HPE Discover – Connect Worldwide

Discover what’s next in compute innovation: A look back at Discover 2024

Kelly Luna — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:28:26 +0000

This year’s conference was one that will be difficult to forget.

Our world is at an unprecedented inflection point, and this year’s HPE Discover 2024 was a remarkable event that showcased “the future is now” with announcements poised to help enterprises accelerate innovation and AI-led transformation.

In our look-back blog, we’re covering key moments and snapshots from the event that will highlight what you might have missed and what’s next in HPE Compute innovation across edge, hybrid cloud, and AI.

Learn more about HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s keynote delivered at the iconic Sphere at the Venetian Resort[i], get the rundown on the Compute spotlight session with HPE General Manager and SVP, Krista Satterthwaite, and our latest compute product and solution announcements – plus catch other highpoints and gems from the show.

Keynote by CEO Antonio Neri: Intelligence has no limits

Big moments, big venues, and the biggest names in technology. The big news at Discover was centered around the launch of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of co-developed AI solutions including a first-of-its-kind turnkey, private-cloud AI solution. HPE President and CEO, Antonio Neri, took the stage for the first-ever keynote to be delivered at the Sphere. With breath-taking visuals, customer stories, bold announcements, and special guest speaker, NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, Neri did a superb job articulating that there’s nothing that can’t be done together – hitting it home on his keynote tagline – intelligence has no limits.

Throughout the keynote, Neri capitalized on the immersive Sphere audio and video experience. He featured several customer stories that showcased our collective HPE philosophy: HPE’s technology is not just a tool, but is a force that unlocks human ambition, and catapults ideas into innovations and lifts enterprises to new heights.

Neri welcomed NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang to the Sphere stage to announce NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of co-developed AI solutions we developed together to accelerate adoption of Generative AI. As part of the partnership, the two visionaries introduced:

HPE Private Cloud AI. A turn-key solution that provides the deepest integration to date, leveraging of NVIDIA AI computing, networking, and software with HPE’s AI storage, compute, and the HPE GreenLake cloud.
HPE ProLiant DL384 Gen12 server with NVIDIA GH200 NVL2 is ideal for large language model (LLM) consumers using bigger models or retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 server support for up to eight NVIDIA H200 NVL Tensor Core GPUs. This is ideal for LLM users looking for flexibility to scale their GenAI workloads.
HPE will be first in time-to-market support for the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 / NVL2, as well as the new NVIDIA Blackwell, NVIDIA Rubin, and NVIDIA Vera architectures.

These bold announcements bring enterprises closer to the potential and promise of AI. In short, to experience – or even re-experience – the iconic keynote and gain a better understanding of the insights and news, watch the replay on the HPE Discover More Network.

It was truly an incredible keynote. One that I, and many other attendees, will remember for a lifetime.

Compute Spotlight: Accelerate your AI journey

In another memorable session, Krista Satterthwaite, SVP & General Manager of HPE Compute, reflected on her own experiences and learnings from customer conversations, and encouraged enterprises to take advantage of the beginner’s window with Generative AI.

The first half of this spotlight session focused on helping businesses figure out where to start on their AI journey, and quickly realize value from generative AI initiatives. Frances Guida, Director of Solutions and AI for HPE Compute, was joined by Mike Mangiafico, Director of Product Management of OEM Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA, to dive deeper into how the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE will assist businesses in streamlining the development and deployment of AI applications, from pilot to production.

Guida and Mangiafico also gave the audience an up-close, first-look at the newly announced HPE ProLiant DL384 Gen12 and HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 servers.

The HPE ProLiant DL384 Gen12 server offers next-level performance for memory-intensive AI, based on the innovative NVIDIA Grace Hopper architecture, and supports up to two NVIDIA GH200NVL2s.
The HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 server delivers ultra-scalable GPU acceleration for enterprise AI and supports up to eight NVIDIA H200 NVL GPUs.

Both servers will be generally available this fall.

Next up on stage, John Carter, VP of Product Management for HPE Compute, shared insights to help organizations create capacity by re-purposing or disposing of existing, underperforming IT assets. This action frees up the capital and time tied up in tools that no longer deliver the value they once did.

