Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management features on the system. The power management...
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
on 10-21-2009
Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active
I've read some feedback about this blog that it seems to focus on HP-UX 11i and high end servers. While HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, HP Integrity Non-Stop, and high end servers in general are definitely designed with mission critical workloads in mind, they aren't the only mission critical systems that...
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on 10-16-2009
Filed under: Integrity, servers, mission critical servers, OS, BCS, HP Superdome, VSE, HP ProLiant, Windows 2008, DL 785, Windows, SQL server
With all of the activities that have been going on during the last few weeks, I forgot to mention a major release. Let me rectify that ommision today. HP has released the latest update to HP-UX - HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-v3-update5-overview.html], also...
Did you know that there is an Energy Star certification for servers? More information is at http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=ent_servers.enterprise_servers . Did you know that HP had the first Energy Star certified servers (several HP ProLiant servers)? I attended a stakeholders meeting with the...
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
on 09-29-2009
Filed under: Integrity, green, cooling, power, servers, EPA, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, energy star, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX
While Kurt is off visiting customers and Lorraine is reflecting on the nature of mission-critical computing, I am also joining the blogging team. Let me introduce myself. My name is Jacob Van Ewyk, and I work in Business Critical Systems Marketing. I'm currently focused on Power, Cooling, and Cloud...
I read a clip from IDC guy Dan Harrington explaining why he thought the economic downturn crimped x86 server deployments more than Unix server deployments. "It's easier to freeze purchases on x86 [servers], which are a commodity at this point," he said. Easier to delay x86 deployment? Sounds...
By Steve Gillaspy, Group Manager, HP BladeSystem Product Team Today, HP announced that Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) upgraded their entire IT infrastructure to HP ProLiant servers. To date, CTCA has deployed more than 500 HP ProLiant rack and blade servers as part of a major infrastructure...