Se trata de una residencia real, de tres habitaciones, aunque nadie vive en ella. El objetivo de la instalación es mostrar las posibilidades que brinda la tecnología para conectarse al entretenimiento y a la información dónde y cuándo desee el usuario.

Los lujos tecnológicos hogareños de famosos como el empresario informático Bill Gates o el actor Ashton Kutcher, quienes poseen casas con todo tipo de adelantos, que permiten un estilo de vida digital, cada vez están más cerca del resto de los mortales. Bueno, siempre y cuando tengan como mínimo, y si viven en los Estados Unidos, unos 200 mil dólares para equiparla con computadoras de escritorio y portátiles, tabletas, impresoras, monitores, cámaras, teléfonos y hasta un centro de datos propio, entre otros dispositivos.

Una demostración de estos avances se puede observar en un inmueble que tiene HP, el mayor fabricante mundial de computadoras, en la localidad de Cupertino, en pleno Silicon Valley, la cuna tecnológica por excelencia en California, Estados Unidos.
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HP Photon Engine
Otra de las novedades que vimos en Nueva York fue la presentación de la tecnología Photon Engine de HP. Carlos Montalvo, vicepresidente del Innovation Program Office de la división PSG, nos explicó su funcionamiento y a qué industrias podría ayudar su desarrollo.
Esta solución tecnológica está dirigida a diferentes industrias, entre las cuales se pueden mencionar la moda, los comercios de venta al por menor, el deporte y el entretenimiento.
Pero, ¿qué es el Photon Engine? Desarrollado por una combinación de una estación de trabajo HP Z8000 con varios proyectores (independientemente de la marca), esta tecnología crea rápidamente y de forma automática un escalable ‘superproyector’ que tiene una independiente relación dimensional, permitiendo así que las imágenes 3D puedan ser trasmitidas en vivo a una pantalla de cualquier tamaño. Lo experimentamos con una pasarela de modas; con las gafas 3D puestas podíamos ver como si la modelo estuviera caminando al frente de nosotros.
Esta tecnología, además, puede ser aprovechada en 2D por los clientes de las empresas que quieren usar a la vez varios tipos de trasmisión de datos, como vídeo, Internet, documentos y fotos, y presentarlos a todos en una única superficie compartida, para ayudar a facilitar la toma de decisiones.


Accesorios En la presentación realizada en Nueva York hubo dos accesorios que serán bienvenidos por los usuarios en cualquier lugar del mundo en que se encuentren. Estos son el HP Wireless TV Connect, un equipo que, como su nombre indica, cuenta con tecnología WiFi inalámbrica, que le permitirá interactuar entre la TV y una notebook y viceversa, de forma que usted podrá ver en su pantalla grande sus películas y programas favoritos que tenga en su portátil. Lo que vimos nos gustó, no hay cables, ni software que instalar, sólo el receptor. Hay que destacar que si la portátil está capacitada para ver contenido en 3D y su televisor también, entonces usted podrá ver sus vídeos en 3D. Es compatible con casi todas las PC que tengan un puerto HDMI. Su precio inicial es de US$179 y estará disponible en este mismo mes.
El otro accesorio es un ratón inalámbrico con tecnología Wi-Fi y con un diseño ergonómico y acabado en negro brillante que lo hacen el complemento perfecto para las nuevas portátiles Envy de HP. Este ratón está equipado con un innovador botón de desplazamiento y seis personalizables, que incluyen un botón para subir contenido directamente a Facebook. La batería dura hasta nueve meses y su precio inicial es de US$59,99.

