HP Discover’s CIO Summits allow CIOs to dig deeper into subjects of particular interest. In the cloud breakout in Las Vegas last week, CIOs presented their viewpoints and learned more about the state of cloud strategy at HP IT. Obviously, cloud is a big deal for CIOs—HP IT said that what took them three months to provision now takes just 11 hours!

Hello there!  This is Big Data again.  Remember my Open letter to Enterprise IT? At the HP Discover conference, a panel discussion titled, “Make Information Matter: Make Big Data work for you” was all about me.

First, yesterday the day started with keynotes from Dave Donatelli, George Kadifa and Mike Nefkins. Dave discussed new products in the server, storage and network area, focusing mainly on the software defined ones, describing how HP addresses software defined data centers. George and his team walked us through the HAVEn announcement and showed through three new products how HAVEn can be used to gain better understanding of our IT environments.

Actor Kevin Bacon opened this year’s Discover keynote by proclaiming that the theory of six degrees of separation has been narrowed to 4.7 degrees.