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OpenVMS 8.4 enters Field Test

Well, I'm catching up on my e-mail after spending a few days on the road. It seems that the last few days have been quite busy around here! I know that some readers of this blog run or work with OpenVMS, and I'm reminded that we often don't...

Published 11-19-2009 4:27 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: HP Integrity, BCS, OpenVMS, ID-VSE, Insight Dynamics - VSE

Getting to the Point - UNIX Clustering

I'm getting over my jet lag from the Frankfurt training, and preparing for the training in Kuala Lumpur in a few weeks. It's great to see colleagues that I've worked with and supported for years in person from time to time, catch up with sales...

Published 11-19-2009 11:37 AM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: mission critical servers, HP-UX 11i, BCS, UNIX, Serviceguard, SGeSAP, SGeRAC

Solaris to Windows Migrations

Based on all the news around Oracle and Sun, I know that there are a lot of Sun customers considering their options, especially if they are looking to replace older systems as the economy stabilizes and they are looking towards some growth next year....

Published 11-16-2009 8:00 AM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, HP Integrity, OS, BCS, UNIX, HP ProLiant, Windows 2008, Windows, Solaris

System Age and Maintenance Costs

One of the reasons that I came home between the training events in London and Frankfurt was to cover a customer briefing at the Cupertino Executive Briefing Center -although it also saved HP money, and let's face it, everyone's budget is still...

Published 11-13-2009 2:04 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: BCS, IT Transformation, system age, maintenance, support

Transatlantic Training and Remembrance Day

Well, I'm at 36,000 feet and coming up on Fort McMurray (yes, I've been to Fort Mac) on a flight back from London on Remembrance Day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_day]. As a Canadian, now living in the US (San Jose), I miss the minute...

Published 11-11-2009 4:50 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, BCS, HP Superdome, VSE, ID-VSE, Insight Dynamics - VSE

Farewell VSE; Hello ID-VSE

It is announcement day here at HP [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/091104xa.html], so there are a large number of new and updated products, services, and visions to take a look at. Many people in the Business Critical Systems group, and actually...

Published 11-04-2009 3:21 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, VSE, OpenVMS, Serviceguard, Windows, ID-VSE, Insight Dynamics - VSE

VIDEO: Meet our HP Integrity Customers (Part 1)

I just am amazed and inspired by the important and forward-looking things our customers are doing with Integrity and Integrity NonStop servers. As I mentioned in a previous blog, last month I was at the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards ceremony...

Published 11-03-2009 8:06 PM by Kirksblog

UNIX and Real-World Performance

In the UNIX world, performance is often one of the big decision factors, especially for scale up workloads. Over the years, I've taken part in a lot of performance discussions, both with customers and with the engineers that design systems and write...

Published 11-02-2009 5:20 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, OpenVMS

Application Transformation & Modernization Virtual Conference

Well, this invite came through my e-mail, and I thought that perhaps it might be of interest to those who read the Mission Critical Computing blog. I've spoken with a number of customers who have multiple UNIX platforms and/or mainframes, and often...

Published 10-30-2009 9:06 AM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: UNIX, Application Modernization

Shared Utility Environments and HP-UX 11i

Hey, I know you… when was the last time you heard that, and didn't remember the person who was saying it? It happened twice in a couple of minutes this morning as I was meeting a customer that I was briefing. Forsythe Technologies,[ http:/...

Published 10-28-2009 2:19 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, VSE, Serviceguard

HP-UX 11i v3 and Power Management

Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management...

Published 10-21-2009 4:25 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active

Mission Critial and Windows

I've read some feedback about this blog that it seems to focus on HP-UX 11i and high end servers. While HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, HP Integrity Non-Stop, and high end servers in general are definitely designed with mission critical workloads in mind, they...

Published 10-16-2009 11:45 AM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, servers, mission critical servers, OS, BCS, HP Superdome, VSE, HP ProLiant, Windows 2008, DL 785, Windows, SQL server

What does it take to deliver mission-critical solutions?

As we have been discussing, requirements for mission-critical capabilities can be found everywhere. So, just how does one go about building an offering that can meet mission-critical status? Let's look at an example I think most of us can understand...

Published 10-12-2009 7:04 PM by Kirksblog

HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5

With all of the activities that have been going on during the last few weeks, I forgot to mention a major release. Let me rectify that ommision today. HP has released the latest update to HP-UX - HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise...

Published 10-08-2009 4:10 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, HP-UX, UNIX, security, Serviceguard, HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5

Superdome 10th Anniversary Kick Off - Part 2

We finished a fabulous Superdome Tech Day yesterday with a number of bloggers. I need to go and see what they have written, but I know that at least one site actually covered the event live. There were also a lot of tweets using the tag #HPSuperdome....

Published 10-06-2009 3:45 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, OpenVMS, Integrity NonStop, mainframe, IDC, NonStop

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