Carter provided enterprises with four excellent reasons to modernize their compute:

Security is paramount
Team-time is most useful for strategic initiatives and innovation
Older deployments are complex and costly
Workloads and use cases continue to evolve

Carter also announced HPE GreenLake for Compute Ops Management secure gateway, and two HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers for Service Providers. The two new servers were designed to give service providers greater architecture flexibility by right-sizing infrastructure with seamless deployment for a long-term investment. Service providers’ customers can learn more about the two new platforms by contacting their HPE representatives.

HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen12 SP
HPE ProLiant DL340 Gen12 SP

Catch the replay Accelerate your AI journey with HPE Compute or explore the co-developed enterprise AI solutions HPE and NVIDIA has to offer.

What else did you miss? Sessions and demos re-cap

Today, AI is the topic of the moment, but customers and partners attending HPE Discover 2024 were delighted to hear that HPE is still bringing innovation and expertise across the portfolio for all workloads – AI, VDI, SAP and beyond.

HPE Compute experts flooded Las Vegas to support many of the demos located across the 7-acre showcase show floor. Demos included Intel and AMD based Gen11 platforms, the newly announced Gen12 servers, VDI and AI solutions, Compute software and management as well as server security and more. Antonio Neri and Jensen Huang even stopped by to see the HPE ProLiant DL384 Gen12 – and they left their mark. Literally – you can see them signing the server in photo, above!

In addition to a variety of demos on the showcase show floor, HPE Compute also hosted a variety of sessions – several of which were standing room only.

IT trends shaping server design, performance, and efficiency
Hidden costs of deferring server modernization
Best practices for delivering productive, secure VDI
End-to-end security best practices for compute environments

Explore the best of HPE Discover 2024 for yourself

The week may be over, but all of the best content is now available on demand! Contact your HPE representative, or Authorized HPE Partner to learn more about our latest announcements.

You can also browse these resources for more information:

HPE Discover 2024 highlights
HPE Discover More Network for session replays including the keynote
#theCUBE interview with Krista Satterthwaite
HPE Compute spotlight session replay
HPE and NVIDIA co-developed solutions

It will be hard to top the excitement of this very special HPE Discover – but planning is already underway for HPE Discover 2024 Barcelona in November of this year, and HPE Discover 2025, to be held once again in Las Vegas next June.

Until next time – Best regards,

Heather Leopard, Senior Marketing Manager, HPE Compute

Heather Leopard is a 20+ year marketing veteran with deep institutional knowledge of HPE products, services, and software. She’s held a wide range of marketing roles spanning digital, events, program management, software solutions, and alliances. Heather has led product marketing for HPE InfoSight, HPE BladeSystem, and the composable portfolio including HPE Synergy, HPE OneView, and ISV partner integrations. She is currently a senior marketing manager for HPE Compute Systems and Solutions.

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2024 HPE Discover Las Vegas Connect Tech Forums

Brandi Boyd — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:18:14 +0000

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect will host thirty-minute Tech Forums in the Connect HPE User Community booth (DEMO 502 and DEMO 503) in the Transformation Showcase during the entire week of Discover! Registration for the Connect Tech Forums is open now on the HPE Discover Live Agenda Builder.

Did you know that Connect members SAVE $300 on HPE Discover Registration? Click “Connect Member” on the registration form to access this exclusive member discount!

Tuesday June 18 Schedule

2:00 PM - CF6870
Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery for Mission Critical Systems with HPE Shadowbase Software

Speakers: Kenneth Scudder and Paden Holenstein, Gravic
Learn about the HPE Digital Resilience Framework and the solutions that help protect and recover mission-critical HPE NonStop server data from Ransomware and Malware attacks. With new regulations like DORA, it is essential to follow best practices such as data validation. Different architectural options will also be reviewed, including air-gapped systems and bare-metal recovery from immutable storage, enabling rapid data recovery with transactional consistency to a trusted state.

