HP sells the Integrity concept
October 3, 2006
HP sent out another message to the marketplace starting last week, one that didn't involve "tracer technology" or any phony product information designed to smoke out reporters. (Now we hear CEO Mark Hurd approved the fake message to the CNET reporter, if not the tracer technology.) But all of that has little to do with the HP most 3000 customers engage, the long-time engineers and managers of the 3000 group. Today in Minneapolis, HP taught customers about the advantages of its Integrity, a server, HP hopes will replace some other HP product that it won't support or update in at least a few years.
The HP Integrity Solutions Tour is visiting 30 cities between Sept. 26 and Nov. 16 across the US — plus a bonus show in Hawaii on Dec. 12. (For the best-performing team, perhaps.) The morning-long event, with breakfast served before and lunch afterward, gives customers a chance to "deep dive" into either the Integrity hardware, or the new territory (to 3000 vets) of virtualization.
Several members of the multiple teams doing the show hail from the 3000 division, when there was such a thing at HP. At the NewsWire we're marking down November 14, and not just because it's the five-year anniversary of the HP step-away announcement. HP's team will present the show in San Antonio that day. We hear the zen master of the HP hardware briefing, HP's Dave Snow, will be on hand for that one.
It's been a lot of years since we heard Dave Snow talk about anything related to 3000 hardware. The last memorable HP 3000 briefing he gave was in Chicago, in August 2001, when nary a slide on the screen suggested HP was pondering its path away from the community. Perhaps HP had not made up its mind by that week at HP World. Heck, at least HP's 3000 friends are still around in HP, unlike the user group that hosted that meeting.
Head out to www.hp.com/go/integritynow to make your reservations. It's free, with door prizes and lunch served at 12:30. Here's the schedule:
Oct 05 St. Louis
Oct 05 Nashville
Oct 10 Boston
(Waltham, MA)
Oct 10 Atlanta
Oct 11 Denver
Oct 12 Cincinnati
Oct 17 New York
Oct 24 Philadelphia
(Blue Bell, PA)
Oct 31 Washington DC
Nov 01 Chicago
Nov 01 Richmond
(Glen Allen, VA)
Nov 02 Phoenix
(Scottsdale, AZ)
Nov 02 Detroit
(Southfield, MI)
Nov 07 Houston
Nov 07 Pittsburgh
Nov 08 Dallas
(Plano, TX)
Nov 09 Cleveland
Nov 09 Virginia Beach
(Portsmouth, VA)
Nov 14 Seattle
(Bellevue, WA)
Nov 14 San Antonio
Nov 15 Columbus
Nov 16 San Diego
Dec 12 Honolulu
We'd love to hear your impressions about the show, if you attend. Send your comments — anonymous, if you like — to me at the NewsWire. We'll have our own report once we get back from San Antonio.