Tecnologías Incorporadas en los equiposHP sigue trabajando con sus ingenieros haciendo investigaciones y ha presentado varias tecnologías que están presentes en sus modelos.
HP Beats Audio. Se agudiza la música en los circuitos separados de la placa para que no haya ninguna interferencia , no hay metales en el canal de conexión del auricular y tiene un software que hace que la fidelidad sea prácticamente profesional. Permite escuchar la música como el músico la concibió. Es una combinación de hardware y software.
HP Coolsense. Detecta la superficie en donde está apoyada la notebook y administra la ventilación.
HP SimplePass: No es solamente un lector de huellas. Es un nivel de protección adicional sin exageración. Administra contraseñas, puede bloquear aplicaciones. Es un software/hardware. Tiene múltiples usuarios, es muy fácil de usar.
HP TrueVision HD. Permite ver bien la pantalla bajo cualquier condición de baja luz.
HP QuickWeb 3.0. Permite acceder rápidamente a lo que es Internet, fotos, algunos vídeos, Skype, etc, sin necesidad de entrar al sistema operativo, acceso en segundos.
HP Protect Smart. Tiene un software que para el funcionamiento del disco para proteger la información.
HP ImagePad. Tecnología avanzada del sensor de imagen que reemplaza el panel táctil tradicional y proporciona una precisa y mejorada respuesta. Es muy intuitivo.
HP Wireless Audio. Permite distribuir música desde las computadoras Envy hasta 4 estaciones diferentes. Todo en una alta fidelidad.

No dejó de sorprendernos la importancia que le está dando la compañía a la tecnología 3D, al presentar la primera computadora “todo en uno” para el hogar, capacitada con esa tecnología.

De la HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition PC nos habló Xavier Lauwaert, gerente de Mercadeo a escala mundial de la división de Computadoras de Escritorio de Consumo de HP. Nos mostró cómo se ven el vídeo y las fotos en este modelo con 3D. El diseño de la computadora, muy parecido al de los modelos anteriores, tiene la elegancia que los caracteriza; sin embargo, ahora usted puede disfrutar del mundo en 3D con esta computadora desde la comodidad de su hogar, y sin tener un televisor 3D.

Con un monitor de 23 pulgadas que puede girar en un ángulo de hasta 180 grados e inclinarse hasta 60 grados, la computadora cuenta también con una cámara web con capacidad para 3D, que permite ver tanto fotos como vídeo en 3D (las fotos y el vídeo tienen que haber sido tomados con una cámara 3D). Asimismo, la computadora cuenta con la tecnología TriDef Ignition Game Player para que los jugadores no se queden sin su deseo de jugar en tercera dimensión. Viene con Beats Audio, para un sonido excelente, y con HP LinkUp para una conveniencia singular.
La HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition PC, que estará disponible para el año entrante e incluye un par de gafas estereoscópicas 3D y su precio en Estados Unidos comienza en US$1899.99.

Sin embargo, si por el contrario usted no quiere o no puede gastar ese dinero, tiene aun la posibilidad de ver contenido en 3D. ¿Cómo? Pues con el nuevo monitor 3D, modelo HP 2311gt.
Sobre este modelo pudimos conversar con Pete Ellis, quien se encuentra a cargo de Displays Product and Technology Strategy, Consumer Displays. Este ejecutivo nos comentó sobre las ventajas del mencionado monitor. Con un diseño ultradelgado de 23 pulgadas, el monitor cuenta con un display backlit (retroiluminación) con la tecnología Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) que ofrece una muy buena brillantez, imágenes claras y libres de parpadeo cuando se ve en 3D. Asimismo, el monitor es capaz de convertir a 3D el vídeo y fotos tomados en 2D usando el software PowerDVD de Cyberlink que viene incluido con el monitor.

Al igual que la computadora anterior “todo en uno”, este monitor también tiene la tecnología TriDef Ignition Game Player para el disfrute de juegos en 3D y viene con dos partes de gafas pasivas, como las que usted encuentra cuando va al cine a ver una película en 3D. Su precio comienza en US$299, y también estará a partir de febrero en AL.

Y para los aficionados a la 3D, HP ofrece a sus usuarios la nueva portátil Envy 17 3D. Esta portátil ofrece una buena experiencia visual 3D sin comprometer el contenido en 2D. Incluye teclado retroiluminado, capacidad para conectarse hasta a 3 pantallas externas, HP Beats Audio, HP Wireless Audio y HP Cool Sense. Viene con 3D Active Shutter Glasses que sincronizan cada cuadro del contenido 3D entre la pantalla y las gafas.

La oferta de HP para el año entrante no deja de sorprender, desde una PC “todo en uno” con capacidad para 3D, hasta accesorios inalámbricos para el hogar.

