By Mark Lackey, Product Manager, Insight Control power management HP is introducing Data Center Power Control, the newest power management feature of Insight Control. I want to share a cool story about how this product was invented after a nearly catastrophic event at an HP site. We used our experience...
By Brandon Fears Product Manager, HP Data Center Environmental Edge Part of the focus of the HP Data Center Smart Grid is not only monitoring / managing power at the IT level, but also visualizing and optimizing the power and cooling infrastructure. This is where the newest version of the HP Data Center...
I attended a thought leadership session at Vmworld today, “ Conquering Costs and Complexity in a Virtualized Environment ”. In 1996, there were roughly 6 million servers. In 2009, that number has increased to nearly 32 million servers. In the presentation link below, HP & IDC outline...
Tuesday brought the opening sessions for VMware & HP, first out of the gates in the morning at VMworld. The buzz at the Moscone Center was strong all day, the HP booth humming high. Here are the HP announcement highlights from the morning Super Sessions: Insight Control suite for VMware vCenter:...
Need to estimate power consumption and proper selection of components? Check out the HP Power Advisor . Other features are also provided including a condensed bill of materials, a cost of owner ship calculator, and a power report. Reduce power consumption with ProLiant right-size power supplies. In HP’s...
written by HP's Peter Johnson New economic pressures and big changes, like new entries and consolidations in the computer industry, have been coming at warp speed, forcing a lot of customers to rethink their investment priorities. Adding to the impact of those market shifts is the very real uncertainty...
By John Gromala, director, product marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP Today, HP introduced our first addition to the HP ProLiant line since the 2001 introduction of blade servers with the new extreme scale ProLiant SL-family. This addition marks a very important inflection point in the industry...
With all the doom and gloom in the news these days, it was a bright spot in my week to have a meeting with a customer that is planning to build a new data center next year. Even more surprising is that the company is in the financial services industry. And no, they are not receiving any government money...
By Ankit Gupta. KVM switches play an important part in designing the data center solution where you can have multiple server access at a given point of time . Many new technologies have evolved in the past 5 years and we have always believed that KVM is not a competitive, but a complementary solution...
By Ankit Gupta. Using multiple computers in a restricted area can be tricky as they often need their own peripheral devices directly attached, such as a keyboard, monitor, and mouse - even though these devices may be used rarely. Buying multiple devices can get expensive, the running costs can be high...