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Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#11

Post by rbanffy »

sounds wrote: post #5
atlbeer wrote: post #2

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

I don't want to predict the future, but if HP thinks it can win over customers with 100% marketing and no technical details, that's not a good sign. I make the IT purchasing decisions for my company, and I know what an ARM CPU is, and why it's a good idea. Therefore, I know that HP's approach doesn't make sense: ARM hasn't been proven in this market. Therefore, customers and vendors (like HP) need to work very closel…

Ask them if they can lend you one that looks promising. Then run your workload on it and do some benchmarks. You should never rely on vendor-supplied data to make your decisions

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#12

Post by wmf »

sounds wrote: post #5
atlbeer wrote: post #2

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

I don't want to predict the future, but if HP thinks it can win over customers with 100% marketing and no technical details, that's not a good sign. I make the IT purchasing decisions for my company, and I know what an ARM CPU is, and why it's a good idea. Therefore, I know that HP's approach doesn't make sense: ARM hasn't been proven in this market. Therefore, customers and vendors (like HP) need to work very closel…

...win over customers with 100% marketing and no technical details...

Hasn't the enterprise market worked that way for years?

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#14

Post by seltzered_ »

sounds wrote: post #5
atlbeer wrote: post #2

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

I don't want to predict the future, but if HP thinks it can win over customers with 100% marketing and no technical details, that's not a good sign. I make the IT purchasing decisions for my company, and I know what an ARM CPU is, and why it's a good idea. Therefore, I know that HP's approach doesn't make sense: ARM hasn't been proven in this market. Therefore, customers and vendors (like HP) need to work very closel…

Think of this as Calxeda/HP's minimum viable product in the ARM server market. Someone's gotta put something out there to get feedback.

I wouldn't be surprised if they give some servers away to big enough companies in exchange for feedback on how to make deployment software going forward.

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#16

Post by scott_s »

atlbeer wrote: post #2

Here's a good article summarizing the HP site which does a horrid job explaining what it actually is http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

Thank you, I looked at very link on the HP page, twice, and learned nothing about what they actually were going to sell. I googled "Redstone Server Development", and I found some more recent articles: http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/231902061/hp-intros-low-...

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

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Post by jonursenbach »

lreeves wrote: post #7
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #4

HPs urls are terrible: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx

No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major company still using cruft like that I can think of is IBM. Totally unnecessary.

Amazon is up there too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g6...

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#18

Post by mbreese »

jonursenbach wrote: post #17
lreeves wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major company still using cruft like that I can think of is IBM. Totally unnecessary.

Amazon is up there too. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g6...

At least with Amazon, all you need is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW

Which isn't too bad...

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#19

Post by cpeterso »

mbreese wrote: post #18
jonursenbach wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon is up there too. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g6...

At least with Amazon, all you need is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW Which isn't too bad...

Or even: http://amazon.com/dp/B003O6G5TW

or: http://amzn.com/B003O6G5TW

Re: HP's new ARM-based Servers

#20

Post by xtacy »

jonursenbach wrote: post #17
lreeves wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No kidding. Clearly they're using IIS, which has the equivalents of mod_rewrite built-in. Why would they keep using such awful URLs? The only other major company still using cruft like that I can think of is IBM. Totally unnecessary.

Amazon is up there too. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O6G5TW/ref=s9_hps_bw_g6...

Google too:

https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/

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