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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by rstupek » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:35 AM UTC

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #36

Let's just remember that HP is led by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of large scale cloud computing: "We hear all the time that people are building their own servers. There are a few...that are building their own servers," she said. Whitman continued. "[But] right now, they're not building their own servers because they can't get the disk drives. So they're calling us...Yes, the Googles, the Facebook…

Actually at the time Facebook was buying a large number of servers from HP and having them built with Fusion IO drives for their database systems. Not sure when they scaled that back to their own custom built stuff.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by thrownaway2424 » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:37 AM UTC

MichaelGG wrote: post #39

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #36

Let's just remember that HP is led by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of large scale cloud computing: "We hear all the time that people are building their own servers. There are a few...that are building their own servers," she said. Whitman continued. "[But] right now, they're not building their own servers because they can't get the disk drives. So they're calling us...Yes, the Googles, the Facebook…

I don't understand. It sounds like she's just saying they are calling HP to buy drives for their own servers. Which easily may have been true right? It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.

No, I don't think it could easily have been true at all. Google puts the worst, cheapest drives they found on the side of the road in their servers. HP sells a 36GB SAS drive for $2000.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:37 AM UTC

MichaelGG wrote: post #39

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #36

Let's just remember that HP is led by someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of large scale cloud computing: "We hear all the time that people are building their own servers. There are a few...that are building their own servers," she said. Whitman continued. "[But] right now, they're not building their own servers because they can't get the disk drives. So they're calling us...Yes, the Googles, the Facebook…

I don't understand. It sounds like she's just saying they are calling HP to buy drives for their own servers. Which easily may have been true right? It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.

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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:42 AM UTC

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #42

MichaelGG wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand. It sounds like she's just saying they are calling HP to buy drives for their own servers. Which easily may have been true right? It doesn't sound like she's saying they're now buying HP servers.

No, I don't think it could easily have been true at all. Google puts the worst, cheapest drives they found on the side of the road in their servers. HP sells a 36GB SAS drive for $2000.

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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:46 AM UTC

wmf wrote: post #21

pm90 wrote: post #18

Rackspace Inc. announced earlier this year that it would no longer sell such services What?

Rackspace has gradually transitioned from "cloud with optional support" to "support with cloud thrown in" to "support for AWS".

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Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by retr0h » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 12:59 AM UTC

dendory wrote: post #40

HP is everywhere in the enterprise, from servers to desktops and every peripheral in between. I doubt they are going away any time soon. But as tech evolves, it does seem like the company is being left behind. I predict another IBM in the making. You know they still sell mainframes? You just don't typically see that in the news.

You do realize IBM has hired the top OpenStack talent that was previously at HP building this public cloud.

Re: HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

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Post by krylon » Sat, Oct 24, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #4

What was the last thing HP did that wasn't rubbish?

The ProLiant micro servers are pretty good for a home / small office environment.

Also, we have three managed 24/48 port switches at work that have not given me any grief.

(We also have an EliteBook 17" notebook that for its price of ~ €1700 should totally kick ass but instead seems to be the slowest notebook in the entire company. All in all, HP notebooks seem to be more trouble than their counterparts from, say, Lenovo or Dell.)