Archive for November, 2009
Verari gets recognition for FOREST container
http://www.verari.com/news/archive/PR110309.asp San Diego, Calif. – November 3, 2009 – Verari Systems®, a premier developer of data center scale computing platforms with the highest density, availability, and energy efficiency in the market, today announced it was selected as the winner in the category of “Computers and Related Products” in the 16th Annual TechAmerica High Tech Awards [...]
University of Southampton uses iDataPlex
PublicTechnology.net The University of Southampton’s new supercomputer, live from January 2010, has been named UK academia’s ‘greenest’ computer in this year’s Green500 List, a ranking of the World’s most energy-efficient supercomputers. The Green500 List also ranks the supercomputer as the second most energy-efficient UK-based supercomputer overall – covering both academia and commercial markets. Custom-designed and [...]
What stops delivery we ask a Head of IT
I was interviewing a Senior IT Manager who has up until recently been completing a business transformation project, his role was to simply improve IT delivery, fix the budgets and get IT back on track, I asked him to summarize five key issues that prevented delivery: Olden days thinking – that’s not how we do [...]
How to determine age of proliant servers
Bladewatch.com I got an email asking how you could tell the age of your Compaq/HP servers in your estate. There are a number of ways to do this officially using the serial number, I have put together a quick reference spreadsheet which you can download, or check out this post.
Reviewing the HP Proliant DL180 G6
Check out this review of the HP Proliant DL180 G6, it looks like an interesting 2u offering, I’m off to check out more, I just posted the updated HP firmware spreadsheet and it’s on there. There remains room and demand for the 2u server whether it is the first server you buy, moving away from [...]
Updated HP firmware spreadsheet
I’ve published updated spreadsheet and pdf for the HP server and blade firmware. As part of this, I have added extra systems, of the top of my head: DL180/185 DL2x170h/DL4x170h DL560 ML530 BL60p BL2x220 G6 BL860c BL870c RIB/RILOE/ILO/ILO2 card P-class enclosure C-class enclosure Having the right system firmware is one of the first things a [...]
Customer service is key
Public Technology.net A survey of organisations across 16 countries puts the cost of poor customer service over $338.5bn per year. This survey is claimed to be the first large-scale attempt to place an economic value on the lost revenue from customer service across all channels when businesses do not measure up to consumer expectations. “With [...]
Singing from the same hymn sheet
A colleague called me up and told me how horrified he was that his enterprise was starting to “decommission G4 servers, G4s!”, if we step back a second, what he means is that the enterprise, through the CIO had ruled that anything in their data center that was older than a HP Proliant G4 was [...]
HP ILO2 firmware update to 1.80
HP.com HP have updated the fimware for the ILO2 integrated lights out to version 1.8. I’ve posted the release notes below, make sure you test it on your development/non client facing systems first. Also just in case the link above is to the online update for Windows 2003. Firmware Dependency: None Enhancements/New Features: – Enabled [...]
Tesco Mobile to sell the iPhone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/8378267.stm A spokesperson for the firm said that it hoped to offer the phone “in time for Christmas”. Although Tesco has not revealed tariffs, the spokesperson said that its prices were “competitive”. In September, it was revealed that O2 had lost its exclusive deal to sell the phone, which had been in place since its [...]
