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Tukwila is Here – What’s Next?

Today HP joined Intel in announcing the latest quad-core Itanium 9300 processor, previously known as "Tukwila". This is a significant step forward to help customers advance business performance and future-proof their technology infrastructure...

Published 02-08-2010 8:58 PM by Kirksblog

Free HP Integrity Blade Starter Kit for new customers

It's February 1, and with a new month comes a new promotion. If you are an IBM or Sun UNIX customer, and are interested in taking a look at HP Integrity blades and HP-UX, we have a new offer for you. It is a Free HP Integrity Blade Starter Kit - basically...

Published 02-01-2010 8:29 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, BCS, UNIX, HP BladeSystem, c-Class, virtualization, BL860c, Converged Infrastructure, Sun, IBM

Oracle + Sun: Back to the Future?

I caught parts of the Oracle + Sun web cast last week. Like many people, I've been thinking about the content of the web cast. In particular, Larry Ellison and other speakers mentioned moving back to the concept of integrated systems, much like in...

Published 02-01-2010 8:13 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: servers, mission critical servers, BCS, UNIX, maintenance, support, Oracle, Sun, IT infrastructure

New Converged Infrastructure - Blade Connect Community Blog

It certainly have been a busy day around here, at least for posting to the blog. Another interesting piece of information just made it into my e-mail inbox. HP is in the process of updating its web site, and you'll see changes show up over the next...

Published 01-28-2010 12:27 AM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: HP BladeSystem, c-Class, HP

Another Green IT Discussion

I had the pleasure of delivering a customer briefing for a power company. Needless to say, when I asked my standard question about what is more important - server density with higher power usage versus lower density and lower power usage, the answer was...

Published 01-27-2010 10:24 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: cooling, power, density, Thermal Logic, The Green Grid, Insight Control

Reducing Maintenance Costs

Well, it is a big day in the UNIX industry - the Sun acquisition by Oracle has been completed, and the UNIX landscape is changing. I caught a bit of the Oracle + Sun webcast between calls. I found that it was really interesting that the first part of...

Published 01-27-2010 5:45 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: UNIX, IT Transformation, maintenance, HP, Converged Infrastructure, Oracle, Sun

Avatar, Weta Digital, and HP BladeSystem

I finally got out to see the movie Avatar in 3D last week with a bunch of friends. I enjoyed the movie, and the animation and 3D effects were wonderful. What is more interesting is the infrastructure behind the movie. A lot of the work was done on HP...

Published 01-20-2010 9:58 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, power, density, HP Integrity, BCS, Integrity NonStop, NonStop, HP ProLiant, HP Integrity NonStop, HP BladeSystem, c-Class, BL2x220c, Weta Digital, BL870c, BL860c, Avatar

2009 Tested Our Resilience

2009 was a tough year for many people around the globe and right here in California. We saw many businesses struggle to keep afloat, high unemployment rates, foreclosures, poverty and cuts to community services and charities that we all love and depend...

Published 01-14-2010 9:22 PM by Kirksblog

Measuring Uptime

How do you measure uptime? Is it becoming more important in your environment? Is downtime costing your company more or less today when compared to a few years ago? For many customers, the amount of downtime that they experience is increasing, often due...

Published 01-14-2010 6:55 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: servers, VSE, Serviceguard, clustering, virtual machines, uptime, virtualization

HP-UX 11i v3 on YouTube

Well, it is a slow news week in the enterprise space, so I figured that I would send out something fun. We've recently posted a couple of videos about the high level value proposition for HP-UX 11i v3. They are available at: http://www.youtube.com...

Published 01-07-2010 11:03 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, OpenVMS, Integrity NonStop, NonStop, Serviceguard, Windows 2008, Windows, Linux, HP Integrity NonStop, Disaster Proof

Happy New Year!

Hello, After a two week holiday shutdown, myself and most of my co-workers are back to work here at HP. I know that with the company mostly shut down, I didn't return to find too many e-mails in my Inbox. You can expect to see regular blog postings...

Published 01-04-2010 9:06 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: holidays, Happy New Year

Happy Holidays!

We are in the midst of the holiday season this year. HP, at least in the US, is shutting down for a 2 week break, and as tradition has it, the last day before the holiday break is a half day. In fact, my last conference calls and meetings of the year...

Published 12-18-2009 4:20 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: vacation, holidays, break, best wishes, Happy New Year

Realize the Future Tour

I was just speaking with a co-worker during my last conference call for the year. He mentioned that he was putting together some customer video for an event that will visit a number of cities around the world in the new year: HP's Realize the Future...

Published 12-18-2009 4:12 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: executive, event, realize the future, san francisco

Are you paying all year for a holiday spike in traffic?

Over the years, I've met with many customers who have spikes in their holiday traffic. I've spoken with a southern hemisphere beverage company, who has a huge spike in orders the last Monday morning before Christmas. I've spoken with a customer...

Published 12-17-2009 4:48 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: Integrity, HP Integrity, BCS, VSE, Insight Dynamics - VSE, workload management, partitioning, clustering, Instant Capacity

Linux vs. UNIX – shouldn’t they be equals?

From Brian Cox, the director of Software Product Management and Marketing in HP Business Critical Systems... I frequently am asked the question by customers which operating system should they use for their mission-critical environment. My HP field colleagues...

Published 12-16-2009 5:14 PM by jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com

Filed under: mission critical servers, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows, Linux

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