3:00 PM - CF6871
HPE GreenLake and StoreOnce - A great reason to bring your cloud workload back on-prem

Speaker: Wayne Cross, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Our firm achieved substantial cost savings by strategically implementing HPE GreenLake and adopting a StoreOnce architecture, significantly reducing Microsoft Azure Cool Tier expenses. Previously, we hosted 4.2 PB of replicated data destined for Azure Cool Tier, incurring an annual cost of approximately $630K. Through integrating HPE StoreOnce and GreenLake, we successfully transitioned our data to a more cost-effective approach. This involved replicating data from multiple regional locations to a newly implemented StoreOnce device at our central hub, saving us several hundred thousand dollars per year.

4:00 PM - CF6873
Revolutionizing Enterprise Servers: Unleashing the Power of AI & Multiverse Management for Unprecedented Cost Savings

Speakers: Vito Shrivastava and Khody Khodayari, Idelji Corporation
Immerse yourself in the next frontier of innovation as AI takes the reins in managing enterprise servers, offering you groundbreaking efficiency and substantial cost savings. Discover how it anticipates and tackles issues before they surface on any monitoring screen, all while weaving a tapestry of parallel universes to optimize resource distribution and avoid future bottlenecks and any further issues. Join us on a journey where human decisions guide AI evolution, offering a glimpse into a future where cost savings, enhanced availability, and strategic foresight redefine server management. Get ready for a mind-bending experience that transcends the ordinary – a shockingly brilliant revolution that puts your budget back in your hands.

5:00 PM - CF7058
Resilience; Ransomware? Done with HPE NonStop!

Speaker: Richard Buckle, Pyalla Technologies, LLC
From fears arising from Y2K to Ransomware to AI and Quantum, there is a lot to worry about. There is a continued almost obsessive fear that something is about to destroy the integrity of enterprise IT. According to HPE, hype about Ransomware and indeed Business Resilience is not to Y2K levels and not even close to AI hype, it is a hot topic right now. But Business Resilience it is more than defense against bad actors: The recognition of absorb, adapt (understand) and transform. Learn all about the need for business to address these big picture aspects to ensure a business remains in business!

Wednesday June 19 Schedule

1:00 PM - CF6874
From Data to Insights: Unleashing AI’s Power Across Industries

Speaker: Frederic Van Haren, HighFens Inc
In today’s dynamic business landscape, AI has emerged as a game-changer. With the advent of pre-trained Large Language Models (LLM) and Generative AI, organizations across industries are harnessing this transformative technology. But which sectors can truly leverage its power? And how does the technology stack for AI differ from the traditional one? Join us as we delve into these critical questions, exploring real-world applications, industry use cases, and the essential components that fuel AI’s capabilities. Discover how AI is reshaping the future of business.

3:00 PM - CF6872
Cybersecurity Strategies for Ransomware Protection, Compliance and Digital Resilience

Speaker: Steve Tcherchian, XYPRO Technology
This session will cover the latest in defending against ransomware, ensuring compliance, and enhancing resilience. Learn to identify vulnerabilities, navigate compliance standards, and build a robust cyber defense framework. Gain insights into the anatomy of a ransomware attack, create resilient strategies for anticipating and recovering from cyber threats, and foster a security-aware culture.

4:00 PM - CF6943
Join the HPE Developer Community to collaborate and build

Speakers: Fred Passeron and Mathieu Losmede, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Looking for the resources you need to design and build the best possible software and architecture experiences? Join this interactive meetup and learn how to connect with the HPE Developer Community to build, communicate, and collaborate. We’re all developing something. Let’s do it together.

Call For Papers! Would you like to present at HPE Discover 2024 in Las Vegas?

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:27:12 +0000

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2023

Wed, 10 May 2023 18:25:36 +0000

Join your HPE User Community at
HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect will be hosting thirty-minute Tech Forums in the Connect HPE User Community booth (DEMO 1402 and DEMO 1401) in the Discover Showcase during the entire week of Discover! Registration for the Connect Tech Forums is open now on the HPE Discover Live Agenda Builder.

Did you know that Connect members SAVE $300 on HPE Discover Registration? Click “Connect Member” on the registration form to access this exclusive member discount!