Sponsored by: HP
Mary Johnston Turner Robert P. Mahowald | May 2011 |IDC OPI NION

IDC estimates that by 2012, 85% of net-new enterprise applications
will be specifically designed to be accessed in the cloud.
Cloud computing strategies help IT organizations reduce costs, improve service levels,and increase business agility by dynamically sharing IT resources across multiple applications and workloads. Although many organizations have started their cloud journey by using software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings or implementing self-serve approaches to virtual server provisioning, a small but rapidly growing group of IT organizations are focused on using cloud to optimize more broadly across application development, infrastructure operations, and day-to-day management processes.

A recent global IDC survey, sponsored by HP, examined the experience of this
proactive group of integrated cloud managers. These organizations are actively
integrating and automating application development, provisioning, security, and
management across public and private cloud resources as well as noncloud
application development and datacenter operations teams.

They are seeing many benefits, including faster application provisioning, lower
application development and maintenance costs, improved business agility, higher
service levels, and improved business and IT relationships. Their experiences also
highlight that success depends on cultural transformation as well as integrated and
automated management processes and tools.

An analysis of the experiences of these early adopters identifies five important steps for successful integrated cloud management.

Specifically:
- Define a plan that coordinates the organization’s application modernization
strategy with its cloud infrastructure and SaaS agenda
- Assess current costs and develop benchmarks for application support,
provisioning, and ongoing resource consumption.
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs and speed up service delivery via use of
automation for integrated application and infrastructure provisioning.
- Implement systems to monitor and integrate application performance and realtime
capacity planning analytics with automated provisioning solutions.
- Integrate security strategies and priorities across the application development,
release, and operations life cycle Global Headquarters: 5 Speen Street Framingham,


IDC recommends that organizations begin the journey toward integrated cloud management by targeting early pilot projects at developer teams and application
environments that can deliver quick payback to validate the business agility benefits
and operational efficiency improvements.

METHODOLOGY
This white paper discusses the results of a recent HP-sponsored IDC survey of IT
decision makers who are actively engaged in designing and implementing their
organization’s cloud strategy. This global Web-based survey examined the current
use of various public and private cloud solutions among 9,410 IT decision makers
located in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. From that group, 501 IT decision makers
were identified as being the most proactive when it comes to integrating application
development and operations priorities into their overall cloud strategy. To be included in this most proactive group, participants had to be currently taking advantage of one or both of the following application-centric cloud strategies:

- Private cloud management approaches that go beyond infrastructure
provisioning and virtualization to integrate automated application planning,
development, test, release, and/or runtime management processes and tools to
optimize application development, provisioning, and management inside a single
organization’s firewall
- Public, Internet-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud solutions (e.g., Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure Cloud) that can be used to simplify, integrate, and standardize application development, provisioning, and management strategies using resources accessed over the Internet and paid for via a subscription or usage fee.
The experiences of these 501 forward-looking organizations can provide valuable insight for the broader cloud user community as it works to deliver the greatest
business and IT value possible from a rapidly expanding portfolio of traditional and
cloud-based infrastructure and application resources.

SITUATION OVERVIEW
Hybrid Cloud Environments Expected to Dominate for Many Years

IDC’s research consistently finds that most enterprises expect to rely on a mix of
physical, virtual, and cloud-based application and compute resources for many years
and will need to integrate development and operations processes, policies, and
management tools across these diverse environments to meet fast-moving business
requirements, ensure consistent service levels, and hold down IT costs.

Among IT decision makers who are currently using cloud architecture and services,
most participants make use of multiple types of clouds.

Private infrastructure clouds that automate the provisioning and management of
hypervisors, servers, storage, and network infrastructure resources are the most
widely used (59%) cloud approach. They are followed closely by public SaaS options
(54%) such as salesforce.com. Public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions
(16%) such as Amazon EC2, public PaaS solutions (16%) such as Microsoft Azure,
and private integrated application and infrastructure cloud solutions (14%) are used
by smaller numbers of organizations.

