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Hi there. Welcome to my blog: Martin’s Musings on Mission Critical Computing. For those of you who don’t know me, I run what we call “Business Critical Systems” at HP. Whenever you think of high-end and mission critical computing, it’s most likely my...

Published 07-28-2008 9:19 PM by Martin Fink

Filed under: mission critical servers high-end UNIX BCS

Hidden Freedom

A few month ago at HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas we announced the launch of our new Integrity Nonstop Bladesystem offering . Twice the performance, half the footprint, 100% Nonstop. As part of our launch we also announced a marketing program to give...

Published 07-28-2008 9:23 PM by Martin Fink

Filed under: NonStop mainframe free blades

The UNIX Paradox - Stability

I completely understand the desire for stability in one’s production environment. If an environment is performing activities critical to my business (booking orders, controlling my manufacturing facility, hosting a data warehouse, etc.) and it has been...

Published 09-15-2008 10:17 PM by Martin Fink

Mainframe Claims

In looking at IBM’s website I have noticed a number of claims about our product and their offerings that frankly aren’t true. As such, I wanted to give you my thoughts on what IBM is claiming: IBM Claim 1: z10 mainframes can outperform HP Superdomes on...

Published 10-13-2008 7:14 PM by Martin Fink

Convergence

IBM recently announced their latest quarterly results with what looked like impressive growth for their P-Series systems (29%). What they made sure they weren’t too overt about was that this growth was for "converged System P". See, a few month...

Published 07-30-2008 5:18 PM by Martin Fink

Filed under: IBM p-series servers UNIX

The UNIX Paradox

Over the past few weeks I had the opportunity to visit a number of UNIX customers. In my discussions with them they brought up differing needs. There is a set of customers that are looking to stabilize their environment. This type of customer does not...

Published 08-27-2008 10:43 PM by Martin Fink

Contributions

If you didn’t catch the press a little while back, HP announced the contribution of the AdvFS source code base to the open source community. A lot of times I get asked "why doesn’t HP open source software XYZ". The reality is that open sourcing...

Published 07-30-2008 5:23 PM by Martin Fink

Filed under: AdvFS Linux servers

The UNIX Paradox - Innovation

In previous blog entries I’ve discussed the need for stability in a UNIX operating environment. Let me be clear here, this in NO way means that to stabilize we have to stop all innovation. The major UNIX operating systems have been around for a while...

Published 11-04-2008 8:41 PM by Martin Fink

The Windows, Business Intelligence and Itanium Processor Story

For a while I have been talking about the state and direction of UNIX in the industry. Now, I would like to change gears. I’m often asked is there truly the need for Microsoft Windows and SQL Server to be running on Itanium-based systems such as HP’s...

Published 12-09-2008 6:08 PM by Martin Fink

HP-UX 25th Anniversary

As we come to the close of 2008, I wanted to send out a special thanks to our HP-UX customers. To do this, I want to start by looking backwards to 1983. 1983 was an amazing year: Cabbage Patch Kids were released Gandhi wins Oscar for Best Picture Gas...

Published 12-18-2008 5:17 PM by Martin Fink

9-9-09 and the significance of 9s

September 9 is my birthday, and it reminds me of the significance of 9s. I'm Lorraine Bartlett, VP of Marketing and Strategy for HP's Business Critical Systems business unit. Kirk Bresniker, our CTO, is out talking with customers for a few weeks...

Published 09-09-2009 7:31 PM by Kirksblog

Filed under: mission critical servers high-end UNIX BCS, availability

"Mission Critical" is everywhere.

"Mission Critical" is everywhere. Everything you want, when you want it, where you want it. 3 9s, 5 9s, 7 9s ... don't we just want 100% availability? As customers, don't we expect that? Things sure have changed since 1999 when we announced...

Published 09-16-2009 8:32 PM by Kirksblog

Kirk & Friend's Rants on Mission Critical Computing

So the legion (snort!) of readers of this blog may have noticed the subtle shift in editorial tone in the last posting. That's because my boss, the Martin of Martin's Musing on Mission Critical Computing, was generous enough to let me write a...

Published 07-09-2009 6:19 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

How Thick is Your OS?

HP had a product announcement last month and it's one that I think was pretty exciting. BladeSystem Matrix is a new offering from HP that pulls together compute, storage, networking integrated with a co-designed management, automation, and orchestration...

Published 06-18-2009 9:55 PM by Kirksblog

Filed under: OS Unix HP-UX

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