By Doug Strain
What makes a leader in virtualization? Is it performance? Is it experience and marketshare? Is it being named as #1 in manageability for the leading virtualization platform? Or, in the new math that really measures the strength of a virtualization leader, maybe it is much more than the sum of its parts. This week, VMware released new VMmark results.This benchmark calculates top performance of x86 servers. With this, the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 ranks at the top of 16-core servers, beating out similarly configured Dell and IBM machines. The DL585 result is 4 percent higher than the Dell PowerEdge 905 and 12 percent higher than the IBM System x3850 M2.
HP servers are now #1 in:
- VMware performance
- VMware market share
- VMware integration with systems management tools
What does this mean for customers looking to leverage virtualization technologies? HP has the broadest range of servers and storage certified for VMware.
- HP has the only pre-integrated solution that integrates with core server management tools that gets customers up and running quickly, and simplifies management dramatically
- HP has the most solid managed infrastructure for unified physical and virtual machines
- HP was first to market with innovative technologies like ProLiant Virtual Console
- HP is the only vendor to have blanket integrated hypervisor story spanning VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft
- HP uniquely offers the broadest range of desktop virtualization offerings spanning VDI, Blade PCs and Workstations, and thin clients
- HP is a leading partner for VMware, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft
Interested in more? Contact me, Doug Strain, at doug.strain@hp.com.
Posted
08-08-2008 3:15 PM
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