Blade Watch

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/070227a.html

HP Reduces Customer Administrative Costs and Wait Time with Blade Network Virtualization Technologies

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 27, 2007 On the heels of taking the No. 1 position in factory revenues and units shipped for blade servers,(1) HP today introduced virtualization technologies that simplify the connectivity and management of its HP BladeSystem c-Class architecture, the company’s core solution for the next-generation data center. HP also announced the launch of its first workstation blade for the c-Class blade portfolio, the HP ProLiant xw460c Blade Workstation, to provide users with increased performance and scalability.

Dramatically simplifying network connectivity and common server management tasks across the data center, the HP Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel virtualization modules enable administrators for the first time to wire just once and then add, replace or recover servers on the fly. In addition to lowering capital and operating costs, the modules deliver simplified management capabilities that reduce the time it takes to execute these actions from hours or days to a matter of minutes.

The XW460c blade workstation does look fantastic, the HP trader workstation range, the XW6000-9400 have been infamous in the banking sector as industrial strength, I’m sure HP will offer the same with their blade workstations, the technology has been tested now, one of the banks is already using them.

Virtual connect looks very interesting and it’s worth checking out their web seminar or reading the text for the press release, though http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/459411-0-0-0-121.html does explain it very well, it aims to use the technologies available to reduce the lead time in deploying infrastructure which does look very good and I am very impressed. Will need to read the whitepapers to find out more.

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