Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : market share

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)

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)

Has anyone seen a Mainframe?

robert.cashman@hp.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:11:00 GMT

There is a phrase I learned while in Texas called “lipsticking a pig." It's the art of making something out to be a lot better than it really is. With this in mind, I was to read the prepared remarks from IBM’s latest earnings release . IBM’s...(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)

Blade Standards: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Richard Fichera — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:00:00 GMT

There's been a rash of coverage in the trade press recently about the role that lack of standards plays as an inhibitor to the blades market. But before we run away in the direction of standards, we need to answer a fundamental question - do we loose more than we gain by designing and building standard blade servers, and how different is the real data center environment today when considering vendor lock-in in an environment of standard servers? ...(read more)

Blades in Earnings Spotlight Today

newtonja — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:54:00 GMT

Dont worry, we dont have big heads. We know its a short trip from the penthouse to the outhouse. But its always good to take a step back and let the team celebrate a job well done. Heres a sample of some of todays HP earning news featuring blade results. And some pics of that great team behind it. ...(read more)

The Rumble Down Under. . . On Blade Standards

newtonja — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:09:00 GMT

This whole topic of 'blade incompatibility' really bugs Gary, Richard and me. If you want to know why, tune your web browser to the panel discussion with IBM's Doug Balog, Intel's Kurt Lender and the referee, er, moderator, Rob Mitchell from Computerworld. You can also check back here in a few days where we'll share our thoughts in a new blog and then we'll give you a review of the discussion. ...(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)