VMworld 2009: VMware! Shutting HP out, is it worth the risk?
By Tarry Singh at 27 June, 2009, 5:07 am
Update 2 28th June 2009: After the whole twitter world getting a bit fired up by this post I just want to say one thing of all the possible [and unrealistic, according to some, circumstances] that the following are the observations I can make now:
1. Cisco doing what it should be doing: Cisco is and [...]
HP’s storage blades for the future!
By Tarry Singh at 25 June, 2009, 12:31 pm
Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find common ground by bunging storage/virtualization/networks together. HP, with it’s ever increasingly popular PODs, will have [...]
Read More >>HP+Alcatel 10 Yr Deal: Should Cisco worry or hurry?
By Tarry Singh at 18 June, 2009, 1:55 pm
One analyst said the alliance was a smart move by HP, which is finding itself in a heated competition with Cisco in the data center, and also needs to catch up to Cisco and IBM in the area of cloud computing.
Cisco, long known for its networking capabilities, made a significant step into the data center [...]
Extreme Scale Cloud Servers from HP: Meet DL1000 high density boxes!
By Tarry Singh at 10 June, 2009, 10:45 am
The new ProLiant SL series of cookie sheet machines follows fast on the heels of the uber-dense ProLiant DL rack-based servers that were announced last week. The DL1000 rack server allows one, two, or four two-socket servers using quad-core “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 processors to be put into a 2U form factor - the kind [...]
Read More >>Cool HBA challenger Brocade HBAs are certified by HP!
By Tarry Singh at 3 June, 2009, 2:59 am
Madhu Matta, VP of Brocade’s Server Division, said: “Our HBAs allow customers to consolidate more servers and virtualise server-to-storage environments, while simplifying overall management across the SAN in a cost-effective manner.”
This claim is based on Brocade’s assertion that its HBAs extend ProLiant I/O performance “to an industry-best” 500,000 IOPS per port, and that “Brocade HBAs [...]
EMC loses key 22-year veteran Donatelli to HP, now files lawsuit against him!
By Tarry Singh at 30 April, 2009, 11:05 am
In 2001, EMC won a non-compete law suit in Massachusetts against Doron Kempel who was leaving EMC to become CEO of SANgate Systems. He had to wait almost a year before taking up his appointment. Kempel later became chairman and CEO of a deduplication vendor, Diligent, which was acquired by IBM, where he now works.
Donatelli [...]
Citrix XenServer comes of age: Tesco virtualizes 1500 servers with Citrix XenServer and HP’s blades!!!
By Tarry Singh at 12 March, 2009, 12:58 pm
This is massive news, much bigger than the Cisco’s blade server launch, much bigger than the VMware virtualization. I am totally blown away with the figures here. Awesome!
CHALFONT, UK – March 12, 2009 – Tesco (LSE: TSCO), Britain’s leading supermarket chain, has announced pioneering updates to its mission-critical Real Time Sales [...]
Global Economy: HP to cut employees’ salary to ride out the recession
By Tarry Singh at 19 February, 2009, 12:20 pm
“In an environment like this, there’s no margin for error and no tolerance for inaction,” Hurd wrote yesterday in a memo to employees that was obtained by Bloomberg News. “My goal is to keep the muscle of this organization intact, but we do have to do something because the numbers just don’t add up.”
Hewlett-Packard’s pay [...]
HP unsure about the “Cloud Computing” mumbo-jumbo
By Tarry Singh at 11 February, 2009, 11:16 am
One day after IBM established its cloud computing development and marketing strategy by instituting a new division, installing leadership in it, and spotlighting a key networking partnership, longtime nemesis Hewlett-Packard made darn sure on Feb. 10 that it got some face time to explain its stance on this important new market.
HP told a group of [...]
Avaya joins HP ProCurve Unified Communications drive as well!
By Tarry Singh at 27 January, 2009, 4:21 am
HP is certainly taking all timely measures to give Cisco the resistance it might have anticipated when it called for a major Data Center push by getting into the Server market. So HP replies by taking on the Network. Honestly convergence and battles round convergence were bound to happen, I for now don’t have time [...]
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