Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : Blade news

Information on DDR3 memory lock-step technology

Kleinch — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:51:00 GMT

Lots of questions about advaced memory protection and capabilities with the latest HP ProLiant G6 server announcement. HP BladeSystem Announcing today page: www.hp.com/go/bladesystem/news How does DDR3 memory work and one of the new features is memory...(read more)

BladeSystem Supercomputers

Gary Thome — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:34:00 GMT

The latest Top 500 supercomputer list just got released. BladeSystem c-Class was well represented once again. With 201 entries (40.2%) of the top 500, it has the most entries of any product line. The ever popular ProLiant BL460c made up the most entries...(read more)

10Gb Ethernet: Divide and Conquer with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Gary Thome — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

When is choice not choice?

Gary Thome — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:36:00 GMT

Following on the heels of our virtualization launch last week, Dell made a virtualization announcement of their own yesterday. They announced a variety of third party products they now support and re-announced the blades servers they introduced last week, but this time referring to their virtualization design. Curiously they compared their two-socket M805 full-height 16-DIMM blade to our four-socket blades, ignoring our two-socket half-height 16-DIMM ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade announced last week. I guess comparing their blade against an HP blade that is half the size wouldn't have sounded as good. ...(read more)

Blades in Earnings Spotlight Today

newtonja — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:54:00 GMT

Dont worry, we dont have big heads. We know its a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse. But its always good to take a step back and let the team celebrate a job well done. Heres a sample of some of todays HP earning news featuring blade results. And some pics of that great team behind it. ...(read more)

Follow the blade team on Twitter!

newtonja — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:56:00 GMT

We’re going to start using Twitter a lot more to announce blog posts, news, new features, special offers, events, and more. If you want to be one of the first ones to know, make sure to follow us on Twitter !...(read more)