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What happened to Mark Hurd's SuperDome memory?

What happened to Mark Hurd's SuperDome memory?Cheap ShotIt is not surprising that Mr. Hurd cannot amplify on the information regarding what occured with the poorly advised attempt to plug the board room leaks. However he has accepted responsibilty for what happened, he has gained no personal benefit from the event...

Tags: Mark Hurd, Superdome

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Sun's modernized big iron

Sun's modernized big ironThe SUN x4600 smashes HP's 16P Superdomewith 16 1.5GHZ Itanium 2s in floating point and integer performance.The superdome costs $1 million.the x4600 costs $70Khttp://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/07/sun-galaxy-x4600-smashes-superdome.htmlAnother great tech breakthroughfrom the stumblebums of marketing. I guess you really CAN'T learn from other's SUCCESSES - i.e. M$ taking subpar software and...

Tags: Processors, SSD, Sun Microsystems Inc., superdome

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

Photo: HP's new Superdome server

Hewlett-Packard is taking the wraps off the third "Arches" generation of its top-end Superdome server.

Tags: Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, photograph

Image galleries 2006-03-20

Photo: HP's new Superdome server

Hewlett-Packard is taking the wraps off the third "Arches" generation of its top-end Superdome server.

Tags: Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, photograph

Image galleries 2006-03-19

Photo: HP's new Superdome server

Hewlett-Packard is taking the wraps off the third "Arches" generation of its top-end Superdome server.

Tags: Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., server, photograph

Image galleries 2006-03-19

HP brings OpenVMS to the SuperDome

HP brings OpenVMS to the SuperDomeToo tought to kill!Better than "just good enough".Stop rewriting history!!The first 64bit Alpha VMs systems were brought out by *Digital*! Porting to 64bit is nothing new, many of us did it then. We've been waiting for the rest of the world to catch...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Servers, VAXen, VMS, Superdome, HP OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2004-05-07

Additional Resources

Sun: Our quarter stunk; Oracle: We'll get our accretive earnings anyway

Sun: Our quarter stunk; Oracle: We'll get our accretive earnings anywaySun's acquisition by Oracle I agree with you Larry, Sun's hardware division has been a drain on Sun for 9 years. IBM's z-series and HP's superdome consolidation/virtualization has made centralization cost effective over server farm. While x86...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Financial accounting, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?

Hewlett-Packard's John Pickett has it in for mainframes. In fact, he has been known to call them the SUVs of the computer industry, big pieces of gadgetry that are over-powered. As the Mainframe Alternative Program Manager in HP's ESS Marketing group, Pickett is responsible for evangelizing the...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, TTX, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Bank of Shanghai Reforms Its Core Banking System With HP Superdome Servers, HP XP Storage, HP Virtualisation Solutions and T24 Core Banking Solution

Bank of Shanghai is one of the most dynamic and influential banks in China. According to The Banker's 2004 Top 1,000 world banks listing, Bank of Shanghai is also among the biggest in the world. It needed to overhaul the legacy IT environment into an integrated core banking system and...

Tags: Bank, HP Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Server, Bank Of Shanghai, Financial Services, Banking

Case studies 2009-07-01

General Mills IT Supports Continued Business Evolution With HP Servers

General Mills was operating one of the largest SAP R/2 installations in the world on a mainframe system. The company faced a crucial decision when planning an upgrade to SAP R/3 to take advantage of new features: stay with the mainframe, or move to HP-UX 11i? When research at that...

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., General Mills Inc., Information Technology, SAP AG, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Tools on HP Integrity rx8640 and Superdome Servers

HP Integrity servers that can provide the scalability and high availability needed to support mid-range to high-end Business Intelligence BI and data warehousing applications. This white paper refers to testing performed by HP to characterize the performance of a range of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 tools when deployed on HP...

Tags: HP Integrity, HP Superdome, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Best Practice, Tool, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Databases, Business Intelligence, Programming Languages, Utility Computing, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-01

How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.

Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...

Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzyItanium doesn't stand a chance to NehalemOne things for sure (and probably why Intels Tukwila/Itanium has slipped by about a year) is that Itanium doesn't stand a chance against Nehalem and even when Tukwila does arrive, will have a tough ride against Nehalem-EX....

Tags: Semiconductors, Servers, Processors, transistor, Nehalem, electron, Ballistic Deflection Transistor, single core server, Intel Itanium, server

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

HP Technologies Enhance SAP ERP System for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Company Limited DSME successfully realized a more transparent management system by introducing SAP Enterprise Resource Planning ERP into its operations. With this introduction, the global shipbuilding company strengthens competitiveness through continuous Process Innovation PI activities. Recently, it upgraded the existing SAP ERP system, establishing an...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., ERP System, SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), EAI, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Hardware Upgrade, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Software, Middleware, Hardware, Storage

Case studies 2009-02-01

IBM WebSphere MQ V7 Performance Report on HP-UX 11i V3 and HP Integrity Servers

IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 on HP-UX has similar performance characteristics to WebSphere MQ V6. This paper shows the throughput for Local, Client and Distributed Queuing using 2 kilobyte message sizes with non-persistent non-trusted (NP_NT), non-persistent trusted NP and persistent message PM types. Larger message sizes of 20K, 200K and 2M...

Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM WebSphere, Performance, Oracle11i, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM Corp., Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

HP System VLSI Lab Builds Infrastructure for Next-Generation Chip Design With HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software

The HP System VLSI Lab SVL is responsible for designing and testing the high-performance, high-end Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIC chipsets that work in concert with Intel's Itanium processors to power HP Superdome servers. SVL wanted to build a computing and storage infrastructure capable of supporting the design of the next...

Tags: Software, NAS, Hewlett-Packard Co., VLSI, HP System VLSI Lab, Chipsets, ASICs, Utility Computing, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Semiconductors, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Components, Storage

Case studies 2008-12-01

Accelerating Business Analytics

A global leader in the chemicals industry, Celanese makes a wide range of products for consumer and industrial applications. Celanese wanted to increase the performance of business intelligence systems-accelerate query response times from the company's SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence BI component software to deliver faster access to information and improve...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Business Analytics, Web Services, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Business Intelligence, Processors, Databases, Software, Marketing, Management, Data Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-12-01

The Combination of HP Integrity Superdome Servers and HP-UX 11i V3 Enabled China Post to Achieve Its IT and Business Objectives

With the extensive reformation of China's financial system - coupled with the computerisation and automation of the country's postal financial system - China's current electronic exchange processing system had been unable to support the development of its business operations. In order to adapt to a constantly changing market, optimise its...

Tags: HP Integrity, China, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Oracle11i, HP Integrity Superdome, Financial Planning, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategy, Servers, Databases, Finance, Software, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

Parallels Operating System Virtualization for HP Integrity Line

An announcement when out last week that Parallels and HP have chosen to collaborate and offer Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to HP Integrity server customers. The goal of this partnership is to help HP's customers make the most efficient use of the power of HP's Integrity line all the way up...

Tags: HP Integrity, Parallels Virtuozzo, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Hewlett-Packard Co., Operating System, Hardware, OS Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Desktop Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Norway Telco Calls Up HP Integrity Superdome to Supercharge Billing and CRM Services

Norway's second largest mobile telephone operator, NetCom, is a wholly owned business of telecommunications leader TeliaSonera (www.teliasonera.com). The company wanted to improve their ability to respond to market and business changes, centralize Customer Relationship Management CRM and billing services, and lower server maintenance and support costs. NetCom upgraded to HP...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., CRM Services, CRM, HP Integrity Superdome, Advertising & Promotion, Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Servers, Marketing, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-07-01