Daily Archives: March 30, 2011

HP Tech Day: Sustainable Data Center (#HPTechDay)

HP Fort Collins facility

I’ve had the privilege of being invited to another HP Tech Day.  This time, the event is being held at the HP Facility located in Fort Collins, Colorado.  This campus is located approximately 1 hour outside of Denver and sits between Intel and AMD’s campuses (see map .) 

The focus of this event is for HP to showcase their “Sustainable Data Center” concept.  Over the next two days, me and a team of other bloggers (listed below) will be meeting with key HP personnel like the Vice President of Marketing, Converged Infrastructure, to fully understand HP’s concept.  To give you some ideas of the messaging we’re likely to be exposed to, here’s a slide deck from two years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/hewlettpackard/sustainable-data-centers-hp-labs. Continue reading

A Look at the Dark Side of the Force

When I go to San Francisco, I head over to the west side of town to peer through the closed gates of the hidden campus of Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) dreaming of catching a glimpse of the magic.  Recently Arik Hesseldahl, from All Things Digital, accomplished my dream and had a peek behind the curtains of what makes ILM run.  Arik interviewed ILM’s CIO, Kevin Clark and then toured the ILM data center.  Continue reading