Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Depending on whom you ask the IT market is up, down or holding steady. Cisco publicly warned of a slowdown and Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent reported earnings that clearly indicate the braking system is engaged but not screechingly so. Gartner says down, CDW says up Gartner keeps readjusting its 2012 IT spending forecast downward but according…
Many of the performance increases now available in the HP DL380p Gen8 come from Intel’s March release of the Xeon E5-2600 processors and the C6xx chip set family. IT managers have competitive choices, including the Dell R720 and the IBM System x3650 M4, both of which use the E5-2600 family processors. HP DL380p Gen8, a…
Although details may vary from platform to platform, SDN essentially involves abstracting the network control plane from underlying hardware — a truer form of network virtualization than many of the technologies that have adopted that term in the recent past. The practical benefits here are twofold: it makes the control plane remotely accessible, providing greater…
The more enterprises come to rely on cloud computing, the more they will see the dynamics of long-held systems and infrastructure development shift. The cloud provides virtually unlimited storage and processing capability, so it is expected that building and maintaining these resources will diminish, for the enterprise at least. Networking will be a challenge in…
HP reached a big milestone in its Converged Cloud initiative by kicking off a public beta for its HP Cloud Services suite. The IT giant is entering the public cloud services market with an infrastructure based on OpenStack, an open source cloud platform developed by NASA and Rackspace. In just under two short years, the…
In a big vote of confidence for OpenStack, HP today announced HP Converged Cloud, a suite of public and hybrid cloud services that incorporate the open source cloud platform. Amid growing industry support OpenStack, Citrix raised eyebrows recently when it announced that it was ditching its OpenStack-based Project Olympus project for its own open source…
HP is a massive company that has been around for a very long time. Over the years, it has acquired a vast number of companies including such IT players as Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp, EDS 3Com, Palm and 3PAR. Those acquisitions continue today at a rapid pace. In that light, it’s perhaps not surprising that…
Vendor lock-in possibly reached its zenith in the late 1990s and then began fade in part because giants like CA and IBM gained a reputation for charging hefty support fees that kept rising year over year for a customer base that, in many cases, had little option other than to keep paying. With mission-critical applications…
I hate rankings. Maybe that’s because I’ve always hated to be ranked (except of course when it’s really worked out in my favor!). But even then, I’ve had second thoughts. Not everything, after all, is a swim-meet. The vendors here certainly can’t be understood in swim-meet fashion. While the Business Service Management Service Impact (BSM…
CUPERTINO, Calif. — As the economy begins to ride out and recover from the recession, computer giant Hewlett-Packard sees that small businesses, particularly in the U.S., are ready to cautiously resume spending on IT. At a media event here, HP (NYSE: HPQ) officials briefly detailed a few new product offerings, but spent the bulk of…