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To say we fully enjoyed our time at this year’s HPE Discover would be to miss the point. This was the largest in-person gathering in which we have participated in the past two plus years and it proved to be well worth the wait. Many thanks to the Connect Team for making this experience real and a big thank you, too, to the team at NTI for giving Margo and me every opportunity to simply take it all in. This event was the hard launch of the latest Connect Tech Forum, Business Integration and Analysis and that for us was the highlight, but I am getting ahead of myself. What follows here is a number of brief notes I posted in the lead up to the show and then as the days progressed and they do tell the story. Some of it offers up intrigue even as other comments praise the efforts of HPE. One thing is for certain and that is the presence NonStop has within HPE. With the swing to GreenLake as an option, I am expecting to hear more from the NonStop team about GreenLake in the coming months.

Somehow Margo and I arrived in London exactly as the Queen’s Jubilee was in full swing well. Road closures; major thoroughfares subject to extensive re-routing; Police force out in numbers and yes, there were even sightings of the Queens Household Cavalry between buildings. All in, a complete shemozzle on the weekend we arrived. And yet, we couldn’t hide our enthusiasm for being abroad for the first time since COVID took hold, but as we scheduled this ourselves we could hardly hold anyone accountable. The occasion was the BITUG BIG SIG event and we wouldn’t have missed it for well, anything. Huge thanks go out to the folks at NTI who made the week in London possible and as for the socializing with the British NonStop community it is hard to ignore just how important Chapter and RUG events truly are. In an environment where the information ebb and flow needs to be watched carefully, being given a keynote session in the big hall was more than welcomed. If you haven’t been keeping up with