Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : Flex-10

Harnessing Horsepower: Cores, Capacity, and Code

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:33:00 GMT

Last week at IDF , two Intel technologists spoke about different fixes to the problem of compute capacity outpacing the typical server's ability to handle it. For the past 5 years, x86 CPU makers have boosted performance by adding more cores within...(read more)

What's new for blades in plain language

newtonja — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Today, we launched some new and updated technologies that I thought you might find useful. Here's the news in language as plain as it gets in IT. ...(read more)

Another winner …

kendallmblog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:16:00 GMT

As many of our readers know, HP Virtual Connect is not only a technology that enables them to connect more while spending less, but that it is also an industry award winning technology. One of our newest members of the Virtual Connect family is HP Virtual...(read more)

Virtual Connect now helps converge infrastructure (and lower costs) even more!

kendallmblog — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:41:00 GMT

On Monday, April 20 th , we announced a new Virtual Connect family member and expanded capabilities for all Virtual Connect products. We’ve see a great deal of momentum building behind virtualization and infrastructure convergence - and these enhancements...(read more)

Did we miss something?

Gary Thome — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:35:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

ESX now supports Virtual Connect Flex-10

newtonja — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:32:00 GMT

We've had a few questions in our forums and blogs about when the 'official' word would come from VMware on Virtual Connect Flex-10 support. It finally made its way to the documents online over the holidays. http://www.vmware.com/resources...(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)

Rethinking networks for virtual servers

newtonja — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:23:00 GMT

The earth is flat. Men can't fly. Chewing gum takes 7 years to travel the digestive track. The point of these, and many other bad examples of 'conventional wisdom'is that far too often we accept what seems to be reasonable advice or thinking. If there's one thing our blade engineers are great at, it's challenging conventional wisdom. For their latest challenge, they asked "why is today's network model so expensive, burn too much power and completely inflexible?" Read on to see what they came up with. ...(read more)