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...
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
on 06-03-2009
Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
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
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
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...
These days, server power efficiency is top of mind for everyone. Five years ago, most customers had no idea how much power a server used. Now, everyone knows - it's a lot. In some cases, customers are making power consumption the primary criteria for vendor selection. So why is it so dang hard to...