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HP leads the market with ENERGY STAR qualified servers

By Lauren Trost. The EPA completed their first ENERGY STAR® specification for server products on May 15, 2009. Starting with the best selling servers in the industry, HP announced the immediate availability of ENERGY STAR® compliant DL380 and...

Published 05-29-2009 3:09 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: energy saving, Energy Star, thermal logic, dl360, dl380, dynamic power caping

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

Views of the HP POD

The HP POD had a very busy week indeed... and we had some great photos taken while it was in the Silicon Valley. Here are a few of those pics - thank you for participating! For more information on the HP POD, go to: www.hp.com/go/pod . Look for the HP...

Published 07-18-2008 6:35 PM by aimeeschoaf

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

“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

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

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

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

Congratulations to the winner of our "Spot the POD" Drawing!

Congratulations to Kenn Durrence, who was drawn as the winner of our "Spot the POD" Drawing. Kenn captured the HP POD in San Jose. Congratulations, Kenn! Please email aimee.schoaf@hp.com with your contact information! Thank you all for participating...

Published 07-18-2008 5:18 PM by aimeeschoaf

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

AMD launches quad-core Shanghai processors

This is an exciting time for our partner, AMD, as they launch their newest family of processors, and HP is pleased that our ProLiant portfolio will offer new capabilities computing to customers of all sizes. The new "Shanghai" products (Quad...

Published 11-17-2008 1:47 AM by aimeeschoaf

Filed under: servers, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, multi-core processor, AMD

HP’s Virtual Math: 1+1+1=#1.

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...

Published 08-08-2008 3:15 PM by aimeeschoaf

Filed under: servers, VMWare, management, virtualization

Now I get the HP POD. See what we are learning at the HP Tech Forum 2009 POD demos, sessions & tours

The HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter) is stealing the show at the HP Tech Forum 2009. The POD is set up and you can tour the POD, talk to the experts and also see the power house running the POD. Kevin Egan & Steve Cumings from HP are informative...

Published 06-17-2009 4:06 PM by Kristie Popp

Filed under: cooling, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, evergy efficiency, performance, iLO, server, power savings, energy efficiency, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo, HP Tech Forum

KVM or iLO?

By Ankit Gupta. KVM switches play an important part in designing the data center solution where you can have multiple server access at a given point of time . Many new technologies have evolved in the past 5 years and we have always believed that KVM...

Published 04-13-2009 2:18 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: Integrated Lights Out, iLO, data center management, KVM

Nehalem is not the only thing new with G6...

By Jeff Fisher. Nehalem is not the only thing new with G6; don’t forget the DDR3 memory! All the talk about Intel’s new Nehalem processors (the Xeon 5500 series) leads one to maybe think that these new processors are all there is to faster server performance;...

Published 04-13-2009 12:50 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: memory, DDR3, G6

HP DDR3 DIMMs break through the bandwidth barrier

By Jeff Fisher. If you've figured out the "typical" bandwidth speeds with the new DDR3 memory in all the new Intel-based Nehalem servers, you might recognize performance bandwidth tables like these; DPC = DIMMs Per Channel 1 DPC = 1333MHz...

Published 04-28-2009 6:04 PM by s_mathur

Filed under: memory, DDR3

I received a new HPC Multi-core server today!

About this blog series - This is the 1 st posting of a series which describes the experiences of engineers who test the performance of HPC servers and server clusters at HP. My name is Dave Field. I lead an engineering group at HP - we measure the performance...

Published 09-23-2008 7:16 PM by d-field

Filed under: HPC, servers, BladeSystem, ProLiant, multi-core processor, performance measurement

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