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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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...
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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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