Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtual infrastructure

Thoughts on #HPTF keynote

newtonja — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:29:00 GMT

After thinking over Paul Millers' presentation last night, here's what stuck with me. Convergence is the mega-trend It's a bigger idea with bigger implications than consolidation and unification - it's transformational Convergence collapses...(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)

Mike Klayko, CEO of Brocade nailed it

newtonja — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:49:00 GMT

I'm a sucker for unscripted honesty. Kudos to Mr. K for taking a deep breath after Cisco's UCS and Project California grandstanding to put some reality in front of the rhetoric. In less than 3 minutes, he really boiled all the hype down and simply articulated what a lot of our customers and partners are thinking too. Watch his video....(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)

Builder versus Plumber

newtonja — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Rob Enderle recently added some great insight into a question we posed a couple of weeks ago, "What If a Plumber Built Your House". When thinking about the question if you wanted a plubmer to build your house, he answered with "maybe". Here are some of Rob's excellent points from his post, "Cisco, EMC and VMware: Cloud Computing Could Bring Strange Bedfellows", plus our thoughts....(read more)

Inside Peek at Pentel's Virtualized Infrastructure

newtonja — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:37:00 GMT

Pentel's IT shop is one of many that intuitively get the power of a bladed infrastructure. I have to LOL when folks think it's about servers on their side. It's a way to integrate, unify and converge the old racked, stacked and wired world...(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 Busts Blade Power Myths

newtonja — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:06:00 GMT

Aaron Delp has started a series on blades titled "Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive" where he shares a ton of personal research and experience with blades. Check out his first two articles where he busts the blade power myths....(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)