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This is the live feed of the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show in Palo Alto, CA. Andy McCaskey from SDR News and myself will be spending all day Thursday, March 11th, interviewing and recording video.

Show has concluded. Videos from event will be up shortly.

This last couple days was a pretty eventful one. Andy McCaskey called me and said – Hey, your going to California. Funny, I wasn’t shootin at no food.

The event is the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show. It was a 2 day event in multiple cities that ends in San Fransisco – More specifically, Palo Alto – At the heart of IT. Unfortunately, it also happens opening weekend of SXSW, but ya know, it happens.

I am actually not only honored to go, but very excited. As an IT professional in the former life, I still love to keep my hands in the infrastructure and administration. That, and it’s the first time I get to go to the sunshine state. Not the Dairy state – That is my home.

Andy and I will be heading down with one goal in mind – Video. We will be interviewing multiple people in the HP IT world, including Dave Peterson, Bill Allen, Grant Jacobsen and many others in the HP line.

HP Road Show Contest

Oh yeah, once we finish the video, we’ll be having a contest. The prizes are not finalized just yet, but the main prize we were bopping around is something you might want in your arsenal.

If you want to follow via Twitter, the hashtag combo will be #hprs and #hpci. Streaming will be available if we have the bandwidth.

Topics covered:

Learning how to reduce your IT operations and maintenance resource costs
Remove trapped budget silos that are costly and underutilized
Transform your Data Center to operate more efficiently
See how the HP converged infrastructure architecture is breaking down technology silos to simplify IT and accelerate business results.

Day 1 sessions will highlight the following:

- Bulletproofing your virtualization strategy
- Why Converged Infrastructure matters to your Data Center
- Control Aging Server Sprawl; New economics you can’t ignore
- Unleash Trapped Capacity with Virtual Storage Infrastructure
- Get out of the Sparc, IBM mainframe and legacy rut with Integrity optimized infrastructure
- Changing Networking to Unlock Business Value

Day 2 sessions will highlight the following:

- HP BladeSystem Matrix and Insight Software: Converged Infrastructure solution for delivering shared services
- Flex Fabric to dynamically connect resources
- Unified Storage for flexible, resilient scale-out storage
- BladeSystem with G6 processors for maximum performance and power efficiency
- Detailed technical teardown of competitive systems to see what’s really under the covers

I went on the show “Bageltech BIG” this last week. I joined Ewan Rankin, Troy King, Sarah Jane and Andy McCaskey to talk about news and cool stuff.

Bageltech News is a daily rundown of news in IT and Bageltech BIG is a weekly show with a panel. Big topics were the Schools Laptop privacy issues, MWDC, Flying police drones, RFID on phones, Who owns Lindsay Vaughn and weekly picks.

A fun hour of discussion between the four of us. You can check out Bageltech BIG here:

January’s Roundtable was another great event. Todd Cochrane was your host for the TechPodcasts Roundtable.

Jeffrey Powers talked about ways to podcast via a mobile device. He introduced Mark Smith – CEO of iPadio.com -We provided TPN updates from CES by phone right from the show floor, in audio podcast form. Learn how the technology from the UK Company spearheaded coverage of the disaster from Haiti a few days after CES. Mark even used the iPadio service to also stream out his portion of the discussion to his followers.

Andy McCaskey introduced Rob May from BackUpify.com. Backupify offers a way to safely back up all of the social media data that you have stored in the cloud – such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Gmail. It’s in beta right now, so if you want to try it for free, you can get your current social media content backed up.

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IOMega i-Connect Wireless Data Station gets in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) game with this new device. It takes your USB drives and turns it into storage over the network. You will also be able to connect USB printers or other devices, and it will turn into a new drive for you to pull from.

Andy McCaskey talks with Bill on this great new product from Iomega. The i-Connect Data Station is only $99 and has a 3 year warranty. Of course, it is wireless, so you will be able to place it anywhere you have a WiFI signal.

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Ever wanted to track your energy consumption? Well, Whirlpool and Direct Energy might have the answer with that.

In a test going out to 40 homes, energy retailer Direct Energy will test how these Appliances will save and how consumers react. The system will automatically figure out how to manage the devices.

Andy McCaskey talks with Whirlpool about this pilot project and how the system works. Using the Zigbee network, the appliances will talk with each other. The test is being run this year and the system will be launched in stores by 2011.

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Need the Ultimate in Laundry Experience? Whirlpool will be giving you one soon.

This Washer / Dryer looks like an accessory to your car, but they are the newest in laundry technology with a Green conscience.Energy Monitoring during cycle selection will be incorporated so your whites get white and your Green stays Green.

Andy McCaskey talks with Brandon over this great new idea. This washer/dryer pair won’t be out until mid-year, but it might be something to wait for if you are planning on getting a new one. With auto lift hinges and Eco monitor, you can save money and not have the lid slam down.

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Web Conferencing systems come in many flavors. If you need a more professional solution, then ZipDX. More features really show that this program might be a great solution for you.

Andy McCaskey talks with David over ZipDX and their new program called “Scribe”. This is their Real Time Transcription. As they talked, the computer was transcribing the meeting. Whereas other conferencing services take a few days to get systems transcribed, ZipDX costs only $100 and you will get it back in 2 minutes.

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Back in 2004, Mogo created a mouse that stowed in the PC-Card slot. It would charge the mouse until it was used. You would then pull it out, and slip the card back in and charge it.

Nowadays, Notebooks and netbooks do not have those older PC-Card slots. That’s O.K, for the new version of the MoGo is integrated right on the Netbook. Slip out the wireless mouse and surf away.

Andy McCaskey talks with Stewart about how the MoGo has changed. They also talk about a new device for iPhone that lets you stow a Bluetooth headset right into the case. Of course then there is the MoGo Daptor – a USB dongle for the wireless devices.

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Do you buy music from iTunes, Amazon or other areas? Having a problem organizing those purchases? Well you might want to check out Dazzboard – it manages your online media.

Android users have another advantage with the partnership that Dazzboard has. You can back up applications on your computer so you can restore them later. Also you can download directly from partners like GetJar.

Andy McCaskey talks with Taro about this great software. This is a program for IE and Firefox and will soon have support for Mac and Safari. It’s a browser extension Web based application, therefore it’s free.

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As an IT administrator in a previous life, I know that keeping data safe is key #1. It would have been nice to have this product on all the notebooks in the office. Especially one instance where the employee found a legal way around keeping their machine with all of our data on it.

LoJack for Laptops / Computrace creates a partnership with Intel for Anti-Theft Technology – Think of it like a Kill switch if your machine gets lost, stolen, or taken in any way possible. The laptop will be rendered useless until it comes back to the owner, in which they can then turn the machine back on. It litterally Bricks the machine.

Andy McCaskey talks with Stephen at CES about this “poison pill” technology. Best part is this option is incorporated in the laptop – Like a Dell laptop, in where you get a 1 year membership. Even a “wiped” hard drive can be detected and LoJack will load their software to brick the device.

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