HP Launches 'Intelligent' ProLiant Gen8 Servers
22.05.12
Big News in Enterprise Servers: Gen8 HP's servers are currently the most strategically important hardware products the company designs and produces. The company has been the market leader in this department for 62 straight quarters. At the same time, its printer division has long been established as the global market leader, and its storage and networking hardware and end-user devices are all Top 3 players in their respective world markets.
For decades, HP has had to fight off competition from IBM, Dell and other smaller companies, and now it is facing some serious new competition from Cisco Systems for its Unified Computing System .
"A leader can never rest," Mark Potter, senior vice president and general manager of infrastructure software and blades, told the conference. "To continue to lead the market, we must continue to innovate. That's what we've done with Gen8."
The main news about the new ProLiant Generation 8 servers is that they now contain a so-called "Sea of Sensors" that enables more workload intelligence to be captured quickly and used, so that the units can report back to users and to integrators themselves about how they are performing.
Source: eWeek