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Well, I'm catching up on my e-mail after spending a few days on the road. It seems that the last few days have been quite busy around here! I know that some readers of this blog run or work with OpenVMS, and I'm reminded that we often don't promote it enough. So, when there is an announcement...
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Based on all the news around Oracle and Sun, I know that there are a lot of Sun customers considering their options, especially if they are looking to replace older systems as the economy stabilizes and they are looking towards some growth next year. HP, and most of our competitors, offer a whole host...
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Well, I'm at 36,000 feet and coming up on Fort McMurray (yes, I've been to Fort Mac) on a flight back from London on Remembrance Day [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_day]. As a Canadian, now living in the US (San Jose), I miss the minute or two of silence at the 11th hour of the 11th...
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It is announcement day here at HP [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/091104xa.html], so there are a large number of new and updated products, services, and visions to take a look at. Many people in the Business Critical Systems group, and actually across Enterprise Servers and Networking,...
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11-04-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, HP-UX 11i, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, VSE, OpenVMS, Serviceguard, Windows, ID-VSE, Insight Dynamics - VSE
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In the UNIX world, performance is often one of the big decision factors, especially for scale up workloads. Over the years, I've taken part in a lot of performance discussions, both with customers and with the engineers that design systems and write software. While reliability, availability, serviceability...
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Hey, I know you… when was the last time you heard that, and didn't remember the person who was saying it? It happened twice in a couple of minutes this morning as I was meeting a customer that I was briefing. Forsythe Technologies,[ http://www.forsythe.com/na/ ] a channel partner, had brought...
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Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management features on the system. The power management...
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10-21-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active
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With all of the activities that have been going on during the last few weeks, I forgot to mention a major release. Let me rectify that ommision today. HP has released the latest update to HP-UX - HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-v3-update5-overview.html], also...
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We finished a fabulous Superdome Tech Day yesterday with a number of bloggers. I need to go and see what they have written, but I know that at least one site actually covered the event live. There were also a lot of tweets using the tag #HPSuperdome. There were a couple of questions, thoughts, and interesting...
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10-06-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, OpenVMS, Integrity NonStop, mainframe, IDC, NonStop
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After taking a few days off and heading home to Canada for a wedding this past weekend, I'm back in Calfornia and back in the office. Today is a busy day. We're hosting a number of blogs and technical publications for a Superdome 10th Anniversary kick off. Superdome came out in the fall of 2000...
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Did you know that there is an Energy Star certification for servers? More information is at http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=ent_servers.enterprise_servers . Did you know that HP had the first Energy Star certified servers (several HP ProLiant servers)? I attended a stakeholders meeting with the...
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09-29-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, green, cooling, power, servers, EPA, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, energy star, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX