It's exciting to realize that HP ProLiant is about to turn 15 years old.  At the same time, it makes me feel old when I think back to my days as a product manager at Compaq, responsible for the launch of the product family.  That was a few gray hairs ago, let me tell you!

Fifteen years and over 15 million ProLiants sold around the globe.  That's a long road for this technology to travel and remain the world's #1 x86 server at the same time.  Can you think of any other product, in ANY other industry or segment, that can claim it's been #1 in the market for 15 years?  I can't!

You know one of the best things about the ProLiant family of products?  It's all the innovation that's been launched by smart and creative engineers, out-of-the box thinking customers and partners who always challenge us to do more and more.  Yeah, that's right.  HP ProLiant is a team effort.

In its first year, the ProLiant family brought a number of innovations to market, including:

• SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessor) architecture;
• Offline backup processor with automated recovery;
• 2MB Transaction Blaster;
• Fast Wide SCSI;
• Advanced Error Checking & Correcting memory;
• SMART array controller;
• and Hot Plug drives.

Today, we see evidence of ProLiant innovation in our newest family of products, the BladeSystem.  The approach we took to bring a blade-based infrastructure to life for customers is very much like the drive and ingenuity used to launch ProLiant 15 years ago.  It's exciting to see that spirit is still thriving within HP.

I want to hear from you!  Tell me what's your favorite thing about ProLiant.