Catching-up with Ed Julson at HP Discover Vienna

While I’m here in Vienna, Austria at HP Discover EMEA I’m staying at a really nice, newly remodeled hotel next door to the Schonbrunn Park – it’s a lovely setting, albeit outside the center of Wien. I headed down to the Hotel Café for some coffee and dinner and around the corner comes my old friend Ed Julson from the Product Management team of HP Software. You might recall Ed’s background in the products with HP SOA Systinet and developer integrations with the HP Quality Management & ALM suites – working to extend quality and SV HP "removing constraints"governance earlier in the lifcycle. Cool stuff, but it certainly has proven to be an uphill (upstream) battle.

In catching up, Ed told me about some of the latest items he is working on including his technical breakout session ‘Embracing the Cloud Gracefully’ (on Tuesday, November 29th at 4:30 PM in Session Room #4)
Here are a few of the interesting things that Ed shared with me about his session:

1) much of the functionality of Systinet has already been integrated into/with the HP ALM platform with regards to functionality and value – which perhaps comes with a little less governance and a little more lifecycle enablement.

2) when it comes to cloud, the old “removing constraints” virtualization value proposition are really hitting home for the black-box of REST-based public services; the early work in the application lifecycle absolutely requires virtualization.

3) emulation of the real-world latencies of those services (real or virtualized) is critical considering the platform for the end-point is now mobile and highly latent; which might require some Shunra Software for complete and proper emulation.

Just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Ed’s experience and vision for the future, but I’m sure he’ll have more to share on Tuesday!