Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : innovation

Three Opinions (But One Counts More)

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:32:00 GMT

I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor...(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)

Why is Matrix important? Innovation, integration and execution

newtonja — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:00 GMT

Now that the Oracle/Sun news is taking a breath, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge some folks who paid attention and to add some other thoughts about why Matrix is important. ...(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)

Yeah, but where do I insert the floppy disk?

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:25:00 GMT

A couple of weeks ago, lots of server admins started deploying the new HP BL460c G6 server blade. Coincidentally, this year is the 20th anniversary of the Compaq SystemPro 386/33 -- the first "PC server" (to use the 1989 throw-back term for...(read more)

8 Cool Projects found inside HP Labs

newtonja — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:35:00 GMT

ComputerWorld took a tour recently of HP Labs to check out some of the things we're working on from the desktop to the datacenter. We are really fortunate that we have these folks behind us. What's even more fortunate for our customers is that...(read more)

The data center vision you can buy

newtonja — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:04:00 GMT

The late 1990's were fun. We had Pokeman, Pottermania, and this new virus called Reality TV. Oh, and how can we forget the IT vision-du-jour from every tech vendor under the sun promising to define the future of the data center. Signed, sealed, but not quite delivered. Read more to see how that world has changed in the last few years....(read more)

Thermal Logic – The coolest ideas for your hottest problems

Gary Thome — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:46:00 GMT

Today we are announcing some significant Thermal Logic innovations. I'm sure if you're reading this first, you are thinking "wait, here comes another vendor claim that they are most energy efficient!" I'd hate to disappoint you, but we do believe that addressing power and cooling challenges is much more than just a server that takes less power. Okay we do have a new energy efficient blade server. In fact we have a portfolio of energy efficient blades servers. But wait, there is more! Really! ...(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)