IDC expects that the number of organizations that will want to integrate cloud-based
application development and operations with infrastructure cloud solutions will
continue to grow over time. IDC estimates that by 2012, 85% of net-new enterprise
applications will be specifically designed to be accessed in the cloud, even as many
mission-critical applications that were not built for cloud continue to deliver business value. For major enterprises, a complex Web of packaged and composite applications will emerge that have in-house and external components running on hybrid cloud platforms.

As a result, IDC expects that the majority of enterprise organizations, and many smaller organizations, will rely on hybrid environments spanning public, private, and noncloud resources for a number of years due to the unique infrastructure and operational requirements of different applications being used by the organization.

Differing IT philosophies toward sourcing external services as well as security/governance postures unique to a specific business or industry will also drive long-term reliance on hybrid architectures.

Each enterprise will make its own decision on the set of resources, security, and
management strategies it will use depending on its specific business and aplication requirements. However, it is important to note that customers consistently tell IDC that the needs of the applications in terms of performance, security,scalability, and cost dictate the type of cloud or noncloud environment that will be used to support them.

Integrated Application and Infrastructure Management Strategies Emerge as a Critical Cloud Control Point

Applications are where IT is converted to business value, and the effective
development, deployment, operation, and security of applications are IT’s highest
priorities. Making decisions about how to best use cloud solutions requires IT
organizations to have a solid understanding of application performance, security,
costs, and utilization requirements. The cloud decision makers who participated in
this survey have opted to make the integrated management of application development and operations a priority across their cloud environments. They have chosen this strategy due to a number of challenges involving both application development and ongoing operations.

Specifically, they identify the following important application development related drivers:
- Line-of-business (LOB) pressure to reduce application development costs
- The desire to modernize applications to take advantage of cloud infrastructure
architectures.
- The need to rapidly and continually refresh applications.
- The need to more quickly provide access to development and test resources.
- The need to embed security information into static code during development.

With regard to day-to-day management and operations, these decision makers are aiming to reduce business risk, improve application performance, and hold down costs.

