I am in Las Vegas for the HP Technology Forum 2010.
Also known as HPTF with the Twitter searchtag #HPTF, this event is the yearly HP Partner event which HP honchos use as a pulpit to inform their congregated partners of the company’s technology directions, vision, and offer hands-on training on the new products available. As an example, it was at this event last year that HP really started informing, and pushing on it’s vision of a converged infrastructure for the datacenter, both in the near term, and in the future.
HP partners also use this event to showcase their wares, from hardware add-ons to total solutions encompassing the entire hardware/software spectrum.
It is also one of the few, if not only, event where HP specialists can avail themselves of free classes and training, and deeply discounted exam testing.
For me though, this HPTF is going to be about HP’s datacenter vision, dubbed Converged Infrastructure Architecture. (Yeah, I know, a TLA that reads, CIA!)
For all I have heard this past year until today, I want to see how far that vision has come in the past year.
I am also looking to feel the pulse of partners in order to gauge the level of buy-in to this vision.
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