HP Blades Tech Day 1

HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was.  Here is a summary of the day’s activities.

Innocence, Fairness, and Technology Benchmarks

HP recently commissioned Tolley Group to benchmark their BladeSystem c7000 against the Cisco UCS 5100. The short report focuses on two results, and reads like so many competitive benchmarks in the IT industry: Tolley focuses on metrics that highlight the strength of HP’s solution and the weaknesses of Cisco’s. What’s the real value of pinpoint maximum-performance benchmarks like this?