!
- HP is the 6th largest software manufacturer in the world.
Overall it was a good day, and Codesta certainly continues to be a big advocate of virtualization. We've already seen the benefits of virtual testing environments, Amazon EC2 services and the efficiency of not having to manage your infrastructure. I'm very interested to see how it continues to change our development practices, hopefully resulting in better products for our customers.
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