Connect Tech Forum Schedule

Tuesday, June 20

Time	Session Name	Speaker
2:30 PM	CF5927 Connect Tech Forum: AI and predictive analytics to fully automate operations and avoid issues in advance	Khody Khodayari, Idelji
	Learn how we use AI and predictive analytics to anticipate the behavior of computing platforms for every minute of every day. Monitor bots can detect anomalies and immediately notify the specialist bot who identifies cause, effect, and recovery procedures and can immediately instruct the monitor bot to address the issue or require a human’s authorization first. Issues are addressed in seconds. The same bots can detect upcoming issues and recommend proactive solutions to avoid them. AI at work. REGISTER NOW!
3:30 PM	CF5926 Connect Tech Forum: ChatGPT and multi-language Avatars for tutorials and user training	Vedant Shrivastava, Idelji
	Learn how we trained ChatGPT to answer user questions on how to use our products. We also connected this with Avatars, which can zoom in on specific training areas in a video format and do so in the users’ local language. Learn how to use AI to improve user training and productivity substantially. REGISTER NOW!

Wednesday, June 21

Time	Session Name	Speaker
1:00 PM	CF5929 Connect Tech Forum: Advanced data resiliency and data integrity architectures for mission-critical servers	Paul Holenstein and Kenneth Scudder, Gravic
	Mission-critical computing requires reliability, availability, and scalability (RAS). Reliability and data integrity are now at the forefront of business concerns and a primary challenge for businesses to solve. In this talk, we review three Levels of Active/Active and Validation Architectures and an advanced best-of-both-worlds architecture to maximize all three pillars of RAS. We outline several deployments of these architectures using HPE’s NonStop and ProLiant servers based on preventing election fraud, system upgrade proofs, and gambling. REGISTER NOW!
2:00 PM	CF5928 Connect Tech Forum: Transforming data center efficiency – A Morgan & Morgan and HPE GreenLake success story	Ryan Colbert, Morgan and Morgan
	Morgan & Morgan partnered with HPE GreenLake to efficiently expand data center resources, maintaining a predictable cost structure. Embracing virtualization and VDI, M&M now supports 5,000+ desktops with plans to reach 10,000+ by the end of 2023. HPE improved M&M’s data center by standardizing Ethernet connectivity, fixing power availability, designing expansions, and enhancing the core network for user capacity growth. Through close collaboration with HPE, M&M optimizes end-user experience and reduces TCO, ensuring enhanced productivity. REGISTER NOW!
3:00 PM	CF5931 Connect Tech Forum: Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and the state of AI in the enterprise	Frederic Van Haren, HighFens
	Artificial intelligence (AI) is a critical factor in the survival of modern enterprises. The session introduces AI, deep learning (DL), and machine learning (ML). You will learn about terminology and definitions used in AI, various types, and use cases of ML. What is a pipeline? How do I get started? Additionally, we will discuss the trends and challenges associated with modern AI solutions. AI is all about continuous learning and accentuates the need for scalability with a predictable ROI. REGISTER NOW!

Save the Date for HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas!

Kelly Luna — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:17:34 +0000

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2022

Kelly Luna — Wed, 04 May 2022 16:39:58 +0000

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect will be hosting thirty-minute Tech Forums in the Connect HPE User Community booth (DEMO 702 and DEMO 703) in the Transformation Showcase during the entire week of Discover! Registration for the Connect Tech Forums is open now on the HPE Discover Live Agenda Builder.

Did you know that Connect members SAVE $300 on HPE Discover Registration? Click “Connect Member” on the registration form to access this exclusive member discount!

