Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : power management

Applications Matter - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 2

Tony Harvey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:21:00 GMT

How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power...(read more)

Is Power Capping ready For Prime Time

Tony Harvey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:06:00 GMT

Mike Manos responded to my post about power capping being ready for prime time with a very well thought out and argued post that really looks at this from a datacenter manager's perspective, rather than just my technology focused perspective. I'm...(read more)

Datacenter Power Allocation

Tony Harvey — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:24:00 GMT

I was going to add some more details to Chuck's post on how a blade server powers on, but I got sidetracked by a brilliant post from Mike Manos of Digital Realty on the real basics of what is going with power in your datacenter. What Mike is explaining...(read more)

Taking a closer look at the "Power On" capabilities for blade chassis

Kleinch — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:55:00 GMT

Some of our Blade Specialists give us the workings of the BladeSystem "Power switch" . David gives us these words of wisdom. "I've always referred to the "power switch" on the front of the blade not as a power switch but a...(read more)

Chargeback Glitch

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:25:00 GMT

Here’s a story about unexpected behavior prompted by some chargeback rules at Pfizer . (By 'chargeback' I mean the budgeting scheme where IT resources are metered, then costs are attributed to the business units that consume them.) Larry Cannell...(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)

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)

Datacenter power is officially a business problem

newtonja — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:00 GMT

I found this article last week and thought I'd share it with you. Inside, Michelle Bailey from IDC makes some good points about just how big of an issue power and cooling has become. ...(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)