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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 Jim Jackson, About Converged Infrastructure About This Poster Hi, I’m Jim Jackson. I’ve recently joined the HP Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem team as the Vice-President of Marketing and want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and briefly explain how our new strategy...
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Last week at IDF , two Intel technologists spoke about different fixes to the problem of compute capacity outpacing the typical server's ability to handle it. For the past 5 years, x86 CPU makers have boosted performance by adding more cores within the processor. That's enabled servers with ever...
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In April, SPEC updated their server power benchmark to allow results for blade servers, and now HP has released its first blade result. HP just published a SPECpower_ssj2008 result for the HP BL280c G6 server blade . It's the top score for a blade. I talked to Kari Kelley, the BL280c product manager...
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Recently, we shipped a BladeSystem c3000 (or 'Shorty' to those in the know), to Dave Mitchell at the IT Pro for a hands-on review. Inside we added the latest virtualization blades, virtual storage with HP LeftHand and some other new gadgets to show off a snazzy virtual infrastructure that's...
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Recently I demonstrated a prototype blade to an IT admin from a large bank. He'd worked with lots of different HP server models over the years, but a bright red color peeking out from the server blade chassis caught his eye. I popped off the cover and showed him the motherboard. It was coated with...
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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...
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This week we released VMMark results for the new HP BL490c G6 server blade. The scores establish the BL490c as the highest performing 2-socket server blade for virtualization -- eclipsing blades offered by IBM, Dell, and Cisco. By the way, this 2-socket result ( 24.24 at 17 tiles ) follows just on the...
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Here’s a story about unexpected behavior prompted by some chargeback rules at Pfizer . (By 'chargeback' I mean the budgeting scheme where IT resources are metered, then costs are attributed to the business units that consume them.) Larry Cannell notes that when department budgets were squeezed...
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One of our specialists passed this cool picture along of a massive row of blades. I'd tell you what customer it was from but they would hang me. green PS: you know you're a nerd when you think lots of blinking green lights are cool. (guilty)
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One of the BEST videos I've seen in awhile about a very unsexy story - servers. Steve Brown at Intel did this and it's great. Even your mom will understand servers after seeing this. Have a great weekend!
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We've been on the Adaptive Infrastructure journey at HP for several years now. This week we are announcing an important milestone: BladeSystem Matrix. We've been really thinking a lot about how customers use IT and ways we can optimize IT infrastructure to make it work better for them. We recognize...
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Gary Thome
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04-22-2009
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Filed under: BladeSystem, capacity planning, cloud computing, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, blade servers, virtualization, datacenter, blade innovation, insight software, IT convergence, consolidation, virtual infrastructure, data center 3.0, convergence, next generation data center, Insight Control
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A couple of weeks ago, lots of server admins started deploying the new HP BL460c G6 server blade. Coincidentally, this year is the 20th anniversary of the Compaq SystemPro 386/33 -- the first "PC server" (to use the 1989 throw-back term for "x86 server"). There's a rad (another...
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Our engineering team has put together a good white paper on how different memory technologies work in computer systems today. Advantages, disadvantages, architecture models in server design when selecting the best price and performance in memory configurations for your servers. http://h20000.www2.hp...
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I'm a sucker for unscripted honesty. Kudos to Mr. K for taking a deep breath after Cisco's UCS and Project California grandstanding to put some reality in front of the rhetoric. In less than 3 minutes, he really boiled all the hype down and simply articulated what a lot of our customers and partners...