Eye on Blades Blog: Trends in Infrastructure articles

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

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.

Building a better Enterprise–together.

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

HP at Interop Las Vegas May 6-10, 2013

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.

Vianet Upgrades IT Infrastructure to Handle Growth in Customer Demands: HP Converged Infrastructure

Kleinch — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:25:59 GMT

By having a plan to handle growth, Vianet halves storage costs and slashes power consumption with a flexible, resilient Converged Infrastructure from HP.

Godrej Consumer Products keeps pace with a flexible server infrastructure for virtualization

rosie.chiovari — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:18:00 GMT

HP BladeSystem is the core of a virtualized environment providing the speed, scalability and high availability Godrej Consumer Products needs for an increasing number of new projects.

Groundbreaking animation & visual effects compliments of the HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server blades

kristenreyes — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:04:05 GMT

Guest blog written by Rosemarie Chiovari, HP ISS Integrated Market Sales Enablement

Animal Logic is one of the world’s leading design, visual effects, and animation companies. HP server bladesprovide the power, efficiency and density Animal Logic needs for their artists to continue to work while rendering applications are running in the background.

Nth Generation guarantee customer environments run with maximum efficiency to increase ROI

kristenreyes — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:59:32 GMT

Guest blog written by Mary Jane Vazquez, Product Marketing Manager

For over 22 years, Nth Generation has provided enterprise IT solutions and value-added strategic consulting services for clients looking to increase efficiency, business productivity, and return on IT investment.

Global Partner Conference (GPC) announcements provide “unmitigated good news” for HP customers.

Kleinch — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:06:46 GMT

Good read in Richard Fichera, Forrester Research, Inc. principal analyst and blade server expert, blog on the annoucements from the GPC

Kingston University eliminates PCs & provides value added services in a virtual environment

Kleinch — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:47:12 GMT

Client Virtualization continues its momentum in the marketplace.

Virtual Connect 4.00 brings advanced data center intelligence to HP BladeSystem networks.

Kleinch — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:56:50 GMT

New enhanced features for the best way to connect blade servers to I/O.

The Mellanox SX1018HP is a game changer for squeezing every drop of latency out of your network

Kleinch — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:27:49 GMT

Guest blog by Steve Barry, Product Line Manager for HP Ethernet Blade Switches

One of the barriers to adoption of blade server technology has been the reliance on a limited number of network switches available. Organizations requiring unique switching capabilities or extra bandwidth have had to rely on Top of Rack switches built by networking companies that have little or no presence in the server market. The result was a potential customer base of users who wanted to realize the benefits of blade server technology but were forced to remain with rack servers and switches due to a lack of alternative networking products. Here’s where Hewlett Packard has once again shown why they remain the leader in blade server technology by announcing a new blade switch that leaves the others in the dust.

Mellanox SX1018HP Ethernet Blade Switch

Working closely with our partner Mellanox, HP has just announced a new blade switch for the c-Class enclosure that is designed specifically for customers that demand performance and raw bandwidth. The Mellanox SX1018HP is built on the latest SwitchX ASIC technology and for the first time gives servers a direct path to 40Gb. In fact this switch can provide up to sixteen 40Gb server downlinks and up to eighteen 40Gb network uplinks for an amazing 1.3Tb/s of throughput. Now even the most demanding virtualized server applications can get the bandwidth they need. Financial service customers and especially those involved in High Frequency Trading look to squeeze every drop of latency out of their network. Again, the Mellanox SX1018HP excels, dropping port to port latency to an industry leading 230nS at 40Gb. There is no other blade switch currently available that can make that claim.

For customers currently running Infiniband networks, the appeal of being able to collapse their data requirements onto a single network has always been tempered by the lack of support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on Ethernet networks. Again, HP and Mellanox lead the way in blade switches. The SX1018HP supports RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) allowing those RDMA tuned applications to work across both Infiniband and Ethernet networks. When coupled with the recently announced HP544M 40Gb Ethernet/FDR Infiniband adapter, customers can now support RDMA end to end on either network and begin the migration to a single Ethernet infrastructure. Finally, many customers already familiar with Mellanox IB switches provision and manage their network with Unified Fabric Manager (UFM). The SX1018HP can be managed and provisioned with this same tool, providing a seamless transition to the Ethernet word. Of course standard CLI and secure web browser management is also available.

Incorporating this switch along with the latest generation of HP blade servers and network adapters now gives any customer the same speed, performance and scalability that was previously limited to rack deployments using a hodgepodge of suppliers. Data center operations that cater to High Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC), Telecom, Cloud Hosting Services and Financial Services will find the HP blade server/Mellanox SX1018HP blade switch a compelling and unbeatable solution.

Click here for more information on the new Mellanox SX1018HP Ethernet Blade Switch.

Affordable virtualized graphics for media-rich PC to high performance 3D workers—yes affordable!

karen.brown — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:56:49 GMT

The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 Server and Graphics Expansion Blade raise the bar again with industry-first support for bladed, high performance graphics with up to eight GPUs per blade – reducing the cost per user by up to 60%! This Gen8 blade solution is ideal for either media-rich users or virtualized, multi-tenancy users who utilize high-performance
graphics applications.

Moving the world’s most advanced blade infrastructure to the next level: HP BladeSystem

Kleinch — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:31:45 GMT

Attaining next generation technologies in a future-proof design

Don’t pass up on the opportunity to hear the latest on HP BladeSystem at HP Discover

Kleinch — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:55:40 GMT

HP BladeSystem is the foundation of HP Converged Infrastructure. Get insights on the direction HP is planning for this data center innovation to enable 2013 and beyond data center planning for your buisness.

UL improves flexibility & increases performance with HP ProLiant Gen8 server technology

Kleinch — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:10:53 GMT

Certifying a new generation of technology

Wasserstrom gets relief from the headaches of poor performance with HP Converged Infrastructure

Kleinch — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:13:04 GMT

Warrerstrom gets what it needs now and for the future.

Next best thing to hands-on demo: HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 Server Blade.

Kleinch — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:58:34 GMT

Get your blade tour from Darren Anthony.

Want More Graphics Horsepower but Need Security Too?

karen.brown — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:30:00 GMT

HP pairs high-end performance workstations with Citrix HDX 3D Pro at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona.

#1 in virtualization performance benchmark: HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 Server Blade

kristenreyes — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:16:39 GMT

Servers best able to meet the many demands virtualization entails require a balanced architecture to ensure there are no internal bottlenecks that can undermine VM performance and communications among processors, memory and storage. One such server is the HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 Server Blade. It is ideal for virtualized environments and has the accolades to prove it with the #1 worldwide result on the VMmark virtualization benchmark.