Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions

Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

But, as with any convergence, there are a lot of moving parts, including people, skills, processes, services, outsourcing options, and partner ecosystems We're here with two executives from Hewlett Packard (HP) to delve deeply into converged in frastructure and to learn more about how to get started and deal with some of the complexity, as well as to know what to expect as payoff Please welcome Doug Oathout , Vice President, Converged Infrastructure at HP Storage, Servers, and Networking, and John Bennett , Worldwide Director, Data Center Transformation Solutions at HP The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner , principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions For more information on virtualization and how it provides a foundation for Private Cloud, plan to attend the HP Cloud Virtual Conference taking place in March To register for this event, go to: Asia, Pacific, Japan , 

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

A pay as you go "consumption" option offers compute time starting at 12 US cents per hour, storage at 15 cents per month for each gigabyte stored and storage transactions for 1 cent per 10,000 transactions, while a "commitment" model offers lower rates in exchange for a six month obligation 'A Natural Fit' "We've certainly seen that developers are one of the hottest constituencies for cloud computing, and that makes this a natural fit for Microsoft because there's such a large universe of developers using its Visual Studio products," Dana Gardner, principal analyst with Interarbor Solutions , told the E Commerce Times "Microsoft had seen them using other cloud offerings to do their testing and deployment functions, so it makes a lot of sense for them to come in with their own cloud and to start it as a free service," Gardner added Some of the value for developers is that "in doing builds or load balancing or load performance types of tests, all of a sudden they need a tremendous amount of compute power, then they don't," Gardner explained "If they do it themselves internally, they have to provide all the infrastructure, services and setup for the highest mark, but then have them underutilized for much of the time" 

Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

In many cases, applications and productivity services came to market first, but lacked the enterprise caliber infrastructure, management, and auditing and fiscal control mechanisms Now, HP is bringing these traditional IT requirements to the cloud domains, and making them available to the large market of existing providers The cloud horse is now in front of the cart, which means the providers can do their jobs better, and more end users can adopt secure cloud services in ways that reassure their mangers and adhere to their governance policies Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions , which tracks trends, delivers forecasts and interprets the competitive landscape of enterprise applications and software infrastructure markets for clients He also produces BriefingsDirect sponsored podcasts 

TIBCO Software, Inc. (TIBX) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions . This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events, with a panel of industry analysts and guests, comes to you with the help of our charter sponsor, Active Endpoints , maker of the ActiveVOS, visual orchestration system, and through the support of Tibco Software . Here are some excerpts: Tim Minahan: When we talk about business commerce clouds, what we're talking about is leveraging the cloud architecture to go to the next level. When folks traditionally think of the cloud or technology, they think of managing their own business processes. But as we know, if we are going to buy, sell or manage cash, you need to do that with at least one, if not more, third parties. 

Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

Gain more insights into "Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line" via a series of HP virtual conferences Nov. 3 5. For more on Application Transformation, and to get real time answers to your questions, register to the virtual conferences for your region: . Register here to attend the Asia Pacific event on Nov. 3.Register here to attend the EMEA event on Nov. 4.Register here to attend the Americas event on Nov. 5. 

Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

There is legacy wheat and legacy chaff . With us to delve deeper into separating the two among legacy enterprise applications is Steve Woods , distinguished software engineer at HP, and Paul Evans , worldwide marketing lead on Applications Transformation at HP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect 's Dana Gardner , principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions . Read a full transcript or download a copy. 

Apple Inc (AAPL) - Dana Gardner at Interarbor Solutions

I've been ruminating the past few days on why Apple is doing so well with it's pricey high end products and services during a recession. The answer came as I was reading today's New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, whom I deeply admire and read anything and everything he puts out. . Friedman points out that the winners in today's fast shifting U.S. job market are the ones demonstrating "entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity."