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Innovation is being taken seriously at HP, where the converged infrastructure is designed to lead to more agile, reliable infrastructure. Penny Jones caught up with Peter Ryan, HP's head for Networking, Storage and Servers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, at the Foxconn-run HP factory just outside of Prague, where HP's PODs and enterprise products are made, to find out what this means to HP's product line. You c an read more about the Foxconn factory, and innovation at HP in FOCUS 20, out March.
Innovation at HP
Hear what Gartner VP & Distinguished Analyst Carl Claunch had to say about Cisco, HP, IBM and Oracle, and the changing data center vendor space, at the recent Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit in London last month. This video offers some interesting takes on the future vendor space, and what we can expect from acquisitions and mergers as competition heats up.
Gartner on competition in the IT vendor space
Microsoft has published a video outlining key concepts for its Generation 4 Modular Data Center , which it unveiled in Dec 2008. Heres a look at the details of the new design, which relies on data center containers, modular pre-fabriacted electrical and mechanical infrastructure, and no chillers.
Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision
Colt's new Modular Data Centres are manufactured in approved facilities using modern production line techniques geared to providing high quality and high specification data centre halls. They are available in upwards of 500m2 ‘building blocks’. Clients can choose to place them in one of Colt's own major data centres where they can be operated and managed by Colt. Colt can also install and commission the data centre at other locations.
The Colt Modular Data Centre: a radical new approach to data centre build-out HQ
This short video introduces HP's FlexDC, a flexible data center that reduces time and cost by allowing choices from a strictly defined "menu" of electrical and mechanical systems and type of construction.
A video-introduction-to-HPs-latest modular data center offering: Flex-DC