Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : Shorty

New review of HP blades for small sites

newtonja — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:52:00 GMT

Recently, we shipped a BladeSystem c3000 (or 'Shorty' to those in the know), to Dave Mitchell at the IT Pro for a hands-on review. Inside we added the latest virtualization blades, virtual storage with HP LeftHand and some other new gadgets to...(read more)

Win a free blade infrastructure

newtonja — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:20:00 GMT

Here's your chance to have the baddest, low-ridin', pimped out BladeSystem on the planet. Together with Microsoft, we're launching a contest for 2 lucky businesses to get a total infrastructure overhaul with the latest HP BladeSystem c3000, aka 'Shorty' and Microsoft Small Business suite. Learn how you could win a new solution valued up to $36,000....(read more)

Shorty gets new threads

newtonja — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:23:00 GMT

My friend and colleague Rob Cashman was at the WW Microsoft Partner Conference last week and snapped this pic of a pimped out Shorty (aka, BladeSystem c3000 ), complete with flames. This was part of a special promotion for Microsoft resellers to learn...(read more)

One million and counting

Gary Thome — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:16:00 GMT

1,000,000. One million. 106. No matter how you write it, that is a big number. I’ve never tried to count to one million. But now we have sold our millionth blade server; which is cause for reflection....(read more)

Shorty for President?

newtonja — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:17:00 GMT

I know the HP BladeSystem c3000 is popular, but this is getting out of hand. See this Internet news report on the growing popularity of Shorty....(read more)