By Mark Lackey, Product Manager, Insight Control power management HP is introducing Data Center Power Control, the newest power management feature of Insight Control. I want to share a cool story about how this product was invented after a nearly catastrophic event at an HP site. We used our experience...
By Brandon Fears Product Manager, HP Data Center Environmental Edge Part of the focus of the HP Data Center Smart Grid is not only monitoring / managing power at the IT level, but also visualizing and optimizing the power and cooling infrastructure. This is where the newest version of the HP Data Center...
Are you going through mergers, acquisitions, continuous cost cutting pressures turning consolidation into a continuous program? Well.. have you seen worsening IT-business relation in the process? Little hostility from business may be because you took away their servers, retired application, decreased...
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Infrastructure Diaries
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on 11-05-2009
Filed under: services, HP converged infrastructure, shared-services, consulting, service management, datacenter, consolidation
By: Doug Oathout, VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator...
A quick video outlining Datacenter futures and architectures with Richard Fichera, Director of BladeSystem strategy http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HPatOracleOpenWorld#p/u/9/1wbM3RB4elI
Current economic, environmental and energy constraints often do not make it possible to add additional servers in the data center to align with the demands of the business. As a result, companies are looking to consolidate workloads on fewer servers to reclaim the underutilized capacity, lower the total...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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anand.akela@hp.com
on 08-30-2009
Filed under: datacenter, VMWare, virtualization, x86, AMD, performance, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, power savings, energy efficiency, VMworld, DL785 G6, DL785
Outside of my window, they're pouring the cement on the bays where future HP PODs will be tested. Here are some pics. A POD (Performance-Optimized Data center) is a 40-foot container filled with servers, storage, and other IT gear. HP can build & ship one of these in just 6 weeks. The large black...