September 2014 – At the HP workstation briefing in Ft Collins, CO they were showing off the latest version of the professional displays, plus some prototype that have in progress in R&D. The kickoff of the briefing on displays was done by Ann Lai – Director of the Commercial Business Segment for the Displays Business…
September 2014 – HP introduced a refresh on their market leading Z series workstations. The full product line – the 4XX, 6XX, and 8XX desktop/rack mount workstations have all been updated to support the new E5-1600/2600 Gen 3 processors and chipsets. The ZBook line has been updated to support the Gen4 i5 and i7 processors….
April 6, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—HP introduced a new set of DreamColor Displays, which claim to offer better color gamut and higher resolution. The new displays include new functionality to simplify system integration and ongoing operations. The displays supply color-critical 4K support for production functions. The HP Z27x and Z24x displays for PCs and Macs…
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Muthukumar Murugan from HP Storage talked about big data from a storage systems perspective. The trends and issues associated with big data call for an evolution of the whole storage paradigm. The storage concerns for big data include the obvious volume of data, the…
September 18, 2013, Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Sam Fineberg from HP and Simona Rabinovici-Cohen from IBM talked about combining cloud, tape, and container format technologies for long-term big data retention. With the move in big data to use historical information as part of the analytics, long-term data retention becomes a necessity. Big data is…
July 2013 – While the majority of the computing space is focused on content consumption in the form of video, image and audio playback, HP and several other workstation providers are still making optimized systems for the content creation community. Like the scientific & financial communities, this is a specialized field and application that relies…
August 6, 2013, Emerging Display Technologies Conference, San Jose, CA-Shane Wall from HP looked at the ability for new technologies to disrupt industries. The economic and historical perspectives are useful in considering new technologies. Looking at the trends over the past century saw the emergence of four new communications technologies. All of these new technologies…
April 29, 2013, Open Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Martin Fink from HP discussed the need for open source in cloud computing, and the issues and challenges going forward. The community-driven cloud projects are providing more than just source code. Cloud projects have been in the works at HP since ’05, and are now mainstream within…
March 23, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—We talked with Terry Brown from HP and Jon Guess from ALT Systems about their new workstation-software bundles. These integrated systems are directed for game developers who need a pre-configured system with the latest software tools. HP has been in the workstation business for a while and has…
April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT…