If you are like me, you are constantly referring to manufacture web sites for product specs, available options, etc. Today, I’ve put together a list of web sites that will help streamline your search. Since links change and new ones get added, I’ve put out a “helpful links” tab at the top of my blog as well for you to reference and bookmark. As I get recommendations from my readers, I’ll update the “helpful links” tab, so be sure to add it to your favorites. Continue reading
Tag Archives: HP
Keep Up with HP Announcements at HP Discover
This week HP has its annual event, called HP Discover, in Las Vegas. Previously this event was focused on hardware only and was called HP Tech Forum, but this year HP combined hardware and software into one uber event, called HP Discover. If you are familiar with VMware’s VMworld – this event is very similar, only it focuses on HP products. This is a great marketing event for HP but more importantly, it gives HP customers, partners and press insight into what’s happening with HP.
This Day in History: "HP Claims Cisco UCS Will Be Dead in 1 Year"
“A year from now the difference will be (Cisco) UCS (Unified Compute System) is dead and we have had phenomenal market share growth in the networking space…And customers are thrilled and partners are making a lot of money.” – Randy Seidl, VP of the Americas, Enterprise Servers Storage and Networking, HP (April 26, 2010)
This was a quote found in CRN’s article a year ago, today, from Randy Seidl, HP’s senior vice president of the Americas, Enterprise Servers Storage and Networking, who was tasked in leading the charge against Cisco. Needless to say, it’s a year later, and Cisco UCS is still around but with much question around how much market share they own since they’ve yet to release market data to IDC or Gartner.
Intel Announces New Xeon 4 Socket CPU (E7); Dell, HP and IBM Slated to Refresh Blades
UPDATED 11:30 a.m. EST (4/6/11) – Intel announced today the next version of their 4 socket chipset, known as “E7”. Previously known with the codename of Westmere EX, the newly released Xeon 7600 will be rebranded as the Intel Xeon E7. Continue reading
HP Tech Day: Sustainable Data Center (#HPTechDay)
I’ve had the privilege of being invited to another HP Tech Day. This time, the event is being held at the HP Facility located in Fort Collins, Colorado. This campus is located approximately 1 hour outside of Denver and sits between Intel and AMD’s campuses (see map .)
The focus of this event is for HP to showcase their “Sustainable Data Center” concept. Over the next two days, me and a team of other bloggers (listed below) will be meeting with key HP personnel like the Vice President of Marketing, Converged Infrastructure, to fully understand HP’s concept. To give you some ideas of the messaging we’re likely to be exposed to, here’s a slide deck from two years ago: http://www.slideshare.net/hewlettpackard/sustainable-data-centers-hp-labs. Continue reading
A Look at the Dark Side of the Force
When I go to San Francisco, I head over to the west side of town to peer through the closed gates of the hidden campus of Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) dreaming of catching a glimpse of the magic. Recently Arik Hesseldahl, from All Things Digital, accomplished my dream and had a peek behind the curtains of what makes ILM run. Arik interviewed ILM’s CIO, Kevin Clark and then toured the ILM data center. Continue reading
Blade Server Market Share Comparison – Q3 2009 vs Q3 2010
I was updating a slide deck that I use to compare blade server technologies for customers when I came across the IDC and Gartner data from Q3 of 2009. I was very surprised at what I found out, so today’s post takes a look back at 2009 and compares it to 2010. Continue reading
What Cisco Has to Do to Win the Blade Server Market
Over the past several months, there has been a lot of discussions about how 2011 is the year Cisco will become a leader in the blade server space. There’s no doubt that there are a lot of customers who have moved to UCS, but in reality there are a few other things that Cisco will need to do to win the top spot. Today I’m going to discuss a few of these things. Continue reading
Gartner Releases Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers
Technology analyst, Gartner, released their Magic Quadrant focused specifically on blade servers this week and the results were not very surprising. Continue reading
Speculating Q4 2010 Blade Server Market Share Results
As I’m anxiously awaiting the Q4 2010 IDC blade server market share results from IDC (due out around the week of Feb 28, 2011), I figured I’d take a risk and see if I can trend what the results may be. Here’s what I found. Continue reading