By Erin Collopy This week, HP’s high-performance computing (HPC) team lands in Portland for the annual Supercomputing 09 conference (SCO9), where they’ll be meeting with loads of customers, partners, press and industry analysts to discuss the hot new technologies and trends in HPC. To coincide...
Joe Sullivan Microsoft Technical Solutions Engineer - APS With the HP BladeSystem Matrix, you can radically change the way applications are deployed in your datacenter. Matrix provides an integrated platform of infrastructure (server, storage, and network) resource pools which can be dynamically allocated...
By Karl Paetzel HP Enterprise Solution Alliances This week HP announced new investments to extend the value of BladeSystem Matrix through our ISV partnerships. Matrix is HP’s integrated offering of platform hardware, software, and services that delivers a shared-service IT infrastructure. It greatly...
I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor the "best digital & IT products available...
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Daniel Bowers
on 10-21-2009
Filed under: BladeSystem, awards, innovation, virtualization blade, Cisco, Datacenter futures, BL490c, Bytemark, Liquid Computing, Gartner, Latin America
Here's a new BladeSystem best-practices whitepaper on the topic of firmware: HP BladeSystem ProLiant firmware management best practices It talks about different scenarios for firmware maintenance (like local vs. remote, online vs. offline), and goes over doing whole-enclosure as well as single-component...
We get lots of questions regarding VMware and what HP servers are certified on the various VMware Operating Systems. They do have a Hardware Compatability List (HCL) and we just wanted to let you know which of the latest G6 BladeSystem Servers are on that list for VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0, the latest VMware...
As iSCSI becomes more popular as an interconnect technology for storage and other devices, we had received a lot of questions as to how, why, what, works with iSCSI and the components of HP BladeSystem. So, Dan Bowers and Ed McGee put together a primer to help answer a majority of the questions and configurations...