Category: HP

HP might still go for true Converged Infrastructure?

HP has been marketing Converged Infrastructure for at least 3 to 4 years now. But for most of us it still is not even close […]

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Baby 3PAR has super powers

I know, the title is a bit of a teaser but it makes sense. I am at HP Discover Las Vegas this week and HP […]

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HP Proliant Gen8 – Tech Q&A

Yesterday HP announced the new ProLiant Gen8. Formerly they had G3, G4, G5, G6 and G7 but this time it has been called the Gen8. Apparently it has something […]

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Please welcome baby 3PAR!

Rebranding the ‘future’ story: I’ve said it a few times in the last 2 years (actually since the acquisition of 3PAR) that HP should have […]

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HP Virtual Connect and Flat SAN [Infosmack podcast]

Infosmack has always been one of the most respected podcasts within Enterprise IT. Therefore it was an honor for me when Nigel Poulton asked me to co-host an […]

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HP and DELL teaming to beat the entire storage market

According to a recent Gartner Report on the storage market (march 9th), EMC stays the biggest and grows faster then others. Then new big blue had […]

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HP ProLiant Gen8 | technical deepdive

Last month HP launched new generation ProLiant servers as Gen8. The day after we allready had a in depth Q&A about the new technologies with […]

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HP P4900 SSD Lefthand – Bloggers podcast

A few weeks ago HP launched their new kid on the ‘block’, the P4900. It is an SSD-only box in the P4000 (Lefthand) family. There are two models: […]

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HP path(ways) to the Cloud

Last December at HP Discover we had some insights in the Cloudsystem Matrix HP had build. We saw that they not only took care of provisioning storage […]

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when Lightning strikes … the fire (fud) arises

Last week, EMC officially announced VFCache, fka Project Lightning. To be short EMC puts an PCIe Flash Card in the server that handles read cache […]

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HP EVA Capacity and Performance Calculator – V2

It has been a month or two since my first version of the EVA calculator. The greatest benefit is that I don’t get a lot […]

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HP Cumulonimbus – Verticaly developed Cloud

I was looking for an image to accompany my Cloud blog and came across the “Cumulonimbus”. Together with the following text I couldn’t resist using […]

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