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Tolly Group benchmark BladeSystem C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100

http://gestaltit.com/all/tech/networking/stephen/innocence-fairness-technology-benchmarks/

HP recently commissioned Tolly Group to benchmark their BladeSystem c7000 against the Cisco UCS 5100. The short report focuses on two results, and reads like so many competitive benchmarks in the IT industry:

Check out this analysis of the BladeSystem C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100. It’s a report comparing network  benchmarks on the two platforms. These kind of benchmarks can be useful, but as with anything the performance you achieve from your infrastructure is dependent on many aspects of the infrastructure, the network, the operating system configuration, layered components and hardware configuration, not to mention the configuration of your application, there is nothing to comparing the technology in your environment. Benchmarks, testing will always have relevance and always be useful, but as with anything is to be taken at face value and understood that how the infrastructure performs for you is going to depend on your IT, your infrastructure and your business. Little things like system firmware, operating system hot fixes, network configuration and the application or middleware being optimized for the platform all affect such tests, and ultimately any  decisions tend to be influenced more by purchasing agreements, discounts and that old thing of comfort zones, buying a platform that we are comfortable with. We’ll see, it’s worth a read, do check out the report and the analysis on the blog.

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2 Responses to “Tolly Group benchmark BladeSystem C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100”

  1. Jose R says:

    I think personally that the report is biased. (I mean, paid by HP to obtain what HP wants)

  2. Martin says:

    The idea of converging the infrastructure is a kind of zen like state for me, and I still love the concept. Whether it’s HP/Cisco or the others, that the innovation in the converged infrastructure continues is all that matters going forward.

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