Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtual connect

About Converged Infrastructure by Jim Jackson

Kristie Popp — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:00 GMT

by Jim Jackson, About Converged Infrastructure About This Poster Hi, I’m Jim Jackson. I’ve recently joined the HP Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem team as the Vice-President of Marketing and want to take this opportunity to introduce...(read more)

Harnessing Horsepower: Cores, Capacity, and Code

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:33:00 GMT

Last week at IDF , two Intel technologists spoke about different fixes to the problem of compute capacity outpacing the typical server's ability to handle it. For the past 5 years, x86 CPU makers have boosted performance by adding more cores within...(read more)

What's new for blades in plain language

newtonja — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:04:00 GMT

Today, we launched some new and updated technologies that I thought you might find useful. Here's the news in language as plain as it gets in IT. ...(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)

Designing infrastructure the way IT wants to work

Gary Thome — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:46:00 GMT

We've been on the Adaptive Infrastructure journey at HP for several years now. This week we are announcing an important milestone: BladeSystem Matrix. We've been really thinking a lot about how customers use IT and ways we can optimize IT infrastructure...(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)

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)

Aaron Delp: Traditional Expansion Options for Blades and Virtualization

newtonja — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:23:00 GMT

Aaron continued his series, ' Blades and Virtualization Aren’t Mutually Exclusive ' this week. It's a very good read, especially if you're new to virtualization on blades and trying to figure out the best configuration. Part 3 covered...(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)

Blade Hacks: NIC teaming recommendations with Virtual Connect

newtonja — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:43:00 GMT

A simple question came across the virtual watercooler yesterday and the experts weighed in with some great advice. Question: What are the recommended NIC teaming options when using Virtual Connect? Any conditions where one setting would be preferable over another? ...(read more)

How would you build a cloud starter kit?

newtonja — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:13:00 GMT

Sometimes our blade ambassadors pass questions and ideas around our virtual watercooler. Today's most interesting question was: "If you were asked to give a basic spec with a BladeSystem for a large cloud-type, general-purpose computing platform using VMware (up to 100 chassis) for a large corporation, how would you build it and why?"...(read more)

Data Center Ants and Grasshoppers

newtonja — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Will 2009 be a tough year for IT departments, and us tech vendors too? Duh. Will it be as bad as the article I read today, 2009 - Thomas the Tank's journey to IT Hell ? We shall see. Too often, tough times inspire dark predictions, preying on our...(read more)

ESX now supports Virtual Connect Flex-10

newtonja — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:32:00 GMT

We've had a few questions in our forums and blogs about when the 'official' word would come from VMware on Virtual Connect Flex-10 support. It finally made its way to the documents online over the holidays. http://www.vmware.com/resources...(read more)

Why Blades? Less wires.

newtonja — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:51:00 GMT

There are a lot of reasons to move to blades and we love to include most, if not all in our typical sales pitch. Power, cooling, space, money, time, flexiblity, yada, yada, yada. But today, I just want to talk about one aspect of Why Blades: Less wires (or 'dramatic cable consolidation' in IT marketing speak)...(read more)