HPTF showcased an overwhelming amount of demos, sessons, cool techies stuff everywhere you looked. Twitter crept into the scene this year with ten monitors showcasing all of the tweet buzz. ProLiant was certainly shouted about from every corner. One shout that caught my attention was the ProLiant Collection...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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Kristie Popp
on 06-19-2009
Filed under: x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, energy efficiency, HPTF, HP Tech Forum, SL6000, DL1000, Matrix
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...
Some of our Blade Specialists give us the workings of the BladeSystem "Power switch" . David gives us these words of wisdom. "I've always referred to the "power switch" on the front of the blade not as a power switch but a " may I?" switch. When actuated, the blade...
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...
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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Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure
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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...
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...