2012年3月26日星期一

HP's server strategy focuses on SSDs, storage bottleneck

Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it strength of character concentrate on the I/O bottleneck formed by interior and outer storage space in the sphere of its subsequently generation of ProLiant servers, boosting performance by up to 50% on behalf of standard applications such the same as online transaction handing out (OLTP) and streaming videocassette.

HP understood in the sphere of two separate blog posts with the aim of its approaching ProLiant Gen8 member of staff serving at table line strength of character offer solid-state drives (SSDs) in the sphere of combination with a data caching algorithm with the aim of it calls Dynamic Workload increase of velocity.

The HP ProLiant servers include a 6Gbps embedded SAS controller with the aim of moves from using 15,000rpm SAS difficult drives to SAS-based SSDs. The inexperienced controller offers six era the performance of before generation controllers. DRAM store amount is besides being doubled on the servers.

"Yes, Gen8 strength of character stay a screamer and workloads strength of character run by remarkable levels," understood Steve Schultz, who leads HP's Smart storage space Firmware Engineering team. "But further than performance, storage space amount is an extra tenderness promontory."

ProLiant Gen8 strength of character besides support up to 50% other difficult drives in excess of the before generation line, on behalf of up to 36TB of amount in the sphere of a single 2U (3.5-in high) DL380.

HPs strategy revolves around its Gen8 Smart Array RAID controller, which uses SSDs and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload increase of velocity on behalf of ProLiant Gen8. The algorithm strength of character migrate the most recent data to the highest-performance storage space.

HP claims with the aim of its Gen8 Smart Array RAID controller with SSDs is 60 era earlier than the before generation controller with difficult CD-ROM drives. And, with PCIe Gen 3 support, bandwidth has been increased by other than 85%, the company understood.

With its SSD option and Dynamic Workload increase of velocity caching software, HP is making a recreation adjacent to other vendors who've besides upped the ante with NAND twinkle and data caching, such the same as Oracle/Sun, Fusion-io and EMC, understood Valdis Filks, Gartners seek director on behalf of in a row equipment infrastructures.

"Storage really is lone of the biggest bottlenecks. The member of staff serving at table has increased in the sphere of break the speed limit 10 era and CD-ROM storage space has probably not doubled in the sphere of the remaining five years the same as far the same as response era," Filks understood. "I continuously say, this SSD marketplace is a battle of the caching algorithms. It's going on for who has the preeminent caching algorithms on behalf of pre-fetching data and being able to understand the data."

Fusion-io has been promotion PCIe twinkle cards on behalf of servers on behalf of going on for four years. In the sphere of February, EMC announced its VFCache produce line, an initiative to put on the market PCIe-based NAND twinkle cards on behalf of servers the same as a caching element to growth I/O performance by up to 4,000 era. The company besides began promotion storage space arrays crammed with 10 or else 15 of the twinkle cards and connected by InfiniBand networks on behalf of high-performance treatment workloads.

EMC's essential member of staff serving at table customer strength of character stay Cisco, which is planning to application the PCIe cards in the sphere of its Unified Computing regularity Servers (UCS).

But SSDs in the sphere of servers solitary solve part of the snag, according to Filks.

"At the instant if you stick this SSD tag in the sphere of the member of staff serving at table, it really doesn't know what did you say? The storage space array is liability. We believe surrounded by the subsequently three years, they'll try to encompass software someplace the tag communicates with EMC storage space arrays, and as with the aim of happens EMC strength of character encompass a lovely lock-in," Filks understood, adding together with the aim of HP strength of character likely move out down the same path.

But, EMC, HP and Fusion-io don't encompass a prop up on Oracle/Sun, which has been promotion its Exadata storage space member of staff serving at table Software on behalf of databases on behalf of years and which communicates by the treatment level, Filks understood. For the reason that it is tightly integrated with the prophesy folder, the software can pre-fetch data queries, giving it an benefit in the sphere of provisions better millisecond response era in excess of storage space systems, he understood.

"Anyone by the storage space layer is future to the merrymaking after everyone else," Filks understood. "Storage is so sluggish, with the aim of it's firm populate strength of character perceive an benefit by using SSDs, but [EMC, HP and others are] really fair tiresome to catch up."

HP launched its current Gen7 ProLiant member of staff serving at table line in the sphere of swagger 2010. Remaining month, HP released more or less details going on for the next-gen ProLiant member of staff serving at table line, which is based on Intel's approaching Xeon E5 processors.

In the sphere of addition to at the bottom of SSDs in the sphere of its ProLiant member of staff serving at table line, HP understood it is offering something called SmartMemory and "flexible" 10GbE networking ports.

HP understood with the aim of with SSDs, Dynamic Workload Accelteration, SmartMemory and 10GbE connectivity performance of more or less applications strength of character growth by up to 50%, plus transactional throughput on behalf of OLTP and videocassette streaming. It besides understood the servers strength of character application 88% a smaller amount energy and 75% a smaller amount floor liberty, and enable the consumption of 30% other virtual tackle (VMs) with a reduction of 40% in the sphere of energy-per-VM.

