As 3PAR is integrated into HP, there is a lot of new stuff to for us to figure out. One of the most important concepts at HP is Converged Infrastructure (CI). The basic idea of CI is to maximize a customer's investement in technology by consolidating resources in common, modular building blocks. 3PAR customers are already accustomed to the idea from with our InServ storage systems, but CI goes far beyond 3PAR's storage vision by including server and network technologies. It's a big idea with huge implications for product engineering, manufacturing, maintenance and support - and it raises the importance of software in data center solutions.
Marc, Very Informative and Creative Video..
Posted by: Devang | October 27, 2010 at 09:04 AM
Thanks Devang!
Posted by: marc farley | October 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Hp's data center vision is very interesting. Even now there are certain racks from Valrack and APW which have built in air conditioning systems so that there is no need to cool the entire room, when you actually want to cool only the servers! Hp is the right company to take on Cisco in its vision of data centers, and we hope that there will be a healthy competition between the two that will bring a lot of innovations to the Data Center technologies!
Posted by: excitingip.net | October 29, 2010 at 04:16 AM
Thanks for sharing Marc, great video!
Posted by: Eric van der Meer | October 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Glad you liked it.
Posted by: marc farley | October 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM
This concept is not new. Google basically created the POD concept. Their data-centers are exactly that. Simply do a search on Youtube to find out. They have buildings fill with PODs back in 2005.
Sun, HP, SGI, IBM, Microsoft and others are trying the same thing since none of them could do like they did at the cost they have.
That is on the hardware side only. On the software side they use free open source to create the rest. Probably the biggest game change in IT since firm processor in 54's.
No major IT vendors believed they could succeed with this model...and they did. Today we are all talking about Cloud...
That is why vendors tried to acquire and promote open-source software. The biggest one was the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). They tried to capture mind share and know how of startups like Facebook, MySpace, eBay, Amazone etc. The first could apps.
Posted by: visiotech | October 31, 2010 at 01:47 PM
Great work simple drawings and informative.
Posted by: Jeff | November 01, 2010 at 03:28 PM