Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 1

HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was. Here’s a summary of the day’s activities: Overview of ISB (Infrastructure Software and Blades) from Gary Thome Partner Presentation from Mark Gonzalez Overview of Virtual Connect from Mike Kendall BladeSystem lab (hands...

March 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: New HP Arrays – Updated

Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years. P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart...

February 16th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Which Vendors Have the Right Vintage in 2010?

There’s no doubt that 2010 will prove to be another tough year in the storage industry. Customers are looking to continue on cost reduction and austerity programmes, squeezing assets as much as they can. Of all the storage vendors out there, which have got the the right vintage to succeed? ...

February 15th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees

My previous post regarding HDS and 3Par’s savings guarantees generated a few replies and rather than respond in comment, I’ve written an additional post in case I rant on too much. First thought: vendor guarantees need to be genuine; no hiding behind obtuse configurations that help to fluff...

February 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Announces Converged Infrastructure Architecture

Barely a day has gone by since EMC, VMware and Cisco announced their partnership, and now we have a view on HP’s strategy. Today, HP announce their private cloud offering – Converged Infrastructure Architecture (CIA), putting them squarely head-to-head with the VCE coalition. So what’s...

November 4th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

LeftHand – a case for a new application category

HP announced today their intention to acquire LeftHand networks, an iSCSI and virtualised SAN player. Now, I doubt HP needed to buy LeftHand for their iSCSI technology. I suspect the bigger play here is the virtualised SAN technology they have – also known as the Virtual SAN Appliance. This allows...

October 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

HP Power Calculators

A while back I mentioned a meeting I’d had with HP regarding Green IT (and in my case specifically storage). As part of the discussion, I asked Lucio Furlani (VP for Marketing in TSG) if we could have Power Calculations for HP storage. Well, true to their word, HP promised and have now delivered...

September 29th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Conserve IT Con

There’s been a lot of blogosphere talk recently about the Wikibon “Conserve_IT” initiative and how California’s Pacific Gas and Electric Company are taking the initiative and offering organisations rebates for demonstrable IT efficiencies. You can find comments here, here and...

August 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Why Tape Technology Just Doesn't Cut It

There have been a raft of tape announcements in the last week, most notably the two 1TB wannabee’s IBM and Sun. For around a mere $37,000, plus the cost of a cartridge, I can backup 1TB of my most precious data. HP have also announced plans to extend the life of the DAT/DDS tape drive. If you...

July 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Green IT with HP

Last Wednesday I passed a pleasant evening chatting with a number of people from HP on the subject of “Green IT”. I happen to think that “Green IT” is an oxymoron as IT is never going to deliver computing power using 100% recyclable energy and components. However, IT can certainly...

July 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

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