All Posts Tagged With: "HP"
HP Takes Next Step To Support Future Growth
HP today outlined the results of its three-year IT transformation and laid out the company’s IT strategy to support future growth for fiscal year 2009 and beyond.
2Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Deepens Partnership With HP
Microsoft today announced expanded product, sales and services initiatives with HP aimed at helping businesses more easily adopt and deploy virtualization. Microsoft has expanded its work together with HP to sell and market storage, server and networking consolidation solutions and desktop virtualization solutions to small-, medium-sized- and large-business customers worldwide.
17Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP ProLiant Virtualization Blade Server To Be Equipped With Samsung Solid State Drives
Samsung Electronics has announced that its 32 gigabyte (GB) and 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs) have been selected, after extensive testing, for use in the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server. This represents the first time that an SSD has been qualified for use in a server optimized for virtualization.
10Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Adds More Virtualization Capabilities to Power Systems, Eyeing Sun and HP
IBM, which combined its System i and System p server product lines earlier this year, is revamping its Power Systems to offer more systems for enterprise and midmarket customers.
8Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedCA Wants A Piece Of The Virtualization Pie, Upgrades Data Center Automation Manager
CA today announced a group of products aimed squarely at the new-world data center and its growing ranks of virtual machines. With today’s announcement, CA debuts Data Center Automation Manager 11.2, plus nine tools aimed at infrastructure, application performance and service management, as well as information governance.
7Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedHP Buys LeftHand Networks For $360 Million In Cash
HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions who recently came out with some impressive numbers.
1Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedComposite Information Server Now Interoperates with HP Neoview Data Warehouse
Composite Software today announced its Composite Information Server has been certified for interoperability with the HP Neoview enterprise data warehouse platform. Composite Software is also part of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP), a worldwide alliance program providing fast, easy access to resources that can help partners to develop, market, deliver and support quality solutions using HP products and services.
30Sep2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedvMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0
In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.
16Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo 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 | Continued
