Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : blades

About Converged Infrastructure by Jim Jackson

Kristie Popp — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:00 GMT

by Jim Jackson, About Converged Infrastructure About This Poster Hi, I’m Jim Jackson. I’ve recently joined the HP Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem team as the Vice-President of Marketing and want to take this opportunity to introduce...(read more)

Reduce application deployment times with HP BladeSystem Matrix ISV Solutions

Kristie Popp — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:00 GMT

Joe Sullivan Microsoft Technical Solutions Engineer - APS With the HP BladeSystem Matrix, you can radically change the way applications are deployed in your datacenter. Matrix provides an integrated platform of infrastructure (server, storage, and network...(read more)

Pity the "Server Guy"

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:15:00 GMT

My brother-in-law David manages a mid-sized construction business, and owns seven or eight servers to handle the data. But don't bother asking him how much data they hold, or what processors they use. In fact, it's pointless to ask anyone in his...(read more)

TOP500 Supercomputer list for June 2009

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:53:00 GMT

Since last November, another five spots on this biennial list are taken by systems based on HP server blades. On the latest list , I count 206 of the 500 fastest computer systems in the world -- over 41% -- as being powered by HP BladeSystem. Some of...(read more)

Configuration Matters - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 1

Tony Harvey — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:06:00 GMT

Following on from my first post I'll take a look at the affect hardware configuration will have on the power consumption of the enclosure. To do this I went into the Blade Power Sizer and configured up two equivalent systems. I kept the enclosure...(read more)

Ever have the issue of having the EEPROM fail on a blade enclosure?

Kleinch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:27:00 GMT

I had a Blade Specialist ask what happens when the EEPROM fails on the BladeSystem Enclosure. First of all, just what does the EEPROM do for the blade enclosure. The c-Class Architecture documents on the mid-plane says as the following. http://h20000...(read more)