More than 20 years ago, HP introduced the first successful commercial UNIX server, the HP 9000 Series 840, as well as the first x86 server, the HP SystemPro.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
The new HP Moonshot system is the second-generation server from HP's Project Moonshot.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
She spent two hours at HP's base in Palo Alto in a meeting with the insider who had just been passed over for the top job: Ann Livermore, the HP server chief.
Built from HP's industry-leading server intellectual property (IP) and 10 years of extensive research from HP Labs, the company's central research arm, HP Moonshot delivers a significant improvement in energy, space, cost and simplicity.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
While IBM held a 44% share of the blade server market, once dominant HP has 25%.
There is still lots of room for architectural experiments and competition, as demonstrated by HP recently entering the disaggregated server space with their Moonshot 1500 System.
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The HP Converged Cloud solutions will feature Windows Server 2012 and provides customers with a clear path to go beyond virtualization and accelerate their cloud transformation.
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The HP Moonshot 1500 System uses a modular, server cartridge and an ecosystem approach including a wide range of silicon partners to differentiate based on choice of workloads and acceleration technologies.
For hardware, HP engineered flexible standards-based interfaces into their server cartridge architecture so that nearly any kind of accelerator or processor developer can make a cartridge.
These include low-cost remote access appliances like the PogoPlug, midrange NAS storage devices such as Netgear's Stora, and expensive but powerful solutions that cater to the technically inclined, such as HP's MediaSmart products powered by Windows Home Server.
More than a decade later, HP was granted one of the first patents for blade server architectures.
ENGADGET: HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future
But HP is well along on one part of the solution: server consolidation.
Kenneth O'Donnell , lead reliability engineer at Boeing, is looking to overhaul 80 motors--between 5 hp and 7.5 hp--that run cooling fans at the company's giant server farm in Kent, Wash.
And he notes that HP, IBM and Cisco are competing more with Dell in the SMB and server markets.
In this account, HP responds to the evolving requirements of a fairly new (dating from around 2007) sector in the server business, the mega-datacenter.
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