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HP Networking Tech Day – 23 & 24 August 2010

11th August 2010 by 7 Comments

HP LogoHP have invited me to Sacramento (in a travel marathon taking about 20 hours each way) to attend the (first?) HP Networking Tech Day on 23/24 August, 2010. I don’t have the agenda yet, but I’m expecting to get briefings around the full spectrum of the H3C networking portfolio including security, core switching, wireless etc etc.

Digging for Gold

I’m looking forward to hearing about the HP Networking product strategy in more detail, and understanding what differentiation, features or capability they have and what their strategy is going to look like. I’ll also be looking for reasons to trust 3Com management after they shafted me in 2000 by discontinuing key products and causing my customers a lot of problems. Still, maybe it’s time to move on and see whether HP can bring a new commitment to their network products. Now that Mark “Short Term Profits Mean Bonuses for Me” Hurd has gone, it will be interesting to see if H3C has any products left in R&D and coming down the pipeline and what their forward looking commitment to product development will be.

I’m expecting to record a couple o’ Runt Packets if I can find topics that are interesting and while I’ve got access to the real peoples. Past events of this type mean that we get access to some of the vendors best technical and marketing people, so there should be some good opportunities for getting some interesting conversations on the Flex-10 strategy and trying to find a silver lining in that particular cloud.

I’m looking forward to meeting Jeremy Gaddis from†http://evilrouters.net/ who is well known for his, um, openness on the his experience with HP products.

Face to Face

If you live in Sacramento then I’m planning a meetup on Sunday 22nd and you are welcome to join in. If you are in San Francisco, then I’m passing through on Saturday 21st and can layover and meetup if there are enough interested people. If I get enough feedback, by the weekend I’ll change my plans. Contact Me: |†Greg @etherealmind or contact page.

Twitter Hashtag

I expect to punch out a few tweets during the event and am looking into some live bogging software. If you want to follow the Twitter HashTag #HPNetworkDay I’m sure you’ll get a whole load of goodness, and you can also ask questions that I will submit to the HP folks.

Disclosure

HP Networking Tech Day is sponsoring the flights, travel and accommodation for this event. I am not required to write or podcast about the event and am free to share my own thoughts and perceptions. As if I’d do anything different. I am not paid for my time and do not receive any recompense, except maybe a free t-shirt …. wowee.

However, I am expecting to write something and podcast about what I’ve learned there because that’s what it’s all about, right ? Sharing with the community.

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About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus

  • http://www.workingfrommyshed.co.uk Stuart Howlette

    I was invited along to this, but just couldn’t spare the time off for it, shame really. I’ll be interested to see what you make of it.

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      Yep, I can’t really afford to take time off from work. I much prefer the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day format of multiple vendors in a couple of days, but HP is the number two of the networking world and it’s worth one trip.

      • http://twitter.com/AndyAtHP Andy Bryant

        Hi Greg,

        Glad to hear you say that – and it will also give you a chance to see the products, and tour the Roseville lab. I’ve been helping put together the agenda; but unfortunately couldn’t attend myself. You’ll be hearing about all 4 product series – the A, E, V, and S – which include the products acquired from 3Com, H3C, TippingPoint, and yes – the ProCurve ones are also in the mix. They’re not going away any time soon.

        @AndyAtHP

        • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

          I’m going with an open mind and a willingness to learn. It will be good to see what a major competitor to Cisco can do.

  • http://rizzitech.blogspot.com Marco Rizzi

    Thanks Greg to keep us up to date about this event,
    We will wait for your valued opinion especially about the Flex-10 10G module.

    Marco

  • http://www.hp.com/storage/blog Calvin Zito

    Hi Greg – I’ll be at the HP Networking Tech Day (despite the fact that I’m @HPStorageGuy) and am looking forward to meeting you there.
    Calvin Zito (http://twitter.com/HPStorageGuy)

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      Hey, Storage and Networking – We are all one now. See you soon.