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Estimating power consumption?

Need to estimate power consumption and proper selection of components? Check out the HP Power Advisor . Other features are also provided including a condensed bill of materials, a cost of owner ship calculator, and a power report. Reduce power consumption...

Published 07-13-2009 9:18 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: ProLiant, performance, data center management, power savings, energy efficiency, HP Power Advisor

9.9.99 to 9.9.09: the meaning of 9s

In 10 years the definition of "mission critical" has evolved and along with it the demand for continuous uptime has increased. What does "mission critical" mean these days? For me, I expect to be able to do what ever I want - banking...

Published 09-14-2009 9:04 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: Integrity, mission critical

“Spot the POD” Drawing

The "Spot the POD" Drawing is now closed. We will be randomly choosing one winner from the eligible entries on Friday, July 18, 2008. Here are some of the photos posted as the POD made its journey through Silicon Valley! Thank you all for participating...

Published 07-16-2008 6:22 AM by aimeeschoaf

Filed under: HPC, scale-out, cooling, power, container, cloud computing, servers, datacenter

Small Form Factor Drive Storage Doubles

Have you been waiting for higher capacities on your 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives? HP will launch the 300GB 3G SAS 10K SFF Enterprise Drive shortly. With this drive you will get more for less: - More storage capacity than any other SFF drive...

Published 12-02-2008 8:49 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: servers, x86, ProLiant, SFF, drive, SAS

HP Tops TBR Customer Satisfaction Survey

Technology Business Research (TBR) recently released its 2Q-2008 x86 Server Customer Satisfaction Study results, and the news is EXCELLENT for HP this quarter. HP ProLiant achieved the #1 ranking in both the Weighted Satisfaction Index (WSI) and the Overall...

Published 08-20-2008 7:33 PM by Gordon Casey

Filed under: scale-out, servers, datacenter, virtualization, x86, customer satisfaction

Energy Star for Servers - Get the scoop on who's got it and who doesn't

By Lauren Trost, Product Marketing Manager, Power Supplies The topic on everyone's mind is ENERGY EFFICIENCY and rightfully so. Energy costs have reached the point that power and cooling a data center is almost as costly as the equipment inside. IT...

Published 03-30-2009 2:45 AM by s_mathur

Filed under: ProLiant, energy saving, EVA, evergy efficiency, Energy Star

Doubling Down

In blackjack, if you have a great hand versus the house, you can double your bet or “double down” to show the confidence that you have in winning it all. HP’s commitment to our new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is a clear signal...

Published 06-03-2009 8:44 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement

Will 6Gb/s SAS make a difference for you?

Some of you read my post on drive performance, ' How fast are your drives? ,' and have wondered if investing in a 6Gb/s SAS storage infrastructure makes sense for your environment. Traditional SAS systems have a transfer rate of 3Gb/s, so the...

Published 07-13-2009 3:17 AM by s_mathur

Filed under: SAS, 6Gbps SAS, hard drive, storage

Nascent

By Christian Post "Nascent: coming or recently having come into existence." It would be a short argument to suggest that containerized datacenters are nascent. They have been developed and deployed for years to serve mobile, military, and disaster...

Published 07-16-2008 6:13 AM by aimeeschoaf

Filed under: HPC, scale-out, cooling, power, container, cloud computing, servers, datacenter

Solid State Drives Go Universal

By J. Daley. HP has been shipping SSDs in Mid-Range (EVA) and High End (XP) Storage solutions for a while, offering extremely high performance in Tiered Storage applications. Certain HP notebooks and blades also support solid state in limited configurations...

Published 09-21-2009 2:53 AM by s_mathur

Filed under: solid state, power savings

HP’s recently introduced ProLiant SL “skinless” server line snags top spot in performance per watt benchmark

By Dave Peterson, group manager, Industry Standard Servers Product Marketing HP’s recently introduced ProLiant SL “skinless” server line snags top spot in performance per watt benchmark Earlier this year at the 2009 World Championships...

Published 11-05-2009 8:48 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: performance, benchmarks, ProLiant SL

HP and Sun partnership: Why it Matters to the customer

By Jeff Carlat You thought it would never happen: arch rivals, HP and Sun, partnering. Well, I have news for you: HP and Sun are collaborating, and we are both excited about it. If you haven't already heard, yesterday, we announced a three-year agreement...

Published 02-26-2009 10:32 PM by carlat409

Filed under: servers, x86, customer satisfaction, ProLiant

Unleashing the power of six-cores with AMD Istanbul

By Paul Gottsegen, Vice-president, Integrated Marketing, Enterprise Servers & Storage, HP Today, AMD is introducing their new Six-Core AMD Opteron "Istanbul" processors. For our customers, the performance gains of AMD's new chip combined...

Published 06-01-2009 3:26 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: ProLiant, AMD, G6, Istanbul, processor, server

Check out & rate the info videos on how HP thin clients provide a superior Citrix XenDesktop experience

Check out how HP thin clients provide a superior Citrix XenDesktop experience through informational videos just posted on Citrixtv.com: Complete Solution Overview: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#video/677 (This is just an introduction -- be sure to also view...

Published 06-25-2009 3:27 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: Citrix, HP Thin Client, XenDesktop

Solid State Drives and DL380 G6 Rev Up SQL Server

By S.R., HP Industry Standard Servers. The HP ProLiant DL380 G6 achieved the #1 TPC-H 100GB price/performance spot for servers running Microsoft SQL Server. This benchmark is the industry's first ever TPC-H publication using Solid State Drives, demonstrating...

Published 09-21-2009 2:39 AM by s_mathur

Filed under: solid state, dl380

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