Tuesday, June 28

Time	Session Name	Speaker
12:30pm	CF5391 A look into the Encryption, & Key Management solutions for HPE’s data storage	Manish Upasani, Utimaco
HPE is widely known for its compute and storage solutions but threats to customer data still persists, including malware, ransomware, data leakage, etc. As attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, protection must follow. One of the most critical and proven methods to protect data is encryption. Almost all solutions offered by HPE offer encryption natively. In this session, we will discuss how Utimaco ESKM integrates, complements, and enhances the existing HPE offerings and beyond.
1:30 pm	CF5386 HPE Intelligent storage solutions creating value in Faroe Islands health care with 100% uptime (for more than 5 years)	Thomas Østergaard Nielsen, DanofficeIT ApS
The Faroe Islands is a small group of Islands located in the northern mid-Atlantic with a sparse population of 55,000 people. The healthcare system has operated with a 100% uptime in their Metro Storage Cluster over the last 6 years. This is done with HPE 3PAR with Peer Persistence and HPE DL Compute. Join this session to learn how the impact of Infosight and AI is used to mitigate the lack of local IT specialists and, at times, unstable power infrastructure.
2:30pm	CF5387 Modernizing Legacy PA-RISC Based Servers & Applications with HP9000 Containers	Patrick Wallek, Service IT Direct
Do you have applications running on legacy PA-RISC-based HP-UX servers in your data center? Do you want to upgrade but can’t? We will discuss how HPE customers can modernize their PA-RISC-based servers and applications using HP9000 Containers. Join this session to learn how to gain better performance, increased availability, and less rack space.
3:30pm	CF5392 Value your data! Move your data! Analyze your data!	Richard Buckle, on behalf of Connect Worldwide
Providing actionable business insights is our goal, but integration across the enterprise needs a plan. Understand your options and optimize your product dependencies. Discover ways to integrate and analyze your data to best unlock its value. Join the Business Intelligence and Analysis Tech Forum to connect with other HPE users in a venue where information can be readily exchanged, and where the availability of solutions addressing integration and analysis can be better understood.
4:30pm	CF5471 Does your Data Lake Need a Little Chlorine? Clean Up and Modernize Your Apps	Matthew Morris, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Have things become a little murky with your Hadoop solution? Join this meetup to hear how HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise can modernize your applications and enable cloud-scale elasticity while tightly coupling the data at the edge with your applications running on-premises and in the cloud. You can even take advantage of cloud economics as you have it fully supported from beginning-to-end with HPE Professional Services and deployed as-a-service. Much cleaner, right?
5:30pm	CF5472 What Is HPE GreenLake?	Don Randall, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
We say that HPE GreenLake is the “cloud that comes to you.” What does that really mean? More importantly, what does it mean to you as an IT professional, or a director, or as you run your line of business, or as you build new systems? In this session, you will learn the big picture of HPE GreenLake and how to dive into more detail across the HPE Discover 2022 conference.

Wednesday, June 29

Time	Session Name	Speaker
10:00am	CF5385 New Data Integrity Architectures for Mission Critical Systems	Bruce Holenstein, Gravic Paul Holenstein, Gravic
The 3 pillars of mission-critical computing are RAS: Reliability, Availability, & Scalability. Reliability encompasses data integrity but receives much less attention than Availability or Scalability. In this session, we briefly review the three pillars, focusing on innovative new HPE NonStop and ProLiant Server architectures and technologies that maximize reliability and data integrity, in addition to Availability and Scalability. We also review a case study on preventing election hacking using NonStop and ProLiant Servers that illustrates this new technology.
11:00am	CF5389 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)	Frederic Van Haren, HighFens
Organizations use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate their Digital Transformation. Therefore, AI is a critical factor in the survival of modern enterprises. The session introduces AI, Deep Learning (DL), and Machine Learning (ML). You will learn about terminology and definitions used in AI, various types, and use cases of ML. What is a pipeline? What roles are required when applying AI? How do I get started? Those are some of the questions addressed in this session.
1:00pm	CF5390 Challenges and Trends of scalable AI Solutions	Frederic Van Haren, HighFens
Deploying scalable AI solutions for ML and DL workloads is necessary for organizations to innovate and stay competitive. We will discuss the trends and challenges associated with modern AI Solutions. AI is all about the process of continuous learning and accentuates the need for scalability with a predictable ROI. We will review an end-to-end HPE-based solution with HW and SW stack as deployed at a customer. The solution includes HPE servers, NVIDIA GPUs, and Weka’s high-performance file system.
2:00pm	CF5388 AI Data Flow - Keeping the GPU's fed in your HPE system	Mark Frenette, HighFens
AI solutions need Big Data and big processing, but how do you bridge the gap between the data lake and the GPU processors? New RDMA/RoCE storage protocols that bypass the CPU can feed data directly to the GPU, and will drastically change and improve the path between storage and GPU. Join this session to understand the improvements in PCIe and Infiniband that will help determine your GPU cluster’s performance.
3:00pm	CF5394 Smart Manufacturing with abat PLUS - A high availability, data-driven and AI-enabled Manufacturing Execution System	Peter Grendel, abat+ Thomas Oberst, abat+
Manufacturing of complex products, especially in the automotive sector, who use diverse and discrete processes, need new approaches to their production control systems. In this session, learn how HPE and abat+ are creating smarter factories by combining planning, logistics, order and inline quality, while integrating data across geographically distributed, cross-plant production chains seamlessly and without system failures. The highly available and flexible MES solution PLUS, running on HPE NonStop, is in production at several leading manufacturers across the globe.
4:00pm	CF5393 Driving Customer Success with Zerto for Data Protection	Kyleigh Fitzgerald, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It’s time to introduce the newest member of the HPE data protection family! Join this session to hear how 9500+ customers use Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, for ransomware recovery, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud mobility. You’ll hear how real customers are using Zerto to easily recover their virtualized and containerized applications at scale—and do so with ease and without risk across on-premises and cloud.

