Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : economics

IDC: Right numbers, wrong words

Daniel Bowers — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:18:00 GMT

I read a clip from IDC guy Dan Harrington explaining why he thought the economic downturn crimped x86 server deployments more than Unix server deployments. "It's easier to freeze purchases on x86 [servers], which are a commodity at this point...(read more)

From #HPTF: Pondering the HP POD

newtonja — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:51:00 GMT

I found the HP POD to be one of the most compelling demo areas at this weeks' HP Technology Forum. Being able to emerse yourself in the POD and touch and feel what it takes to deploy and support 3000 or more systems is amazing. Every detail has to...(read more)