Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtual I/O

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)

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)

Why it's time to think virtualized infrastructure, not just servers.

newtonja — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Just like 'nature abhores a vacuum', it seems that 'IT hates unbalance'. Thinking 'virtual server-only' leads to ad hoc virtualization and unbalance across your architecture and organization. ...(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)

10Gb Ethernet: Divide and Conquer with Virtual Connect Flex-10

Gary Thome — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT

Moore's law has usually been used to predict general trends in semiconductors. While not exactly a perfect analogy, we have seen trends in interconnect bandwidth increase. Ethernet has seen bandwidth increase ten-fold every few years, with the latest transition to 10Gb. Usually these transitions take a while because the costs to transition are high, and the transition to 10Gb has followed that trajectory - until now. ...(read more)

Rethinking networks for virtual servers

newtonja — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:23:00 GMT

The earth is flat. Men can't fly. Chewing gum takes 7 years to travel the digestive track. The point of these, and many other bad examples of 'conventional wisdom'is that far too often we accept what seems to be reasonable advice or thinking. If there's one thing our blade engineers are great at, it's challenging conventional wisdom. For their latest challenge, they asked "why is today's network model so expensive, burn too much power and completely inflexible?" Read on to see what they came up with. ...(read more)