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Tomorrow I leave for Texas to attend HP’s Infrastructure Software & Blades Tech Day at the HP campus in Houston, TX. HPBladesDay is taking place on February 25^th & 26th. This exclusive blogger event was outlined in the invitation email I received as follows:

“This day and a half deep dive about the blade server market, key data center trends and client virtualization will be with HP technology leaders and business executives who will discuss the company’s business advantages and technical advances.  It will also include customers’ and their own key insights and experiences and provide demos of the products.  You’ll get an insider’s tour of HP’s Lab facilities as well.”

So, for the rest of this week I’ll be tweeting, snapping photos, taking movies, and sooner or later blogging about my experiences and HP’s blades servers.

This will be my second HP blogger event. Regular readers will recall I was also lucky enough to get invited to the HP Storage Day event at the Colorado Springs HP campus last Fall.

Podcast Coverage

Greg Knieriemen, also a HPBladesday attendee and the infamous Infosmack podcast host, has asked me to record another Infosmack episode from Houston with him. GestaltIT’s fearless leader and blogger extraordinaire Stephen Foskett will also be joining us on the show as well as in Houston at HP’s event. I’m willing to bet that several other of the bloggers in attendance could end up on the podcast, so look for another great Infosmack talk next Monday when it is released.

HP’s own blogger (Around the Storage Block blog) Calvin Zito (@HPStorageGuy) will also be there. Since Zito has also recently started his own podcast, look for great coverage in all social media formats from him as well.

Twitter and Blogs

Knieriemen has already created a Twitter list.

Twitter / @Knieriemen/HP Blades Day

You can also follow HP Blade team (BladeNews) on Twitter

The official event Twitter hashtag is #HPBladesDay

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Day 2 – Here We Go Again!

I’m throwing in the towel on trying to live blog/journal Tech Field Day. The event is too engaging and it’s all I can do to keep up with the conversation on Twitter while actually trying to learn so much new technology and products.

As in Day 1, please check the embedded Tweetgrid after the page break to follow my real time reactions as the day goes by. You can also follow all the Tech Field Day bloggers and their tweets with the multi column, web based Tech Field Day Tweetgrid.

I have been successful uploading my photos simply because I need to keep my phone and camera charged! Here is my album so far, and I’m sure I will update it more as day 2 goes by.

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Day 1 – Good Morning Silicon Valley!

Today is day one of the Tech Field Day and I am about to head downstairs to the hotel lobby to meet up with the group, jump on the bus, and head to our first destination – VMware’s Briefing Center in Palo Alto.

My flight was one of the last to arrive last night, but I did get to spend some “table time” with a few attendees before calling it quits due to the early start and busy schedule Stephen Foskett has arranged for us today.

I’m not sure I will be able to actually live blog since we are changing locations frequently, but I’ll do my best to update this post as the day goes on. Think of this post as a journal that will be refreshed as often as possible.

Please also check out my embedded Tweetgrid after the page break to follow my real time reactions as the day goes by. You can also follow all the Tech Field Day bloggers and their tweets with the multi column, web based Tech Field Day Tweetgrid.

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Disclosure: The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is an independent event being held in Sillicon Valley on Thursday 11/12 and Friday 11/13.  The event brings together a unique group of bloggers for sponsored technical presentations, demos, and hands on excercises. Tech Field Day bloggers are free to disclose all information presented on their respective sites and using social media. Although all bloggers attending have had their travel expenses covered by the event sponsors, none of the attendees are being compensated for posts or comments, and all are free to express opinions whether positive or negative in nature. For complete information about the event, the attendees, and the sponsors check out the Tech Field Day web page.

