Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure

Reduce application deployment times with HP BladeSystem Matrix ISV Solutions

Kristie Popp — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Extending BladeSystem Matrix through ISV partnerships

Kristie Popp — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity

C Purcell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:55:00 GMT

Written by Doug Oathout , VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator makes sure the data is...(read more)

Swifter, higher, stronger… It’s not just the Olympics’ motto anymore

Kristie Popp — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:48:00 GMT

By Nick van der Zweep Director of Product Management, HP Insight Software I hope you’ve heard some of the recent noise we’ve made around key enhancements to our Converged Infrastructure story. If not, I urge you to check out the news . We’re...(read more)

Three Opinions (But One Counts More)

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 Blogger Meetup

C Purcell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:18:00 GMT

Everything you ever wanted to know about a blogger meet up. This one was hosted by Oracle and HP during Oracle Open World. Turn out was pretty good with a lot of good opportunities to meet people face-to-face and exchange ideas http://www.youtube.com...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 Italian Ministry of Education and Research ROI

C Purcell — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:00 GMT

HP's Luc Vogeleer CTO Application Modernization of Enterprise Business presenting a case study the Italian Ministry of Education and Research - 18 months return on investment Oracle Open World Italian Ministry of Education http://www.youtube.com/user...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 Check out the HP booth at Oracle Open World in 9 slides!

C Purcell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25:00 GMT

This give you a quick 9 slide snap shot of the HP booth at Oracle Open 2009 http://www.slideshare.net/HPintheEnterprise/hp-booth-in-slides-at-oracle-open-world...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 Converging Datacenter Management Summary

C Purcell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:04:00 GMT

A quick video outlining trend and emerging futures with Richard Fichera, Director of BladeSystem strategy http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HPatOracleOpenWorld#p/u/8/tWtL5BUIZsE...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 – Check out the HP Booth #1301

C Purcell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:59:00 GMT

If you did not get an opportunity to visit Oracle Open World 2009, check out the interviews below that provide quick summaries of activities within the HP booth Guided tour at the HP booth 1301 part 1 with Steve http://www.youtube.com/user/HPatOracleOpenWorld#p...(read more)

Oracle Open World 2009 Datacenter Center Power and Cooling Summary

C Purcell — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

DCE = Deprecated

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:15:00 GMT

If I'm interpreting the comments from Bob Nusbaum correctly, then Cisco has decided to stop using the term "DCE" (Data Center Ethernet), and will use the terms "CEE" or "DCB" going forward. That's a good move. As...(read more)

What does it take to deliver mission-critical solutions?

Kirksblog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:01:00 GMT

As we have been discussing, requirements for mission-critical capabilities can be found everywhere. So, just how does one go about building an offering that can meet mission-critical status? Let's look at an example I think most of us can understand...(read more)

BladeSystem Firmware Management

Daniel Bowers — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:39:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Harnessing Horsepower: Cores, Capacity, and Code

Daniel Bowers — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:33:00 GMT

Last week at IDF , two Intel technologists spoke about different fixes to the problem of compute capacity outpacing the typical server's ability to handle it. For the past 5 years, x86 CPU makers have boosted performance by adding more cores within...(read more)