Here’s a story about unexpected behavior prompted by some chargeback rules at Pfizer . (By 'chargeback' I mean the budgeting scheme where IT resources are metered, then costs are attributed to the business units that consume them.) Larry Cannell notes that when department budgets were squeezed...
I'm sitting here thinking about writing my first Blog post and trying to come up with something to say. So I figured I'd start by trying to answer one of my least favourite questions (and before you all start to correct my spelling I'm not originally from the USA) and explain why it's...
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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Gary Thome
on 04-22-2009
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
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
on 03-16-2009
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...
The latest Top 500 supercomputer list just got released. BladeSystem c-Class was well represented once again. With 201 entries (40.2%) of the top 500, it has the most entries of any product line. The ever popular ProLiant BL460c made up the most entries, but we also had strong showings of the BL465c...
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Gary Thome
on 12-01-2008
Filed under: BladeSystem, 2-in-1, blade infrastructure, dell, blade servers, market share, Blade news, awards, top500, top 500, supercomputer, super computer
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
on 11-17-2008
Filed under: BladeSystem, blade infrastructure, virtual connect, blade servers, virtualization, virtual servers, Blade news, blade innovation, virtualization blade, virtual machines, why blades, virtual I/O, virtual networks, Flex-10