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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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
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...
Every time a competitor introduces a new product, we can't help but notice they suddenly get very interested in what HP is blogging during the weeks prior to their announcement. Then when the competitor announces, the story is very self-congratulatory "we've figured out what the problem...
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Gary Thome
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03-16-2009
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Filed under: BladeSystem, energy efficiency, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, dell, blade servers, virtualization, market share, virtual servers, blade everything, blade standards, awards, blade innovation, virtualization blade, why blades, power management, Dynamic Power Capping, virtual I/O, Flex-10, Fibre Channel, adaptive infrastructure, insight software, IT convergence, Cisco, x86 server market, virtual infrastructure, engineers, data center 3.0
We can’t let Illuminata, Gartner, IDC and Forrester have all the fun, so we sat down and came up with our own "What’s Hot and What’s Not in the Data Center" list for 2009. NOTE: This blog post will self-destruct on December 31, 2009 should anyone feel the need to analyze our prognosticating...
Moore's law has usually been used to predict general trends in semiconductors. While not exactly a perfect analogy, we have seen trends in interconnect bandwidth increase. Ethernet has seen bandwidth increase ten-fold every few years, with the latest transition to 10Gb. Usually these transitions...
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Gary Thome
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11-17-2008
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Following on the heels of our virtualization launch last week, Dell made a virtualization announcement of their own yesterday. They announced a variety of third party products they now support and re-announced the blades servers they introduced last week, but this time referring to their virtualization...
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Gary Thome
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09-11-2008
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Filed under: BladeSystem, blade infrastructure, dell, blade servers, simplicity, virtualization, competitive, blade everything, Blade news, innovation, virtualization blade, why blades