Posts Tagged HP

Cisco’s Rip and Replace Dilemma

Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on July 8, 2010


Current network topologies are inadequate to meet the flexibility and scalability demands of burgeoning virtualized data center environments.  New switches and new network architectures are emerging that transform the data center to Infrastructure 2.0 (comment or edit a vendor-independent definition of Infrastructure 2.0 on the wiki).  Users should be aware that moving to this new environment is a disruptive, rip and replace initiative that requires substantial planning.  Despite this caveat, a modernization process provides the opportunity to streamline current siloed infrastructure spanning network and servers in a virtualized context.

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HP Ends the Protocol Wars

Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on June 24, 2010


What is the best protocol for virtualized environments?  For years we’ve been hearing arguments for NFS, iSCSI and FC (and more recently FCoE).  This week HP sent a strong message with their Virtual Connect Flex Fabric launch that the answer is YES! In the new BladeSystem G7, customers can Wire Once and support NFS, iSCSI, FCoE or FC.  This is an industry first for a switch module which can dynamically support FC and Ethernet.

There is a great write-up of the new BladeSystem G7 on Kevin Houston’s Blades Made Simple blog (the photo above is also from his site).

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Hanging in the Wikibon Tweet Suite at SNW Spring 2009

Posted by Dennis Martin in Wikibon on April 10, 2009


It was another successful and busy week at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2009 in Orlando. Although the number of vendors, by my count, was 48% of what it was in Spring 2008, it was apparent that the vendors who did participate sent fewer people. However, the SNW officials said that the end-user attendance was 92% of what it was in Spring 2008. Obviously travel budgets have been cut, and this was reflected in the end-user attendance, which had shifted to many local IT professionals from the central Florida region.

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One more thought on IBM Sun

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 19, 2009


After a not so great night’s sleep I awoke thinking about one more aspect of this possible deal that I haven’t seen discussed. Here’s a quick update to yesterday’s post on this topic.

In the 1980′s, my boss at IDC, turned author, David Moschella introduced what he called the “Theory of Dis-integration.” Today it looks trivial but making this call in 1987 was pretty forward thinking. What the Theory of Dis-integration said is that the next decade of IT competition would be shaped by a powerful trend, spawned by the economics of the microprocessor and IBM’s decision to outsource its PC chip and OS from Intel and Microsoft respectively. It called for the end of vertical integration in the IT business replaced by a segmented competitive structure.

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Today’s hot M&A rumor – IBM to aquire SUN for $6.5B!

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on March 18, 2009


According to the Wall Street Journal IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc for at least $6.5 billion. That price tag would translate into a premium of about 100 percent over Sun’s NASDAQ closing price Tuesday of $4.97.

WSJ displayed a masterful ability to hedge their bet by saying that a deal with IBM could happen as early as this week – or fall apart! They also noted that if IBM does buy Sun, it would be the company’s largest acquisition since it bought Canadian software maker Cognos for about $5 billion in January 2008.

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