Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtualization

More Impressions - VWworld 2009 - Putting virtualization to work to change the economics of IT

Kristie Popp — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:39:00 GMT

Day 2. I sat through two sessions this morning, one with Dr. Stephen Herrod on the future of Virtualization: From the Mobile Phone to the and the Cloud and the other Conquering costs and complexities in a virtualized environment: Research and case studies...(read more)

VWworld 2009 Impressions - Growing challenges for IT – clear opportunities with virtualization

Kristie Popp — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Data centers around the world are wrestling with a common set of challenges. Over half are not optimized for agility. Most are not agile enough to easily respond to changing client demands or unexpected execution problems. In many data centers, a good...(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)

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)

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)

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)

9 Trends in 2009: What's Hot and What's Not in the Data Center

newtonja — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:30:00 GMT

We can’t let Illuminata, Gartner, IDC and Forrester have all the fun, so we sat down and came up with our own What’s Hot and What’s Not in the Data Center list for 2009. Read on for the top 9 things in '09 plus the runner-ups that just missed the list. If you don't see your hot button in 2009 here, let us here about it!...(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)

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)

When is choice not choice?

Gary Thome — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:36:00 GMT

Following on the heels of our virtualization launch last week, Dell made a virtualization announcement of their own yesterday. They announced a variety of third party products they now support and re-announced the blades servers they introduced last week, but this time referring to their virtualization design. Curiously they compared their two-socket M805 full-height 16-DIMM blade to our four-socket blades, ignoring our two-socket half-height 16-DIMM ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade announced last week. I guess comparing their blade against an HP blade that is half the size wouldn't have sounded as good. ...(read more)

Why blade servers and virtualization

newtonja — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Earlier this week, we talked about the new virtualization blade and why it's a perfect fit for virtual servers. Here's 7 of our most influential customers explaining why blade servers and virtualization have been a big win for their business....(read more)