Archive for September, 2010
HP continues to innovate their Converged Infrastructure offering
HP.com HP expands upon the industry’s first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure with enhancements to the Serviceguard Solutions portfolio for Integrity and HP-UX operating environment. Enhanced HP Serviceguard Solutions 11.20 availability software, combined with the recent release of HP-UX 11i v3 Update 7, enables clients to: — Reduce manual configuration efforts by approximately 93 percent(1) with the [...]
Top 20 VMware performance metrics whitepaper
Check out this whitepaper, it’s an interesting read talking about the top 20 VMware performance metrics you should know about. Anything vendors can do to aid users with their platforms, whether it’s in terms of best practice or understanding features has to be a good thing. Do check it out.
Dell continues the platform innovation
MarketWatch ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sep 16, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Dell announced today new PowerEdge(TM) servers, PowerVault(TM) storage, and PowerConnect(TM) networking solutions that help growing businesses update their technology infrastructures with easy integration, minimal downtime, and the ability to scale — all while driving business performance under constrained budgets. “Because of their limitation in IT [...]
Blades and energy efficiency
MarketWatch ROUND ROCK, Texas, Sep 16, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –Over the course of five years, Dell blades can help customers reduce energy costs by up to $60,000 when compared with similar solutions(2) –Energy savings can reduce environmental impacts for customers and the planet –This is consistent with Dell’s ongoing strategy to eliminate data center [...]
Aiming too high and never really achieving anything
I was having a chat with Angus we’ll call him asking him how he was dealing with a new role working for a medium business; it has four sites across the UK in the financial sector with external clients, a set of complex infrastructure and a server estate in a rapidly changing state. The conversation [...]
Talking about TheBDEvent
http://www.thebdevent.com/paloalto.shtml PALO ALTO, CA – September 20, 2010, TheBDEvent, a networking event created to help technology executives develop the “business behind their business,” today announced details for its upcoming January 2011 conference, to be held January 25th – 27th at the Sheraton Palo Alto (CA). Registration is now open and is limited to qualified senior [...]
HP announces Integrated cloud for Oracle applications
HP.com Clients can deploy applications in hours SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2010 – HP today announced integrated private cloud solutions customized for Oracle applications that significantly shorten and simplify the deployment process. HP Private Cloud Solutions for Oracle Applications are specifically engineered to support complex, multi-tiered environments, so clients can deploy Oracle applications in hours. [...]
Proliant DL380 server upgrade drivers and firmware plan
I got an email from a local small business manager asking about how to do a driver and firmware upgrade, the email text is below, I thought I’d post it, the process is the same for the other Proliant servers, as always do ensure you read the release notes for firmware and drivers, also consider [...]
Proliant Support Pack on server with remote console tools
I had an issue at a client site where they had run the Proliant Support Pack (the driver pack) on their Compaq Proliant DL380 and when the server came back online, it was stuck in vga mode, 16 colours and would not allow the user to change the resolution. We did some more investigation and [...]
Name your top five issues for today Mr Head of IT and Mr SMB
I had been speaking with a local SMB and a head of IT for a bank asking them about their servers, their current top five issues and it was interesting to hear that although they operated in different spaces, different markets and budgets, their needs were beginning to align from an end user standpoint, I’ve [...]
