HP on Monday took direct aim at the ever-increasing costs of data centers and
managing an explosion of data by announcing a new generation of automated and
efficient hardware. The new generation of ProLiant servers includes better
internal management, powerful automation features, and improved energy
conservation.
The ProLiant Gen8 servers are part HP's Converged Infrastructure strategy,
and represent the first step in the company's Project Voyager, a two-year,
$300-million effort to redefine the economics of the data center. At the
heart of the new generation of servers is ProActive Insight architecture,
which includes integrated lifecycle automation, dynamic workload
acceleration, automated energy optimization, and proactive service and
support. [Disclosure: HP is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]
Data has become a differentiator in business, and with an ever-... (more)
There's a lot to like about MySQL databases if you're a start-up, until
success comes knocking a bit too fast.
When big data demand soars then MySQL can sour on making the transactions
needed on time. Sharding the application and data resources has been about
the only answer, other than to painfully and expensively cut and run to
another data base like NoSQL.
This was the problem facing Massive Media when its social networking site
Twoo rapidly grew to four million users in six months. By using the Clustrix
distributed relational database system, Massive Media gained high scale-out... (more)
The latest BriefingsDirect discussion targets the need to make sense of the
deluge and complexity of the data and information that is swirling in and
around modern enterprises. Most large organizations today are able to
identify, classify, and exploit only a small portion of the total data and
information within their systems and processes.
Perhaps half of those enterprises actually have a strategy for improving on
this dismal fact. But business leaders are now recognizing that managing and
exploiting information is a core business competency that will increasingly
determine thei... (more)
This guest post comes courtesy of Leonard Fehskens, Vice President of Skills
and Capabilities at The Open Group.
The enterprise transformation theme of The Open Group’s San Francisco
conference reminded me of the common assertion that architecture is about
change, and the implication that enterprise architecture is thus about
enterprise transformation.
We have to be careful that we don’t make change an end in itself. We have
to remember that change is a means to the end of getting something we want
that is different from what we have. In the enterprise context, that
something ha... (more)
In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the
neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud.
Last week, HP delivered HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA)
Content Pack 10, bringing with the ability to better manage cloud instances
across the enterprise-public cloud continuum, including deep discovery of
virtualized workloads' performance inside of Amazon and VMware vCloud clouds.
Then this week, HP on Tuesday further thrust its global market-leading
LoadRunner performance testing suite -- via partners -- into development
clouds, known a... (more)