Right now, storage defined, is the buzzword*.

However, HP had started turning their enterprise ship into the software defined movement back at HP Tech Forum** 2009.

Dubbed “Converged Infrastructure”, or CI, HP’s software-defined vision is at once both fully baked, and evolving.

It is fully baked in that is has had a five-year gestational period in which elements of it have been baked into HP’s enterprise products across the board. It is evolving because as new innovations are being developed, HP is able to add those innovations to their overall vision, enriching their CI solution.

At HP Discover 2014 Las Vegas, we had a Coffee Talk with Duncan Campbell who heads up HP’s CI initiative, and Helen Tang, a superstar in the software defined datacenter space.

My apologies for the lousy audio. I forgot to use a close-in microphone with the interviews. If you have any ideas how I might be able to clean up this audio, please email me at john.obeto@absolutevista.com. Thank you in advance

* Giving credit where it is due, I believe it was one of VMware’s business units that coined the marketing-friendly catchphrase, ‘software-defined’.

** HP Tech Forum was the predecessor event to HP Discover

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