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Why you should care about Total Cost of Ownership

kristenreyes — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:42:05 GMT

Guest blog written by Leigh Carpenter, WW HP Servers ROI/TCO Manager

Mention Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) or Return on Investment (ROI) and most IT people cringe. Having been a technical person my entire career, I can relate, but as we all know nothing is more constant than change. So here I find myself leading the charge for HP Servers on the TCO and ROI front and I'm happy to share that HP has developed a new tool that can help you determine your potential savings.

10X Increase in Data Traffic Is Easily Handled With an Integrity Server Upgrade

tammie.aron — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:45:04 GMT

Many companies have multiple operating groups, and usually that means they also have multiple infrastructures. If you're wrestling with multiple infrastructures to keep your business units running, take a look at a system upgrade to the latest HP Integrity servers. Upgrading solved a lot of issues for Hotelplan. So why not find out what it can do for you?

HP ProLiant servers: Java rock star performances in both metrics on SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM benchmark

SBuchberger — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:03:53 GMT

Another set of Java performance records and industry-first achievements have been delivered by the HP 1P, 2P, 4P, and 8P ProLiant Servers on the new SPECjbb2013 benchmark.

There’s Really No Upside to Experiencing a Systems Power Loss (Regardless of Duration)

priyapatel — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:31:07 GMT

This past February, more than 108 million viewers worldwide witnessed one of the more embarrassing moments in Super Bowl history: an outage that cut off power to half the stadium in the third quarter, causing a 34-minute game delay. While the official causes were reported to be attributed to a design flaw and human error, the downtime impact was sizable and costly. This illustrates that downtime is an ongoing and unavoidable challenge for businesses of every size when unprepared. It’s not a question of asking whether downtime will happen, but when and where.

Great informative feedback direct from the HP Discover Customer Sessions

Kleinch — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:02:51 GMT

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama experiences HP’s long-term investment protection

Visit the NonStop team at HP Discover for business solutions to mission-critical IT problems

Wendy_NonStop — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:32:05 GMT

Customers use HP NonStop servers in solutions for a wide variety of mission-critical applications that require continuous-availability solutions. If you come to HP Discover in Las Vegas, you can learn more about many of those solutions and why NonStop servers are the best choice for industries that never stop.

Free your desktop apps & build a client virtualization & mobility strategy - in just one day

karen.brown — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:11:44 GMT

By virtualizing desktop and application workloads in the datacenter they become device agnostic and available anywhere, any time without the need for complex and costly reengineering of the applications estate. Deploying client virtualization as part of a holistic mobility strategy allows an organization to bridge the gap between classic desktop services and the ultra-mobile devices that are dominating the hearts and minds of users.

Discover the timeless beauty of HP Integrity and HP-UX

josefine — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:53:31 GMT

The world has really changed since the first release of HP-UX in 1983. At that time the HP 9000 Series 520 running HP-UX was leading edge technology; it was capable of processing complex systems of equations and 3D modeling - tasks advanced graphing calculators can perform today. But let’s keep in mind, this was breakthrough technology at that time and it kick-started an evolution in hardware and software that is still running the world today. The rich and proven history of HP-UX is backed with breakthrough innovation in availability, virtualization, management, security and more. HP Serviceguard in 1990 and HP vPars in 2000 – two products many could not imagine operating without.

HP ProLiant DL385p Gen8 Server - The Performance Leader

SBuchberger — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:31:36 GMT

Outstanding performance results brought the DL385p Gen8 to the #1 2P AMD Opteron™ performance leadership by delivering the first VMmark 2.5 benchmark performance result ever.

Building a better Enterprise–together.

Kleinch — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:55:32 GMT

HP at Interop Las Vegas May 6-10, 2013

Nebula Finds a Better Price Performance Ratio to Support Parallel Workloads: HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

rosie.chiovari — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:48:57 GMT

Nebula recently certified the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 servers to provide the high-performance computing environment needed to run genome and genetic sequencing at biotech companies.

TTX Reduces Data Center Space and Lowers Costs with HP ProLiant Server Blades

Kleinch — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:54:35 GMT

TTX, with over 200,000 railroad cars to keep track of, runs everything on the HP Converged Infrastructure to keep rail customers on time and to ensure their revenue tracks.

Exploring the new era of compute at HP Discover 2013

josefine — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:24:28 GMT

Amazing things happen every day all around the world because of servers and their power to compute. You can connect with colleagues across the globe and instantly share documents, presentations and live demos. Researchers use computers to make breakthroughs in medical research to save thousands and thousands of lives. But what’s the best part about compute today? Join us at HP Discover Las Vegas and find out for yourself!

Top 10 mission-critical sessions at HP Discover you can’t afford to miss

tammie.aron — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:14:21 GMT

The countdown to HP Discover Las Vegas is underway. With only 7 weeks remaining, now is the time to plan how to best maximize your time at this event.

Maximize Your IT Budgets and Finance Your Server Upgrade with HP

tammie.aron — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:28:06 GMT

Guest blog from Alan Bowen

When considering a mission-critical server upgrade to handle changes in your business, reduce cost of ownership and improve efficiency--keep in mind one of the more critical considerations will be how to finance the purchase of the new Integrity systems. To help with this financial concern, Alan Bowen, HP Global Marketing and Business Development Leader for HP Financial Services, was interviewed and he shares insights on how HP Financial Services can help free up capital, retire legacy systems, and maximize your budget.

Consolidate on Integrity blades and reduce maintenance costs by 54%

tammie.aron — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:17:08 GMT

If your company needs to grow, but you’re running out of space—and time—to support a sprawling data center, it’s probably time to consolidate.

NonStop Performance Essentials – Delivering the Features you Asked For!

vigupta — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:18:53 GMT

Whether it is cloud infrastructure or traditional IT, it is important to know how the systems are performing. NonStop customers have a choice of management applications that can monitor performance of the various components in a system. These applications have different levels of functionality and varying price points. For day-to-day performance monitoring and alerting, especially in an environment where HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is used as a single pane of glass for infrastructure management, HP NonStop Performance Essentials makes an ideal choice for the performance monitoring. In this blog, I discuss some very cool enhancements made in HP NonStop Performance Essentials in its last release in January, 2013.

Imagine the impact…TI’s KeyStone SoC + HP Moonshot

kristenreyes — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:49:12 GMT

Guest blog written by Sanjay Bhal, WW product line manager, HPC & Cloud, Texas Instruments Incorporated

On April 8, 2013, market leader Hewlett Packard announced a huge change in the server landscape with its recent Moonshot announcement. HP responded to the new challenges being driven by the diverse requirements of mobility, cloud, social and Big Data by enabling application-optimized servers rather than the traditional, one-size-fits-all servers. TI is very excited to be part of such a monumental industry shift as we strongly believe that a better way to cloud is driven by such purpose-driven server architectures.

10% improvement in scaling with VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 and HP ProLiant DL380p

karen.brown — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:56:06 GMT

Learn how we increased the number of users for pooled desktops from 150 to 165 using Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 and Microsoft Windows 2012.

HP Moonshot: A milestone in Hyperscale

kristenreyes — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:38:24 GMT

Guest blog written by Christian Reis, VP, Hyperscale Systems, Canonical

Learn how Canonical, a founding member of HP’s Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem, delivers scale out innovation in partnership with HP and the Moonshot system with the only OS integrated and fully operational across the complete Moonshot System, covering x86 and ARM chip technologies.