Day 0 – Travel & Tweetgrids

I’m putting in 2/3 of a work day today before my flight to SFO. Even so, I expect the twitter chatter to ramp up as the day advances, so I’ve started an embedded Tweetgrid filtered for just my tweets and the event hashtag , #techfieldday, after the break in this post. For a full web browser experience with all of the attendees check out my TechFieldDay Tweetgrid here. If you already have a Twitter account you can also quickly follow all Tech Field Day attendees and sponsors with a single click by following these Twitter lists:

• gestaltit/authors
• techfieldday/attendees
• techfieldday/sponsors

Did You Know Contest Winner

The winner of the pre event “Did You Know Contest” was selected and announced yesterday via this tweet:

“Congratulations to @DavidFix of Mr. X! He is the winner of our #TechFieldDay “Do You Know” contest!”

Look for more information about Tech Field Day Day 0 and the rest of the event here on VM /ETC over the next few days!

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Looking to quickly get started with Twitter and interested in following virtualization tweets? Eric Siebert has made it easy for you. His vsphere-land.com post New Twitter lists for the top bloggers and VMware/Virtualization people introduces 2 new TweepML lists he created that sign you up as a follower of 100 popular VMware & virtualization twitternames with the click of a button.

Siebert explains a little about his selection criteria for this group in his post:

“I did research a bit though to try and make sure the ones I included on the list did tweet often and that at least some of their tweets were VMware & virtualization related. I also did try and keep the list limited to actual people and not general types of twitter accounts that are used by companies and websites.”

Check out the full post at the link above, get your own Twitter account (if you don’t have one already), and then go to TweepML.org (also linked above) to quickly follow the virtualization group!

Next you will need a Twitter client to recieve all the tweets you signed up for! TechCrunch offers a great list of web clients in the post Tweeting from the Web? Nine Alternative Web Clients. The post has a feature comparison table and screen shots of several clients. Personally I’ve been using PeopleBrowsr a lot recently – not only for Twitter but for my Facebook updates in the same browser client too. I know most of the people I follow use Tweetdeck as a desktop client for Twitter, so I wanted to point out that application as well.

I am honored to be included in the 100 VMware and virtualization people group. Thanks again Eric!

Today I am in Colorado Springs, CO attending Storageworks Tech Day also being referred to as HP Storage Tech Day. It is a day and a half storage virtualization event hosted by HP, and I have the privilege of attending along with several other storage and virtualization bloggers.

The line up includes (with twitternames):

• Nina Buik (@NinaBuik)  Connect Community
• Stephen Foskett (@sfoskett)  http://blog.fosketts.net
• Robin Harris  (@StorageMojo) http://storagemojo.com
• Greg Knieriemen (@Knieriemen)  http://www.storagemonkeys.com
• Ray Lucchesi (@RayLucchesi) http://silvertonconsulting.com/blog/
• John Obeto (@JohnObeto) http://absolutevista.com
• Frank Owen (@fowen)  http://techvirtuoso.com
• Devang Panchigar  (@StorageNerve)  http://storagenerve.com
• Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton)  http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com
• Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_Si) http://www.techhead.co.uk

Calvin Zitto (@HPStorageGuy) is one of the leaders of the event, and he explains our agenda in his Around the Storage Block blog post titled Storageworks Tech Day Starting Now.

“The topics we’ll cover include:

• Storage virtualization for enterprise customers – virtualize infrastructure, not just servers
• Shared storage for virtual servers (SMB-focused)
• Unified storage
• Deduplication
• Converged Infrastructure”

Other attendees have already posted about the event. Be sure to check these posts (along with Calvin’s above):

• StorageMojo off to HP’s Storage Tech Day
• HPTechDay 2009 Day 0: Colorado Springs
• HP Storage Tech Day 2009

The official Twitter hashtag is #HPTechDay, and I’ve created a Tweetgrid after the post break if you would like to watch all tweets using the hashtage roll in live. Another option is a 3 columned Tweetgrid I’ve created for the event available here.

I’m looking forward to meeting the other bloggers and learning about HP’s storage virtualization offerings. Look for more posts on the event on VM /ETC throughout the week.

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I will still be uploading more photos over the next few days, but here is a slide show of some of my photos so far.

Enjoy!

I’ve also created a Tweetdeck after the page break that filters all of my Twitpics from the week.
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