OpenFlow is an emerging technology to help networking to be as agile as the rest of a virtualized environment. HP is one of a number of switch suppliers who are offering OpenFlow-based products. Forward and backward compatibility is one of HP's differentiators.
Desktop virtualization is making it possible for this healthcare organization to meet its goals for flexibility, cost management and regulatory compliance.
HP launches a long list of products and both professional and training services in the hopes of positioning itself as a go-to Cloud solution provider. Better design and more openness are HP's rallying points.
NOTE: The good folks at HP pointed out that I had used an old version of my document and some factual errors crept into my post. This is a revised version of the post with those errors removed (and quite possibly new ones inserted).
Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources.
The rumors about Cisco offering a blade server abound now. If true, it would seem that Cisco wants to move up the stack from providing networking and network virtualization technology to providing a more complete computing environment.
Over the past few days, HP has announced the acquisitions of Opsware for $1.6 Billion and Neoware for $214 Million.
After my interesting experience dealing with Dell's service, I had a refreshing experience with HP's service and thought I'd write something about it to dispel the image of industry curmudgeon that I've apparently earned in some quarters.It was Saturday morning and I was trying desperately trying to print a couple of images so I could take them to a meeting.
I'm on my way to Align 2007, the DataSynapse User Conference, that's being held in the Doral Resort in Miami, FL. I'm looking forward to hearing the interesting array of speakers they've got schedule including people from DataSynapse (no surprise there), HSBC, Credit Suisse, GigaSpaces, Wachovia CIB Technical Products Group, Oracle's Fusion Middleware Group, Hewlett-Packard, and GemStone.
After speaking with the folks at Fusion-IO back in June during their tour to announce a partnership with HP, I've been thinking about application performance issues and the various ways to address them.Typically application performance issues are found in this order:Network throughput and latency — typically the biggest impact on network-based applications is the network itself.