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HP Blades Day ended for me with another opportunity to be a guest on an Infosmack podcast. Episode 40 was recorded mid afternoon on the last day of the event with an all-star lineup. Here’s the official podcast summary from the episode’s web page (linked above):

“Infosmack Podcast Episode 40 – HP Blades Day Wrap Up. Greg Knieriemen of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley of 3Par and StorageRap.comwith guests Rich Brambley of VM/ETC, Simon Seagrave of TechHead, Stephen Foskett of Gestalt IT, Chris M. Evans of The Storage Architect and Devang Panchigar of Storage Nerve. This week’s podcast is a special wrap up from the HP Blades Day in Houston, Texas.

Disclosure: The participants on this podcast were provided travel and accommodations by HP.”

Like when I’ve been on Infosmack before, here’s an embedded player to listen to the latest episode now.

For those wanting to know a little bit more about some of the most important topics we were discussing in Episode 40 check out the following links:

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The final day of HP Blades Day consisted of some quick morning sessions and then the Factory Express and HP Pod tour. The guided explanation of the HP server assembly process was clearly the pinnacle of 2 days that was already filled with many highlights.

Here’s a 30 second video of some of my photos from Friday.

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For more information about HP’s Factory Express program that let’s each customer “choose how your solution is built, tested, integrated, shipped and deployed” check out this video.

For more information about the HP POD “ship to order datacenter” check out this video.

If you’d like to see all my photos from Wednesday through Friday check out my full HP Blades Day photo album. I’ll eventually add the HP Blade Day photo album to my Photos page here on VM /ETC as well.

Disclosure – I toured the HP Houston, TX facilities during an all expenses paid blogging event hosted by HP.

VM /ETC readers will probably recall that I love to report on the NFL and it’s teams use of virtualization and blade centers. I must say, as a man born in Philadelphia who is a long time Atlanta Falcons season ticket holder, I had to “do what’s right” and publish this post. All rivalries aside, I find examples of popular events, teams, and venues such as Cowboys Stadium to be the most interesting real world virtualization implementations to reference.

Disclosure – I was introduced to this video during an all expenses paid blogging event at the HP Campus in Houston, TX.

HP Blades Day Day 1 was a busy day. Although there were some Internet connectivity challenges for me, I was surprised to find a good bit of conversation on twitter was available from other attendees. Today will be another day of more great content presented by HP. Look for posts with session information and opinion over the next few days.

Here’s a 30 second video of some of my photos from Day 1.

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The following is our agenda looks like for day 2:

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Wednesday night in Houston, TX was a great finish for a day of travel. By 6 PM all of the HP Blades Day attendees had made it to the hotel, checked in, and met in the lobby. After some general group socializing we ended up grabbing some pizza at a nearby restaurant called Pizza Fusion. It was a great evening with a great group of folks!

Here’s a 30 second video of some of my photos from last night.

Today we will get down to business at HP. Here’s what our agenda looks like:

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