After a break Mainstage split into a Business Intelligence session and a Business Technology Optimization (BTO) session, I went to the later hosted by Robin Purohit, vice president and general manger, Software Products, HP Software & Solutions

Here are some bits I found interesting:

1. There are 15M virtual servers now and it is expected to double in 2 years.
2. Three key areas of change IT will see are: virtualization, SaaS and Web 2.0.
3. Web 2.0 screws up a lot in management, HP is building Web 2.0 compatibility into BTO tools.
4. Dataprotector, monitoring tools and mapping tools are including or working to include virtualization capability.
5. Service Manager and Asset Manager are now available as SaaS.
6. 35% of flash apps violate Adobe best practices. HP released a testing tool which you can download for free called SWFScan. The same technology is built into some of HP’s BTO products. Customers can also do a free trial of our scanning SaaS.
7. One customer cut $5M  in costs just in automating incidents with HP Operations Orchestration.
8. HP Software recently announced a suite of software for operations of Blackberry implementations. See HP and RIM Announce Strategic Alliance to Mobilize Business on BlackBerry for more details.
9. HP Software is publishing configuration management best practices later this month.
10. Brian Byun VP Global Alliances from VMware came on stage and announced announced an expanded partnership with HP to jointly develop software to manage VMware hypervisor technology. Denise Dubie at Network World wrote HP, VMware team to manage virtual servers.

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