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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2010
As I mentioned previously, the next few weeks are going to be filled with new product / technology annoucements. Here’s a list of some dates that you may want to mark on your calendar (and make sure to come back here for details:) Feb 9 - Big Blue new product announcement (hint: in the BladeCenter family) [...]
Weta Digital, the digital production house that designed the hit movie AVATAR recently donated about 300 IBM HS20 blade servers to Whitireia Community Polytechnic in Porirua which will use them to help teach students how to create 3-D animations. The IBM HS20 blade servers were originally bought to produce special effects for The Lord of [...]
Posted in HP on Jan 12th, 2010
VMware ESXi v4.0 with VI4, 4CPU, Embedded, Trial, No Subsc, SD,NoMedia
Posted in HP on Jan 11th, 2010
As you can see from my blog title, I try to focus on “all things blade servers”, however I came across this bit of information that I thought would be fun to blog. An upfront warning – this is an HP biased blog post, so sorry for those of you who are Cisco, Dell or [...]
Posted in IBM on Jan 6th, 2010
I recently heard some rumours about IBM’s BladeCenter products that I thought I would share – but FIRST let me be clear: this is purely speculation, I have no definitive information from IBM so this may be false info, but my source is pretty credible, so… 4 Socket Nehalem EX Blade I posted a few weeks [...]
Posted in HP on Jan 4th, 2010
Since the hit movie AVATAR surpassed the $1 Billion Revenue mark this weekend I thought it would be interesting to post some information about how the movie was put together – especially since the hardware behind the magic was the HP BL2x220c. According to an article from information-management.com, AVATAR was put together at a visual [...]
IDC reported on Wednesday that blade server sales for Q3 2009 returned to quarterly revenue growth with factory revenues increasing 1.2% year over year. However there was a 14.0% year-over-year shipment decline. Overall blade servers accounted for $1.4 billion in Q3 2009 which represented 13.6% of the overall server revenue. Of the top 5 OEM blade manufacturers, IBM [...]
Posted in HP on Nov 16th, 2009
HP officially announced today an update to their BL2x220c blade server line. Although the primary purpose for this update was to introduce the Intel Xeon 5500 Series processor to the server line, there are additional significant enhancements as well (shown below in bold: Up to two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5500 sequence processors Up to 48 GB (6 x [...]
Posted in HP on Nov 4th, 2009
In the wake of the Cisco, EMC and VMware announcement, HP today is formally announcing the HP Converged Infrastructure. You can take a look at the full details of this design on HP’s Website, but I wanted to try and simplify: The HP Converged Infrastrcture is comprised of four core areas: HP Infrastructure Operating Environment HP [...]
Posted in HP on Oct 26th, 2009
HP announced a while ago a new product they call the HP BladeSystem Matrix. Okay, well, it’s not really a “product” as much as it is a solution. HP calls the BladeSystem Matrix “a cloud infrastructure in a box” – which is a good way to look at it. The infrastructure that is “the Matrix” is [...]
I've been working in server platform infrastructure since 1997. I'm certified in HP and IBM Blade Servers, working on Dell.You can contact me at:
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