1. HP High Efficiency Cloud Infrastructure Servers, Moving Away from Blades, Learning from Data Center Operation

    greenm3.com (Jun 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. HP High Efficiency Cloud Infrastructure Servers, Moving Away from Blades, Learning from Data Center Operation Notice how IBM, Dell, Rackable, and Dell’s high efficiency cloud infrastructure servers are not blade enclosures? Maybe it’s because HP’s data center design group who creates solutions like this are figuring out how inefficient blades are for Cloud Computing. Quoting HP’s press release. With the HP ProLiant SL portfolio, customers can cut acquisition costs by 10 percent and power draw by 28 percent, while doubling their compute density.(2) “Customers with scale-out business models need solutions that make every dollar, watt and square foot in the data center count,” said Christine Reischl, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “The HP ProLiant SL offers pioneering customers like these the most significant design innovation since the blade form factor, allowing them to achieve an economy of scale never before possible.” And, HP includes an IDC quote. “Businesses built on extreme scale-out environments, such as ... (Read Full Article)

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