During HP Blades Day 2010, we had a 30 min chat with Paul Perez -- HP CTO, Storageworks Division.

Some of the highlights of the discussion with Paul are below

• One master provisioning stack for all Storage
• VDI solution from HP
• Integration of IBRIX and Lefthand – Common Management Infrastructure
• Proliant features of power management etc, to be passed onto the IBRIX and Lefthand with Convergence
• Customer References
• Bottlenecks in networking and storage today
• Stranded pools of IP (Intellectual Property) within HP, Integration challenges
• DataDomain
• Integration of HP EVA teams with HP Unified Storage Division
• Storage Tiering
• “Memristor” – HP Labs
• IBRIX SSD
• Industry Consolidation, business models
• Convergence is Next Gen

The Video – Paul Perez Unplugged

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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1. HP StorageWorks Tech Day 2010
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3. HP Blades Day 2010: Thursday – Day 1
4. HP TechDay 2009 Day 1: HP StorageWorks Technology
5. HP Blades Day 2010: Friday – Day 2
6. HP Blades and Infrastructure Software TechDay 2010