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Patrick: Hi Everyone I'm Patrick Eitenbichler with HP's PartnerOne team in here is... Duncan: Duncan
Campbell
and I run HP's solutions marketing
worldwide, including
Converged Infrastructure and Virtualization
Patrick: Virtualization there's the topic we want to talk about. Walking around the show floor
lots of people are talking about virtualization 2.0
what kind of an animal is that?
Duncan: I'm glad they're talking about it Patrick, because
at 11:00 AM this Thursday that's my kenote on Virtualization 2.0 Patrick: Way to go.
Duncan: So in fact it is
the next
phase of where virtualization is going
Patrick: And what is that?
Duncan: Okay so
most everybody has already tried server virtualization
so this is really taking that to the next level so it's about virtualizing
your storage like we did with Priceline. It's virtualizing the client
like we did with Commerce Bank
and the network as well
Patrick: Virtualization across the infrastructure.
Duncan: Absolutely.
Patrick: And did you do that with one vendor at a time? or how did you pice it together?
Duncan: Yes, so actually that is a very important question and point
because our view on how you do virtualization it needs to be hypervisor
independent
and from that standpoint we don't lock you in it turns out most enterprises already are
using multiple hypervisors, over 80% are, so our approach is
definitely we're going to be hypervisor independent
and we actually have the strategy
with Virtualization 2.0 to take it across infrastructure again: server
storage, network, the client
and in fact,
virtual data centers as well
Patrick: So how does that help a customer? You mentioned Converged Infrastructure too if
they virtualize does it help them on the pass through convergence and to Converged
Infrastructure?
Duncan: Well, absolutely
it should, but you need to really think about it not just from a top stand
standpoint in terms of
just technology only
so if you think about it
to get ready for a change like that, you need to think through both the
technology
the people
the process and the governance. So
if you want to get to Nirvana you got to really be thinking through all those
different dimensions to be successful
to really be able to go on that journey and hit your goal
Patrick: Way to go. And has there been any announcements at Discover related to virtualization
Duncan: In fact there have
our new
VirtualSystems in fact was debuted today. Today being
Tuesday June 11th 2013
and the good news is there is some substantial performance advantages and
in fact now we have that 50% improvement
in number of VMs that are going to be now available with our new
virtualization system so it is what we call our VS3, so it is
very applicable for both upper, mid-market and enterprise companies. Patrick: Outstanding.
I think I have run out of questions and we are supposed to be done in 3 minutes
any last words of wisdom you want to share?
Duncan: Yeah there is still a lot of opportunity here in virtualization so
you know to really get focused get ready for it
think about it again across not just technology, but across all those different
elements work with us and our partners who have tremendous skill sets
there's a lot of benefit left virtualization and it is the foundation
for the things that you want to do either today or the future of both with
cloud and big data you need that highly virtualized infrastructure and you'll be
tremendously successful in reaching those goals
Patrick: Thanks Duncan, thank you.