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Thursday is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, a time when families often get together to give thanks for the things they most appreciate. I snapped this pic inside one of the server development labs at HP; it looks like even the 'extended family' of blade servers decided to get together this...
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By Erin Collopy This week, HP’s high-performance computing (HPC) team lands in Portland for the annual Supercomputing 09 conference (SCO9), where they’ll be meeting with loads of customers, partners, press and industry analysts to discuss the hot new technologies and trends in HPC. To coincide...
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Joe Sullivan Microsoft Technical Solutions Engineer - APS With the HP BladeSystem Matrix, you can radically change the way applications are deployed in your datacenter. Matrix provides an integrated platform of infrastructure (server, storage, and network) resource pools which can be dynamically allocated...
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By Karl Paetzel HP Enterprise Solution Alliances This week HP announced new investments to extend the value of BladeSystem Matrix through our ISV partnerships. Matrix is HP’s integrated offering of platform hardware, software, and services that delivers a shared-service IT infrastructure. It greatly...
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I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor the "best digital & IT products available...
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Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure
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Daniel Bowers
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10-21-2009
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Filed under: BladeSystem, awards, innovation, virtualization blade, Cisco, Datacenter futures, BL490c, Bytemark, Liquid Computing, Gartner, Latin America
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Here's a new BladeSystem best-practices whitepaper on the topic of firmware: HP BladeSystem ProLiant firmware management best practices It talks about different scenarios for firmware maintenance (like local vs. remote, online vs. offline), and goes over doing whole-enclosure as well as single-component...
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We get lots of questions regarding VMware and what HP servers are certified on the various VMware Operating Systems. They do have a Hardware Compatability List (HCL) and we just wanted to let you know which of the latest G6 BladeSystem Servers are on that list for VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0, the latest VMware...
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As iSCSI becomes more popular as an interconnect technology for storage and other devices, we had received a lot of questions as to how, why, what, works with iSCSI and the components of HP BladeSystem. So, Dan Bowers and Ed McGee put together a primer to help answer a majority of the questions and configurations...
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I came across an interesting white paper that identifies possible ways of managing HP servers with HP Systems Insight Manager and Insight Software deployed in the area of the network that is considered more secure than the standard production network. This is not a best practices document. This document...
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To fully use the features in the c3000 hardware, you must be able to add and configure software in EBS. This updated customer-viewable document covers installation of SNMP, Support Pack, Management Packs and how to add HP updates into Microsoft® System Center Essentials. See the white paper below...
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By Steve Cumings, director of marketing, Scalable Computing & Infrastructure, HP The latest TOP500 list of the world's largest supercomputers was announced this week at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 09) in Hamburg, Germany. HP leads the TOP500 the current June 2009 list with...
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HPTF showcased an overwhelming amount of demos, sessons, cool techies stuff everywhere you looked. Twitter crept into the scene this year with ten monitors showcasing all of the tweet buzz. ProLiant was certainly shouted about from every corner. One shout that caught my attention was the ProLiant Collection...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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Kristie Popp
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06-19-2009
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Filed under: x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, energy efficiency, HPTF, HP Tech Forum, SL6000, DL1000, Matrix
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How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power consumption and the reason why goes right down...
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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 that our technology partnership is strong, and...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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s_mathur
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06-03-2009
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Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
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Yesterday, AMD launched "Istanbul" , their six-core Opteron processor. Paul G. promised that HP would add this CPU into our servers in very short order. "Very short" was right; today we've announced the BL465c G6 and BL495c G6 server blades, both using Istanbul processors, plus...