It’s All Fun and Games at the Hack Shack!

Dale Rensing — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:27:35 +0000

Can you believe it? Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be holding its first major in-person conference since 2019 in just over a month! HPE Discover 2022, the edge-to-cloud conference, will be held in Las Vegas at the Venetian/Palazzo Resort from June 28-30^th. The HPE Developer Community team is really excited to be able to engage with attendees in person once again. Make sure you register soon so you don’t miss out!

A place designed especially for you

HPE Discover 2022 attendees will have plenty of opportunity to sit and hear about all the newest HPE solutions and technologies throughout the event. But once you enter the Hack Shack, things get personal! This is where developers, data scientists, and IT technologists have the opportunity to sit down with experts and discuss topics that are important to them. Experts on hot topics like zero-trust security, data lakes, machine learning and analytics workloads, and Open Source projects will be hanging around just so you can get your questions answered.

Within the Hack Shack, you’ll engage with members of the HPE Developer Community in topical meetups. These 30-minute sessions are informal gatherings where you can listen to various subject matter experts (SMEs) and then engage in further discussion on the topic as a group. SMEs will also hang out for a bit after each session in case you want to delve into further detail regarding your own specific needs. (Stay tuned to our next blog post where we’ll get into details on these meetup sessions.)

There will also an opportunity for you to sit down with the HPE UX design team to help them improve the user experience across HPE products and services. Share your opinions and make your voice heard by participating in a variety of user research activities that will inform the design and direction of HPE products and services.

Compete in games and win prizes!

While many come to the Hack Shack to connect with subject matter experts and get their questions answered, many also come to enjoy a little competitive fun with their colleagues. We’ll have a fussball table out on the front lawn, a Jenga and cornhole game in the backyard, chairs to relax in, and a Shield console to play some cool video games. And even through what happens in Vegas typically stays in Vegas, in this case players will be able to return home well-rested with some swag to call their own!

In addition to these popular games, the HPE Developer team has developed a couple of other additional diversions for you. The first one is our Virtual Treasure Hunt. Designed to familiarize players with the HPE Developer Community web portal, this scavenger-hunt style challenge encourages you to check out all the resources that are available on the site, and including the virtual Hack Shack. Be one of the first 12 to successfully complete the challenge and win a $45 gift card!

We have also designed six role-based hands-on challenges you might want to take. Each onsite participant has the opportunity to go home with some nifty swag. Six lucky on-site participants will walk away with a CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Extreme kit after having successfully completed one of the challenges and correctly answered the associated quiz. Grand prize winners will be announced at our Hack Shack celebration on Wednesday night. Just a quick note: You must be present to win.

Are you ready to take these challenges?

