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Live Blog: Networking Tech Field Day – San Jose,2010

16th September 2010 By

This is the Live Blogging page for the Networking Tech Field Day, San Jose 2010. I’ll be updating during the presentations, parties, discussions and quiet moments to capture some of the feel of the event, and to be available for your questions and observations.

You can ask questions by leaving a comment on this post, or be contacting me on Twitter

This page uses AJAX to automatically update, no need to refresh, just leave the page open and it will update throughout the event. You can find more information about the Networking Tech Field Day Gestalt IT.

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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.milestails.com Miles

    An NMS that works and scales? I’ll believe it when I see it! I ditched the Solar Winds engineers tool kit back at version 8 for open source alternatives (Cacti/Nagios) , however it looks like I may have to review my choice.

    Loving the live blog/tweets. Keep up the good work :)

  • http://twitter.com/brandoncarroll/status/24773206275 Brandon Carroll (@brandoncarroll)

    @etherealmind Did you know that your live blogging is posting to twitter, but there is no link back and no image?

  • Jason Gurtz

    Interesting things here. Would be interested in more detail on the SolarWinds changes at some point.

  • Pingback: HP: Needs to Start Talking about the Future ñ My Etherealmind

    • Jay Mellman

      Greg –

      As a company, HP has traditionally been much more conservative in speaking about futures than many of our competitors. HP has strict interpretations of both Sarbanes-Oxley financial rules and revenue recognition requirements, setting a high bar for discussions about futures. Obviously, the company is concerned about implied commitments to customers and instructed its businesses to operate accordingly.

      Until now, with much of our Enterprise business driven by Intel releases and the networking focused primarily on the midmarket, the pressure to deliver long-term roadmaps was manageable. As HP Networking, in particular, expands our commitment and footprint in the Enterprise, it’s clear that we need to meet customer and partner needs for longer-term architectural planning.

      Internally, we are driving a long-term vision for both networking and converged infrastructures and are actively planning 3-5+ years out across both products and technologies. And we have a group within HP Networking specifically tasked to drive longer vision and strategy across the organization. But for now, providing long-term roadmaps in a public forums such as TechDays or OracleWorld is just not acceptable to HP. We do already share near-term roadmaps with customers and channel partners under NDA and with suitable disclaimers. And rest assured, we are well aware of the missed opportunity and vacuum we are leaving. We are serious about changing the rules of Enterprise Networking — we’ve heard the feedback and are working with our internal partners to deliver to the level of information and vision you and others have come to expect.

      Jay

      • Daniel

        I’m exposed to HP at a partner / solution integrator level through my organisation, and the information Jay mentions just isn’t easily accessible unless I want to have HP in front of the customer with me along the way – so there are still some massive gaps to fill in terms of engagement. There may also be situations where I want to sell mixed-vendor solutions, and it is only when HP opens up a little on the roadmap and internal architecture front that this will be possible.

        I think this is going to be a big cultural change for HP to get used to, as they have previously always been able to sit back and let Intel do the leg-work (and take the risk) in the systems market. Broadcom et al don’t engage directly in this way (as there is little brand recognition to be gained – as you say Greg, we want features, we don’t care what logo is on the logic + we’re fickle), so the onus is on HP to tell the story here.

        Also, one other thing HP has to do to get beyond being a “me-too” player and into a space where the business is seen to be innovating, contributing towards new standards to drive a technology segment forward and delivering them rapidly after ratification (so I’m not just talking about tightly coupled network management tools here). This is the only way that they will gain traction and gain a reputation for competing at any other level beyond “the same as vendor x, for less”.

        • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

          In my experience, HP doesn’t aim to be a leader in anything but overall aims to meet the needs of a large part of the middle market with reasonably priced and effective solutions. Which is a very fine, if a bit dull, business strategy. If you find working in IT hard work, and don’t much like a challenge, then HP is a good vendor partner to have.

          And there is nothing wrong with that, by the way. Not everyone wants to be pushing the envelope. Tried, true and boring can be a good choice.

      • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

        Jay

        Thanks for taking the time to respond.

        In my view, that’s lack of communication is going be a problem. I don’t look backwards when establishing my strategy, only forwards, and I need a five year view of product development. During the current inflection point in data centre networking, this is especially true given the rate of change over the next five years.

        HP is going to have to break some old fashioned ideas if they want to be successful. Why does HP have a problem with SOX and Cisco (and others) doesn’t ? Because no one is telling the lawyers to get out of the way.

        I know HP doesn’t much like change but it’s time for HP to make some changes and grow up to the new world where transparency and openness is part of the successful business strategy.