September 2011
October is critical for Ops leaders. During the next six weeks, you need to take a hard look at your infrastructure and make sure you’re ready for the holiday season.
Nothing puts pressure on your infrastructure like peak periods. And the holidays can create wild surges in demand. Global shipping giant UPS, for instance, sees its workload spike by 67 percent during the holiday season, with daily package volume climbing from more than 15 million to a peak of 25 million.
Failing to prepare for peak demand can earn your business a spot in the web crash hall of shame. Victoria’s Secret is still infamous for its 1999 crash, when its Super Bowl ad drove millions of viewers to its underprepared website. More recently, Verizon underestimated the demand for web pre-orders of the iPhone on the first day consumers had a choice other than AT&T. Even Amazon, with all the power of EC2 at its disposal, was brought low by Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” on a $0.99 offer.
Obviously, it doesn’t take a holiday-season surge to crash your service. But for many companies, holidays are when stakes are highest. According to estimates by the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world's largest retail trade association, the holiday season is responsible for 25 percent to 40 percent of annual sales for some retailers.
Over the next six weeks, you’ve got a window to prepare for peak demand and test your systems while there’s still time to fix issues. Here’s how.
Making tough decisions
Whatever you did last holiday season, you can expect this year to be different. Business and infrastructure changes during the year mean that you’re not the same organization you were 10 or 12 months ago. You’ve got to assess where you are right now to put your holiday plan in place.
Many companies institute a change freeze for the holiday season, during which noncritical work is put on hold. Generally, this is not a good time to change software patches or update network routers.
But in reality the business is likely to force some unforeseen change to your environment. Perhaps it’s a change in your storefront content or an update to an application that’s critical to holiday season success. Whatever the reason, lines of business can trigger a move even at the height of the rush.
Other changes may come from forces outside the company. Your vendors may introduce changes in hardware or software in response to problems they’ve encountered.
In these cases, the key to minimizing risk is making sure that you have an incident management process in place, ideally one that’s backed up and tied to a change management process and linked in feature and function.
Key elements are: An incident monitoring system—covering both applications and infrastructure—that enables proactive monitoring of your environment A game plan for incident response A testing plan that features regression or known-state testing The ability to track the state of your environment and detect any unauthorized changes
Monitor and measure
On some level, issues are inevitable. So how do you catch them before your customers do? Incident monitoring that measures the state of your environment from the customer’s perspective is one of the keys to making it through the holiday crunch. Use a solution that allows end-user monitoring, which emulates a customer’s behavior and allows you to catch deviations to the expected experience. This gives you the ability to monitor applications and infrastructure and understand whether the business application is functioning correctly. If not, focus on the area, logical or physical, which may be at fault.
Another common mistake is to make infrastructure changes or roll out new servers only to forget to tie them back to the monitoring system. Thus, key parts of your infrastructure are hidden.
Cloud computing introduces another wrinkle. Just because you can expand elastically into the cloud to add capacity doesn’t mean you’ve got visibility into how those servers are behaving. Nor does it mean you’re protected from catastrophic failure: Just ask anyone affected by the April 2011 crash of Amazon Web Services. In some cases, AWS customers were down for days. Now imagine this happening a week before Christmas.
Your goals are clear visibility into your systems and having tools in place to measure performance. During this time, make sure you are measuring KPIs, looking at percentages for: reopened incidents escalated incidents urgent changes outages due to changes unauthorized implemented changes SLA coverage
Respond
Your monitoring system is feeding you information about your infrastructure. Now you need to set up a crisp response sequence and have clear escalation paths for when something does go wrong.
Maybe someone at a remote office rolls out an unauthorized change. Thanks to your incident monitoring, which is tracking the authorized state versus any unauthorized state, you’re aware of it. But are you able to roll it back, and how quickly can you return to the previous state?
Especially during the holidays, it may be hard to track down key personnel. It’s essential to have a response plan with at least these elements: A list of subject matter experts (SMEs) for incident response and handling A "follow the sun" model for handing off work (i.e., 24-hour capability) Embedded knowledge in the incident management system for handling common problems.
Think through a variety of worst-case scenarios. For instance, if your SME is in Seattle and the incident is offshore or on another coast, how do you engage this person in minutes?
Test
The final part of your holiday preparation should be testing. To minimize risk, it’s essential to test aggressively to see how a new capability behaves. Testing a change against the known state of your environment is critical to making sure you’re covered. Just because a change works on the surface doesn’t mean it hasn’t introduced an effect somewhere else in your environment. Regression testing processes and tools can help you deal with an unanticipated move you may be forced to make.
One common mistake is not to push the envelope enough when it comes to testing. Make sure to test so that you’re covered for an unpredictable market response. A good rule of thumb is to test for an order of magnitude more than what is expected. So if the business expectation is 1,000 orders, test for 10,000. Test for peak traffic and ensure quality of service during the rush by monitoring the entire service from apps to infrastructure.
Life is certainly easier when you can simply freeze your infrastructure for the holidays. But business needs don’t take time off. When you’ve got plans for monitoring, responding and testing, you’re able to meet those needs, minimize risk and react with agility.
For more information about applications and infrastructure monitoring and how you can ensure the performance and availability of virtualized and cloud services, find out about HP Business Service Management

Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in Government

This strategy guide will explain how, by using HP's Converged Infrastructure, you can upgrade technology, standardize equipment and improve IT practices -all of which can help reduce IT costs, cut network downtime, increase productivity and improve service to constituents. This whitepaper is a rich media document, and includes IDC Analyst research, multimedia content, risk assessment tool, solutions brief, valuable reference articles and up to 3 detailed customer case studies, all embedded within the single dossier.
Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in Government

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Descubra la infraestructura Flexible con HP FlexNetwork.
La tecnología que unifica el centro de datos, las herramientas colaborativas, la seguridad y la conectividad, permitiendo mayores posibilidades de virtualización, movilidad, cloud computing y contenidos multimedia.

HP FlexNetwork es una arquitectura abierta, compatible con miles de dispositivos (de 35 fabricantes distintos), respetuoso con los estandares y con un bajo grado de vulnerabilidad.
Es un nuevo horizonte para su infraestructura. Lo esperamos.

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