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...
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...
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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I've read some feedback about this blog that it seems to focus on HP-UX 11i and high end servers. While HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, HP Integrity Non-Stop, and high end servers in general are definitely designed with mission critical workloads in mind, they aren't the only mission critical systems that...
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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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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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