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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...
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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...
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Are you going through mergers, acquisitions, continuous cost cutting pressures turning consolidation into a continuous program? Well.. have you seen worsening IT-business relation in the process? Little hostility from business may be because you took away their servers, retired application, decreased...
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By: Doug Oathout, VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator...
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A quick video outlining Datacenter futures and architectures with Richard Fichera, Director of BladeSystem strategy http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HPatOracleOpenWorld#p/u/9/1wbM3RB4elI
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Current economic, environmental and energy constraints often do not make it possible to add additional servers in the data center to align with the demands of the business. As a result, companies are looking to consolidate workloads on fewer servers to reclaim the underutilized capacity, lower the total...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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anand.akela@hp.com
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08-30-2009
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Filed under: datacenter, VMWare, virtualization, x86, AMD, performance, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, power savings, energy efficiency, VMworld, DL785 G6, DL785
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Outside of my window, they're pouring the cement on the bays where future HP PODs will be tested. Here are some pics. A POD (Performance-Optimized Data center) is a 40-foot container filled with servers, storage, and other IT gear. HP can build & ship one of these in just 6 weeks. The large black...
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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...
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The HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter) is stealing the show at the HP Tech Forum 2009. The POD is set up and you can tour the POD, talk to the experts and also see the power house running the POD. Kevin Egan & Steve Cumings from HP are informative, graciously answering all questions and helping...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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Kristie Popp
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06-17-2009
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Filed under: cooling, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, evergy efficiency, performance, iLO, server, power savings, energy efficiency, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo, HP Tech Forum
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Traveling to the show? Share with us your experiences. Can't travel? Stay tuned to this web site for the latest info. At Tech Forum (June 16 - 18 in Las Vegas) HP will showcase its premier enterprise computing solutions. The event will feature daily keynote speakers, presentations and booth demos...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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Kristie Popp
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06-14-2009
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Filed under: HPC, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, G6, racks, shared storage, scale-out servers, 2009, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo
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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...
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How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power consumption and the reason why goes right down...
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In blackjack, if you have a great hand versus the house, you can double your bet or “double down” to show the confidence that you have in winning it all. HP’s commitment to our new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is a clear signal that our technology partnership is strong, and...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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s_mathur
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06-03-2009
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Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
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Following on from my first post I'll take a look at the affect hardware configuration will have on the power consumption of the enclosure. To do this I went into the Blade Power Sizer and configured up two equivalent systems. I kept the enclosure configuration constant with just 2 x Virtual Connect...
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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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Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure
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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