Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure : virtualization blade

Three Opinions (But One Counts More)

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:32:00 GMT

I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor...(read more)

Virtually (and literally) #1

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:41:00 GMT

This week we released VMMark results for the new HP BL490c G6 server blade. The scores establish the BL490c as the highest performing 2-socket server blade for virtualization -- eclipsing blades offered by IBM, Dell, and Cisco. By the way, this 2-socket...(read more)

Learn more about Solid State Disks (SSDs)

newtonja — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:45:00 GMT

I ran across this website and a great tech brief about the good and bad of SSD technology so you can make up your own mind and decide if SSD is right for you....(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)

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)

We're huge in Japan!!!

newtonja — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:23:00 GMT

It seems our new virtualization blades -- just like Spinal Tap -- is huge in Japan! Our team just sent over this clip from a recent show-and-tell for reporters overseas. Roughly translated, he said "Most servers only take virtualization from 1 to...(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)

Introducing the world's first virtualization blade

newtonja — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:00 GMT

If you were going to build a server blade for virtual machines from the ground up, what would it look like? That's the question we posed to the blade engineering team. The ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade was their answer. ...(read more)