Hi. My name is Steve Woods and I work in HP Enterprise Services Application Modernization. I’ll be posting on topics that involve how we use some fairly innovative approaches to legacy transformation. In particular, I’ll discuss our Visual Intelligence Tools. Let me begin by covering the...
At the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, neuroscientists are interested in the tricks magicians use to fool us ( http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48544/title/Magic_for_neuroscientists ). It seems that magicians are keenly aware of issues we humans have. How we perceive is a very...
In his book, How to Measure Anything , Douglas W. Hubbard laments the reluctance of IT organizations to use inferential statistics for measurement. Hubbard poses the question of how to measure the number of fish in a lake. Many IT decision makers might respond just to drain the lake, kill the fish, then...
I can't believe that I have been blogging a year! I'm not a super-blogger by any means and certainly don't have the volume of posts that most bloggers do, but I'm pretty proud that I've stuck with it a year. It has been challenging, interesting, and a very positive experience overall...
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...
Posted to
Reality Check: Server Insights
by
s_mathur
on
06-03-2009
Filed under:
Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
In a previous blog, http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/ease-of-doing-business/archive/2008/11/20/disneyworld-does-it.aspx , I cite 5 rules for ease of doing business and improving customer experience. The 2 nd rule I cited was that you must “Evaluate your processes and procedures with #1(put...