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Extending BladeSystem Matrix through ISV partnerships

By Karl Paetzel HP Enterprise Solution Alliances This week HP announced new investments to extend the value of BladeSystem Matrix through our ISV partnerships. Matrix is HP’s integrated offering of platform hardware, software, and services that...

Published 11-04-2009 9:55 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade innovation, insight software, BladeSystem Matrix
Designing infrastructure the way IT wants to work

We've been on the Adaptive Infrastructure journey at HP for several years now. This week we are announcing an important milestone: BladeSystem Matrix. We've been really thinking a lot about how customers use IT and ways we can optimize IT infrastructure...

Published 04-22-2009 11:46 AM by Gary Thome

Filed under: BladeSystem, capacity planning, cloud computing, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, blade servers, virtualization, datacenter, blade innovation, insight software, IT convergence, consolidation, virtual infrastructure, data center 3.0, convergence, next generation data center, Insight Control
Did we miss something?

Every time a competitor introduces a new major product we can't help but notice they suddenly get very interested in what HP is blogging during the weeks prior to their announcement. Then when they announce, the story is always a big self-congratulatory "we've figured out what the problem is with existing server/blade architectures". The implication being that blades volume adoption is somehow being constrained by the very thing they have. ...

Published 03-17-2009 1:35 AM by Gary Thome

Filed under: BladeSystem, energy efficiency, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, dell, blade servers, virtualization, market share, virtual servers, blade everything, blade standards, awards, blade innovation, virtualization blade, why blades, power management, Dynamic Power Capping, virtual I/O, Flex-10, Fibre Channel, adaptive infrastructure, insight software, IT convergence, Cisco, x86 server market, virtual infrastructure, engineers, data center 3.0
10Gb Ethernet: Divide and Conquer with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Moore's law has usually been used to predict general trends in semiconductors. While not exactly a perfect analogy, we have seen trends in interconnect bandwidth increase. Ethernet has seen bandwidth increase ten-fold every few years, with the latest transition to 10Gb. Usually these transitions take a while because the costs to transition are high, and the transition to 10Gb has followed that trajectory - until now. ...

Published 11-18-2008 3:53 AM by Gary Thome

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, blade servers, virtualization, virtual servers, Blade news, blade innovation, virtualization blade, virtual machines, why blades, virtual I/O, virtual networks, Flex-10

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Did we miss something?

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