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Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 4/4)
In this fourth and final part of our interview with Nick Van Der Zweep we got some numbers that Virtualization at HP has grown over 80% last year and the claim that HP is ‘growing with VMware faster than VMware is growing in any industry’. HP has about half of the Blade market and Nick adds that ‘the connect rate of virtualization to Blade Servers is much heavier than just Standalone Rack Servers. Blades are just an absolute natural fit for virtualization’. With iVirtualization HP offers a the virtual console which can handle several environments (e.g. VMware, Citrix.) each with their multiple virtual machines.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 3/4)
In this third part of our recent HP interview, Nick Van Der Zweep predicts Desktop Virtualization to be the next big tipping point in our industry. He adds this is one of the areas were HP is differentiating itself from IBM with a full desktop-to-data-center strategy.
“People like IBM are still struggling to catch up to that because they’ve got management systems for every platform that they have and trying to pull that together. That’s critically important to be able to see holistic view of the entire data center…”
But also when it comes to flexible and usage-based data center pricing models and cloud computing, Nick claims HP is a pioneer with clients such as Dreamworks, rendering their movies on HP’s excess infrastructure.
The Opsware acquisition is referred to often in this interview when it comes to HP offering the full broad enterprise management software and configuration management
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedVideo interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 2/4)
In this second part of our video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Director for Virtualization at HP, we get further introduced to how HP defines virtualization and how it differentiates itself from its competitors. Nick also shares what typical Virtualization problems his clients are grappling with and what skill set is needed in IT departments to overcome the pitfalls.
14Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedVideo interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 1/4)
In this first part of our lengthy video interview (4 parts) with Nick Van Der Zweep, Director for Virtualization at HP, we get introduced to how HP defines virtualization as flowing computing resources around and how this drops your costs and increases agility from desktop virtualization to data center virtualization and storage.
2Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedHP & Virtualization: New Thin Client Hardware, Extended Software Offerings, Deeper Partnerships With Citrix and VMware
HP today introduced new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances that strengthen the industry’s broadest portfolio of virtual business technology solutions.
19May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP’s Ann Livermore On Virtualization
In an interesting interview with ZDNet UK, HP’s Ann Livermore, who heads the company’s Technology Solutions Group, talks about the difference between HP and IBM and touches upon virtualization.
1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP Wants To Power ‘Next Generation’ Data Center Transformation
HP today announced ‘a set of products and services designed to help customers transform their data centers from a standalone collection of physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure designed to rapidly meet changing business needs’, which it dubs the next generation data center (NGDC).
17Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