"We designed our reminiscence to process endeavor treatment workloads by increasing the bandwidth by 25% while offering 50% better capacities and 35% reminiscence uptime advance using our well along reminiscence miscalculation Detection equipment," HP understood in the sphere of a blog. "Key goal on behalf of our reminiscence design was to realize power efficiency the same as we increased performance. All this translates to other virtual tackle, folder increase of velocity and efficient balanced regularity resource allocation to process slightly workload."

2012年3月4日星期日

Samsung Galaxy S3 to arrive in April?

The Samsung Galaxy S3 might appear at the same time as first at the same time as after that month according to Samsung insiders cited by ZDNet Korea with a main marketing campaign aimed on the London 2012 Olympic games.

The Korean electronics giant's new to the job superphone is the sequel to the come to individual robot smartphone, the Galaxy S2, which sold 20 million taking part in the outer space of in the past few minutes nine months. The updated robot 4.0 S3 is predictable to article a 1.5GHz quad-core CPU and perhaps a Galaxy Nexus-sized 4.8-inch screen.

The smartphone loving UK was cited at the same time as an influential launch territory and the London Olympic Games taking part in grand was cited at the same time as an key part of the marketing tactics in support of the new to the job phone.

Curiously the S3 is and believed to happen 4G LTE compatible, despite the lack of a 4G set of contacts taking part in the UK. It's workable with the purpose of in attendance might happen several versions, at the same time as in attendance were the S2, with a universal HSPA+ compatible GSM phone in support of the UK. With the purpose of believed, the after that generation of from top to bottom finish campaign can well convey with 4G taking part in grounding in support of the arrival of networks taking part in 2013.

Perhaps the nearly all motivating delicacy to be as tall as not in of the Korean describe is with the purpose of Samsung design to bundle accept certificate applications which spirit get paid depletion of the Galaxy S3's all but prevent contact (NFC) functionality. It was earlier reported with the purpose of Samsung is to team up with travel permit to launch 3,000 contactless payment terminals on the event.

Travel permit hasn't been waiting on handset makers and is pushing a downloadable transportable app to NFC-capable phones but the NFC capability of the approaching S3 is predictable to enclose out-of-the-box devotion support. Veto doubt contactless payments spirit article taking part in the Galaxy S3 marketing onslaught to be as tall as.

2012年3月1日星期四

H-P Forays into Patient Care Business

The leading PC manufacturer in the sphere of the humankind, Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) recently announced with the aim of it is venturing into the long-suffering think about topic. HP has won a contract from the Runnymede Healthcare Centre in the sphere of Canada, where the latter command deploy the HP Converged Infrastructure. The solution is likely to facilitate long-suffering think about and reduce IT administration count and overheads.

Runnymade Healthcare was earlier pain from huge interact downtime with an outdated data infrastructure. This affected the long-suffering think about service of the client and resulted in the sphere of delays whilst the sanatorium stick accessed applications underneath long-suffering think about in a row and led to weakening of services.

HP has critically addressed the quandary by implementing HP LeftHand luggage compartment and HP ProLiant Servers by the side of its different service. The long-suffering think about segment is likely to grow across the globe having the status of companies like processor Sciences Corporation (CSC), Siemens and GE Healthcare are likely to grab the opportunity in the sphere of this theme. Diversification has until the end of time been the strategy on behalf of HP despite the piece of evidence with the aim of it is ranked the leader in the sphere of the PC marketplace and this is rebuff exception.

Moreover, with selected businesses of the company facing stiff competition from other players, alternate topic ventures retain emerged having the status of the order of the day of the week to counter the revenue decline. The company is facing issues in the sphere of its hub segments, with the aim of is PCs and Printers.

Competition in the sphere of the printing liberty is heating up specified the incessant roll unfashionable of quality printing policy by the side of competitive prices by other expertise giants plus Samsung, rule (CAJ), Epson and Lexmark (LXK). This has resulted in the sphere of a value war in the sphere of the printing liberty, which in the sphere of become is heartwarming the margin of the company.

Several factors are heartwarming the topic of the company and having the status of likely, Hewlett-Packard reported run of the mill basic quarter results, with revenue and pay packet declining substantially on a year-over-year basis. However, reported pay packet surpassed our estimate.

The company’s margins declined owing to the altercation rate fluctuations and greater mix of low-margin products along with competitive pricing on behalf of high-margin products. Foster, the company’s flash quarter guidance of 90-91 cents apiece share was inferior than our estimate of 95 cents by the side of the count. From now, the overall results of the company suffered despite the pay packet beat.

We believe with the aim of first in command Meg Whitman has a tough duty on her hands, especially having the status of topic growth of the company remains challenged due to the deterioration outer natural world, plus soft demand from Europe. Moreover, the company is implementing several strategies to convalesce volume in the sphere of 2012 in the sphere of order to drive revenues.