3PAR Inc, known to most for its canary yellow storage systems on a black background, has been sailing with a stock on the stock market for at least ten years that has remained stable at $10, but never rose above $15. Now, after the first acquisition proposal by Dell and the very recent proposal by […]
When we attended a conference in Rome (Data Center Evolution), Cisco described its vision for the Unified Computing System (UCS), focusing on the FCoE (Fiber Channel Over Ethernet) protocol and how Cisco supported this rather than the more performing Infiniband. We asked the speaker Roberto Missana (Channel Product Sales Specialist of Cisco and Vice Chairman […]
Participation in the 2-day training course preparatory to the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification for the new vSphere 4 platform, held at HP’s Rome headquarters by lecturer Mario Russo. Course Outline Module 1: Introducing the Next Generation of VI Highlights Next Generation enhancements by component and reviews upgrade tools and strategies. Module 2: Infrastructure Administration […]
The DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) announced yesterday, April 27, the formation of a working group dedicated to the development of a set of specifications for the management of resources in the Cloud. The group, Open Cloud Standards Incubator, will focus mainly on interoperability between private and public clouds, perhaps developing management protocols, package formats […]
The proliferation of datacenters, the number of under-used servers, the delays and complexity in designing and implementing a reliable and scalable multi-tier infrastructure, the need of companies to no longer want to worry about the infrastructure, to no longer want to keep “in-house” system engineers and architects useful only at certain times, are finally developing […]
Hewlett-Packard acquired LeftHand Networks on October 1 to open its market to the new logic of storage virtualization, storage clustering, or rather commodity-based storage clusters. LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in iSCSI SAN technology, offers scalable storage software for the standard hardware industry. With the LeftHand, HP’s portfolio of virtualization solutions for small and medium-sized businesses […]
Taking advantage of the opportunities born from VMworld 2008 in Cannes while we visited the HP booth and talked about storage and blade systems with the very kind Kyle Fitze – Director, Product Marketing Storage Area Networks StorageWorks Division Barry Sinclair – Hp BladeSystem Platform Marketing Infrastructure Product Manager we have climbed all the commercial […]
We came across this Grid Computing in continuous research between CERN and HP. There was the possibility to register and use the computational power on consumption. A complex platform all java and Xen based. The experiments of use did not last long but they were useful to make us reflect a lot on the importance […]