1. HP Finally Boards the Mega Data Center Bandwagon

    GigaOM (Jun 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. HP Finally Boards the Mega Data Center Bandwagon Hewlett Packard today announced a new line of servers, a data center mapping program and some consulting and financing services aimed at companies that build out mega data centers. Potential purchasers of the new HP machines include those building cloud computing offerings and enterprise customers trying to build their own clouds or high-performance computing clusters. Problem is, HP is late to the mega data center party. SGI (formerly Rackable) has built special-purpose machines for years, and keeps introducing new options for the mega data center. IBM even launched its own, highly proprietary iDataPlex hardware for the same market last year. Two years ago Dell created a custom-order business aimed at serving this market while HP focused on better blades for enterprises and building custom setups for clients. HP is now combining some of the features its rivals’ cloud computing servers already offer, such as stripping out redundant power, sharing fans ... (Read Full Article)

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