Cloud Architect Challenge – VM Desired State Management in HPE GreenLake – Your mission is to deploy a VM in HPE GreenLake using the open source configuration management tool, Terraform. For this challenge, you’ll describe the desired state of your environment and use Terraform to analyze and build the necessary infrastructure artifacts. You’ll be provided with everything you need in a nice and friendly Jupyter Notebook environment with little to no code to write. Take an hour to experience Infrastructure-as-Code on HPE GreenLake and earn a chance to win a prize.
Open Source Advocate Challenge – Play with Python or Discover Ansible – Your Choice! – Feeling competitive? Expand your Open Source skills with a chance to win cool prizes. In this challenge, you will be tasked with completing one of two popular HPE DEV Workshops-on-Demand. Choose from Python 101 – A simple introduction to Python programming language or Ansible 101 – Introduction to Ansible concepts and respond correctly to the quiz for a chance to win a prize. An hour should be enough for you to complete this challenge!
Developer Challenge – Building Modern Software with Zero Trust Security – In today’s highly distributed modern software environments, security is a major concern. Who do you trust? In this challenge, choose one of two workshops, SPIFFE – SPIRE 101 – An introduction to SPIFFE server and SPIRE agent security concepts or Creating a Zero Trust Model for Microservices Architectures with SPIRE and Envoy, to understand, in less than an hour, how open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE enable zero trust security at the heart of your solution and compete for a prize.
ML Engineer Challenge – Deep Learning Model Training at Scale with Determined – Deep learning at scale is difficult, right? Explore the fundamentals of Determined, the open-source deep learning training platform, to learn how it can help. Take this challenge and respond correctly to a quiz to try and win a cool prize. In this challenge, you will train a TensorFlow model in Determined using one GPU, and scale up your training across multiple GPUs, using distributed training, while finding accurate models faster using state-of-the-art hyperparameter search methods.
Data Scientist Challenge – Finding the Data You Didn’t Know You Needed – In this challenge, you’ll get to see how Dataspaces can help you discover new and meaningful datasets that enhance your model building experience, all whilst keeping track of the datasets you know and love, so next time you don’t have to go digging through old notebooks to find them! You’ll even learn how you can share them with your classmates or trade them for valuable tokens! This challenge should take out about an hour and gives you a chance to win an awesome prize.
Data Driven Developer Challenge – Build a house on a Lake! – Know little to nothing about Apache Spark? Maybe you’ve heard of the terms Data Lake and Data Warehouse? Yes or no, you’re perfectly prepared to step up, put on your Data Driven Developer hat and create your first Lakehouse architecture! Ingest data from a Data Lake and convert it to Apache Spark Delta Lake format. Then perform SQL queries on it, create streams of data, and verify ACID compliance! Within an hour you’ll be ready to build a house on a lake and qualify to win a cool prize.

Come party with us

One of the most anticipated events at HPE Discover is the Hack Shack celebration. Planned for Wednesday evening, we’ll be serving refreshments and hosting a very special speaker who will be presenting the CanaKit Raspberry Pi sets to our lucky winners of the role-based challenges.

Stay tuned! There’s more information to come! We’ll be publishing more details on the meetup sessions and the schedule in an upcoming HPE Developer Blog post.

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Kelly Luna — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:29:32 +0000

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HPE Discover – Connect Worldwide

Discover what’s next in compute innovation: A look back at Discover 2024

Keynote by CEO Antonio Neri: Intelligence has no limits

Compute Spotlight: Accelerate your AI journey

What else did you miss? Sessions and demos re-cap

Explore the best of HPE Discover 2024 for yourself

2024 HPE Discover Las Vegas Connect Tech Forums

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect will host thirty-minute Tech Forums in the Connect HPE User Community booth (DEMO 502 and DEMO 503) in the Transformation Showcase during the entire week of Discover! Registration for the Connect Tech Forums is open now on the HPE Discover Live Agenda Builder.

Tuesday June 18 Schedule

2:00 PM - CF6870
Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery for Mission Critical Systems with HPE Shadowbase Software

3:00 PM - CF6871
HPE GreenLake and StoreOnce - A great reason to bring your cloud workload back on-prem

4:00 PM - CF6873
Revolutionizing Enterprise Servers: Unleashing the Power of AI & Multiverse Management for Unprecedented Cost Savings

5:00 PM - CF7058
Resilience; Ransomware? Done with HPE NonStop!

