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...
Virtualization has become a mainstay, even a business imperative, within most data centers today. Today, every server manufacturer is claiming leadership in virtualization platforms, so the real question you need to ask is, "Why HP?" Well, let me give you a few of the key reasons why HP is...
By the second full day of VMworld, I noticed two discernable themes (I'm sure most of you who are at VMworld probably noticed them days ago!). VMware is really playing up the customer focus. The first thing you notice about the "décor" of VMworld is that there are all of these cartoons...
As I attend this year’s VMworld, it’s amazing to think how much has changed since the first VMworld only four years ago. At that time, only a relatively small group of loyal techies even knew what virtualization was. The techies are still here supporting VMware and virtualization, but now many more people...
Technology Business Research (TBR) recently released its 2Q-2008 x86 Server Customer Satisfaction Study results, and the news is EXCELLENT for HP this quarter. HP ProLiant achieved the #1 ranking in both the Weighted Satisfaction Index (WSI) and the Overall Satisfaction Rating. The WSI ranking is a weighted...
By Doug Strain What makes a leader in virtualization? Is it performance? Is it experience and marketshare? Is it being named as #1 in manageability for the leading virtualization platform? Or, in the new math that really measures the strength of a virtualization leader, maybe it is much more than the...