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HP announced their latest revisions to their Proliant range, with some important improvements with a focus on scalability, energy efficiency and consolidation. There have been several improvements around the systems management (ILO3) and further enhancements to their energy efficiency including their Intelligent Power Discovery technology, which does look cool. Anything that can be done to make remote management of the server that little bit easier, the console performance and experience, or in the way the virtual media is managed has to be a good thing, I can’t wait to play with ILO3.

That HP continues the platform innovation with a focus on both the server and the related technologies to bring it all together is welcome, the more innovation and improvements we see both in terms of performance, energy efficiency and ease of deployment has to be a good thing for the end user community and the market place in terms of competition and possibilities.

The key points of interest for me were the DL580 G7, it looks like an ideal platform for virtualization or as a database/application server, as well as the return of the 8 socket Intel server, and the DL980 G7 an ideal powerhouse application or consolidation server (I’ve played with 8 socket x86 servers since the Compaq Proliant 8500R and was a bit of a fan of them then). It will be interesting to see the response to these new products, there’s more information here.

In the meantime, I’m working on updating the firmware spreadsheets for Dell, HP and IBM alike.

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