Wednesday June 19 Schedule

1:00 PM - CF6874
From Data to Insights: Unleashing AI’s Power Across Industries

3:00 PM - CF6872
Cybersecurity Strategies for Ransomware Protection, Compliance and Digital Resilience

4:00 PM - CF6943
Join the HPE Developer Community to collaborate and build

Call For Papers! Would you like to present at HPE Discover 2024 in Las Vegas?

The Call for Papers is Now Open.

Are you ready for HPE Discover Las Vegas the week of June 17, 2024? Connect invites you to share your customer stories that focus on solutions for our popular Tech Forum series at HPE Discover in Las Vegas.

Do you have a breakout session for Discover? Share your solutions with your global HPE User Community.

This is your opportunity to make connections that count.

The deadline for consideration is March 1st.

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2023

Join your HPE User Community at
HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect Tech Forum Schedule

Tuesday, June 20

Wednesday, June 21

Save the Date for HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas!

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2022

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Tuesday, June 28

Wednesday, June 29

It’s All Fun and Games at the Hack Shack!

Justify your trip to HPE Discover Las Vegas!

HPE Discover – Connect Worldwide

Discover what’s next in compute innovation: A look back at Discover 2024

Keynote by CEO Antonio Neri: Intelligence has no limits

Compute Spotlight: Accelerate your AI journey

What else did you miss? Sessions and demos re-cap

Explore the best of HPE Discover 2024 for yourself

2024 HPE Discover Las Vegas Connect Tech Forums

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect will host thirty-minute Tech Forums in the Connect HPE User Community booth (DEMO 502 and DEMO 503) in the Transformation Showcase during the entire week of Discover! Registration for the Connect Tech Forums is open now on the HPE Discover Live Agenda Builder.

Tuesday June 18 Schedule

2:00 PM - CF6870 Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery for Mission Critical Systems with HPE Shadowbase Software

3:00 PM - CF6871 HPE GreenLake and StoreOnce - A great reason to bring your cloud workload back on-prem

4:00 PM - CF6873 Revolutionizing Enterprise Servers: Unleashing the Power of AI & Multiverse Management for Unprecedented Cost Savings

5:00 PM - CF7058 Resilience; Ransomware? Done with HPE NonStop!

Wednesday June 19 Schedule

1:00 PM - CF6874 From Data to Insights: Unleashing AI’s Power Across Industries

3:00 PM - CF6872 Cybersecurity Strategies for Ransomware Protection, Compliance and Digital Resilience

4:00 PM - CF6943 Join the HPE Developer Community to collaborate and build

Call For Papers! Would you like to present at HPE Discover 2024 in Las Vegas?

The Call for Papers is Now Open.

Are you ready for HPE Discover Las Vegas the week of June 17, 2024? Connect invites you to share your customer stories that focus on solutions for our popular Tech Forum series at HPE Discover in Las Vegas.

Do you have a breakout session for Discover? Share your solutions with your global HPE User Community.

This is your opportunity to make connections that count.

The deadline for consideration is March 1st.

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2023

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Connect Tech Forum Schedule

Tuesday, June 20

Wednesday, June 21

Save the Date for HPE Discover 2023 in Las Vegas!

Connect Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2022

Join your HPE User Community at HPE Discover in Las Vegas!

Tuesday, June 28

Wednesday, June 29

It’s All Fun and Games at the Hack Shack!

Justify your trip to HPE Discover Las Vegas!

2:00 PM - CF6870
Advanced Data Resilience and Recovery for Mission Critical Systems with HPE Shadowbase Software

3:00 PM - CF6871
HPE GreenLake and StoreOnce - A great reason to bring your cloud workload back on-prem

4:00 PM - CF6873
Revolutionizing Enterprise Servers: Unleashing the Power of AI & Multiverse Management for Unprecedented Cost Savings

5:00 PM - CF7058
Resilience; Ransomware? Done with HPE NonStop!

1:00 PM - CF6874
From Data to Insights: Unleashing AI’s Power Across Industries

3:00 PM - CF6872
Cybersecurity Strategies for Ransomware Protection, Compliance and Digital Resilience

4:00 PM - CF6943
Join the HPE Developer Community to collaborate and build

Join your HPE User Community at
HPE Discover in Las Vegas!