Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : dell

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)

Desperately Seeking Virtual I/O

newtonja — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:11:00 GMT

Our friends at Dell are at it again. In case you don’t pay as much attention to the happenings in the blade world as we do, here’s a recap. Dell has been chasing the HP BladeSystem for some time now. Though bamboozled on several fronts, the search for a competitive virtual I/O solution to Virtual Connect has been the most elusive. Here’s the retrospective from March 2008 to February 2009....(read more)

Server Product of the Year!

newtonja — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:00:00 GMT

We have to pause and bow to our NonStop brethren who took home the GOLD in SearchDataCenter.com's products of the year. Especially sweet is they knocked off the IBM z10 mainframe. Read more about it and see what we mean by "Blade Everything"....(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)

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)

The numbers don’t lie. Customers aren’t stupid

robert.cashman@hp.com — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

There are a lot of materials available to customers and partners around the competitive strengths and weaknesses of the major players in the blade market. Lots of claims, lots of counter-claims, YouTube videos, podcasts, press releases, full-page ads, web banners, reports and the list goes on and on and on. Taking a step back, do customers make their decision based on this kind of marketing? ...(read more)

A customer viewpoint on Dell blades vs HP blades

newtonja — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:35:00 GMT

I ran across a blog post from one of our customers who wanted to see if the grass was greener on Dell's side of the blade fence. I thought some other folks out there might like to see his perspective and thought process. You can read it here on the...(read more)