Infosmack Podcast Episode 40 - HP Blades Day Wrap Up. Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with guests Rich Brambley (@rbrambly) of VM/ETC, Simon Seagrave (@kiwi_si) of TechHead, Stephen Foskett (@sfoskett) of Gestalt IT, Chris M. Evans (@chrismevans) of The Storage Architect and Devang Panchigar (@storagenerve) of Storage Nerve. This week's podcast is a special wrap up from the HP Blades Day in Houston, Texas.
Disclosure: The participants on this podcast were provided travel and accommodations by HP
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written by Sim, March 01, 2010
Regarding the comments about HP not integrating storage into HP Insight Manager, well they do but you have to buy HP Storage Essentials http://h18006.www1.hp.com/prod...index.html and the appropriate plugins for HP Insight Manager http://h18000.www1.hp.com/prod...pps.html#c for it all to work.
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written by Visiotech, March 03, 2010
The concept of POD is heavily used by Google. Nothing new here. They basically invented it. That is what their grid computer is build around. Sun Microsystems took the idea about 2 years ago and offered the same concept called Black Box. NOT new and unique to HP folks! Microsoft also liked the idea.
Why this is concept is important. IBM, Dell, HP, Sun failed to deliver large server farms at many startup such as Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. These startup use of the off the self desktop motherboard and turn them to servers like into grids or now called cloud. None of these 5 years old startup are build around major server vendors. Thousand servers per startup. Huge lost for them!
Look at what Google server and POD look like here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
These vendors saw it is now possible to have resilient cheap servers organized into grid and still offering up time at 70% cheaper they could offer themselves. No high-end servers and storage here. All build around cheap products surrounded by fault tolerant software infrastructure (AKA cloud). So these vendors started to build these offering (POD) where the now control hardware and software stack (appliance like). Now instead of loosing to Asian base motherboard manufactures and open source based software they now own the entire stack. Once clients are using them they tend to stick with one vendors and not switch because of ease of management and physical concept (POD).
Even if it is a limited success they will stop the trend with their major clients who start to look closer at what the startup are doing so successfully and try to repeat it internally.
So these startup where playing into major vendors field (hardware and software) such as Amazon, Google and other grid/cloud services. Cisco might also been impact by these design where cheap switches are used and now joined the server vendor area to control the losses.
Why this is concept is important. IBM, Dell, HP, Sun failed to deliver large server farms at many startup such as Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. These startup use of the off the self desktop motherboard and turn them to servers like into grids or now called cloud. None of these 5 years old startup are build around major server vendors. Thousand servers per startup. Huge lost for them!
Look at what Google server and POD look like here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
These vendors saw it is now possible to have resilient cheap servers organized into grid and still offering up time at 70% cheaper they could offer themselves. No high-end servers and storage here. All build around cheap products surrounded by fault tolerant software infrastructure (AKA cloud). So these vendors started to build these offering (POD) where the now control hardware and software stack (appliance like). Now instead of loosing to Asian base motherboard manufactures and open source based software they now own the entire stack. Once clients are using them they tend to stick with one vendors and not switch because of ease of management and physical concept (POD).
Even if it is a limited success they will stop the trend with their major clients who start to look closer at what the startup are doing so successfully and try to repeat it internally.
So these startup where playing into major vendors field (hardware and software) such as Amazon, Google and other grid/cloud services. Cisco might also been impact by these design where cheap switches are used and now joined the server vendor area to control the losses.
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written by Visiotech, March 03, 2010
Here is a 7min video about what POD can do at Google.
http://www.google.com/corporat...mit.html
http://www.google.com/corporat...mit.html
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