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AMD
"When faced with a system refresh, IT managers are often looking to increase performance and consolidation, while pushing down power consumption and overall costs. This is no small challenge and with the new HP ProLiant BL465c blade server, based on the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, customers can take advantage of up to 24 processing cores in a high-density, 16 blade/10U enclosure configuration. AMD and HP have a long history of working together to simplify data center management. The power management features of the AMD Opteron platform and the flexibility of HP’s integrated FlexFabric adapter supporting converged networking are two great examples of the innovation available with these new blades designed to help drive down operational costs."
- Patrick Patla, corporate vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Division
Avanade
"With increasing demand for virtualized infrastructure, there is a need for cost-effective solutions that address server I/O architecture bottlenecks and associated costs and complexity. HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric technology helps address these issues by simplifying connectivity with higher levels of convergence while also reducing infrastructure costs. Avanade is excited about this new release and its potential as a component of Microsoft Hyper-V deployments. As one of the world’s largest Microsoft business technology services provider, Avanade sees virtualization with HP Virtual Connect as a way to increase VM scalability and performance and also improve service responsiveness and the ability to make on-demand infrastructure changes. Our customers benefit by taking advantage of increased efficiencies and management flexibility, allowing them to spend more time innovating."
- Patrick Cimprich, Vice President and Chief Architect, Global Technologies and Solutions.
BLADE Network Technologies
"Combining HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric module, with its ability to support Ethernet, Fibre Channel and iSCSI in a single device, and BLADE’s low-latency RackSwitch with Converged Enhanced Ethernet and VMready provides IT managers an ideal data center platform for a converged, virtualized network that simplifies server administration for today’s wire-once virtual machine environments. BLADE shares HP’s goal to drive innovation with standards-based, cost-effective solutions that reduce network complexity and associated costs."
- Tim Shaughnessy, Vice President, Marketing.
Broadcom
"Broadcom supports HP’s efforts to help customers simplify and converge their data center infrastructure. Our 10Gb Ethernet networking technology supports HP’s Virtual Connect offering with the performance, features and flexibility needed for providing cost-effective server connectivity solutions that maximize resources while reducing operating costs."
- Vinod Lakhani, Senior Director & General Manager.
Brocade
"We believe that the entire network infrastructure must eventually take on the performance, reliability and intelligence attributes of a data center network to meet the demands of a fully virtualized IT environment. Brocade is excited to collaborate with HP to provide customers with standards-based, flexible and scalable solutions that dramatically simplify and improve the performance, reliability and management of network infrastructures while also providing investment protection and greater cost efficiencies. This includes solutions that help ensure seamless interoperability between HP BladeSystem servers connecting to LANs and SANs with HP Virtual Connect and Brocade’s industry-leading non-stop networking technologies."
- Doug Ingraham, Vice President of Data Center Product Management.
Cap Gemini
"One of the last remaining technology challenges in a highly virtualized blade environment has been the network component. The complexity of connects, both Ethernet and Fiber, has put strains on the blade capacity with multiple adapters and connection complexity. HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric module is the path to removing both the complexity and the bottlenecks associated with the connection challenges. A single FlexFabric adapter supports multiple “personalities”, removes the complexity at the servers edge, reduces cost, and speeds deployment, all while adhering to industry standards. This advanced technology should help clients and partners alike in real cost savings with less complexity and improved performance."
- Joseph Coyle, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.
Citrix Systems
"Joint Citrix and HP customers can be confident in knowing that we are dedicated to ensuring our products work together as seamlessly as possible and that the resulting solutions will help customers maximize value from their IT investments. By closely collaborating with HP to ensure HP Virtual Connect and Citrix XenServer can be fully integrated, customers have been able to take advantage of HP’s flexible networking capabilities within their server virtualization environment."
- N. Louis Shipley, Group Vice President and General Manager, XenServer Products Group.
Emulex
"Customers are seeking cost-effective LAN and SAN connectivity solutions that provide increased efficiencies and flexibility. Emulex is excited to support HP’s effort to bring innovation to the data center by providing our OneConnect™ Universal Converged Network Adapter technology for use in the new HP ProLiant G7 server blades working with HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric module, delivering the simplest, most flexible way to connect to any network. This helps customers accelerate network convergence and simplify their infrastructure, eliminating 95% of associated network access equipment and reducing power and cooling costs by 40%."
- Steve Daheb, Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development.
Fusion-io
"Fusion-io is excited to support HP’s efforts to drive innovation in the data center and deliver new levels of infrastructure efficiencies, performance and cost savings. HP’s new IO Accelerator card, developed with Fusion-io’s breakthrough ioMemory technology, running in HP ProLiant servers, provides customers with an innovative, cost-effective solution that dramatically accelerates application performance and reduces latency across a range of I/O intensive workloads including database, web services and virtualization. These rack and blade based solutions enable customers to consolidate, simplify and scale their data center infrastructure while also reducing associated costs."
- Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist.
Intel
"HP's innovative Virtual Connect architecture will extend virtualization performance and capabilities delivered through HP's BladeSystem c-class products. We are excited to see the continued innovation and focus on improving IT efficiencies and flexibility with c-class, especially when driven by Intel's Xeon and Itanium processor based platforms."
- Boyd Davis, GM of Intel's Server Platforms Group, Marketing.
Mellanox Technologies
"Maximizing efficiency, utilization and flexibility in a highly virtualized environment is a key requirement for today’s data centers. The combination of HP’s Virtual Connect and Mellanox ConnectX-2 Flex-10 10GigE adapters delivers industry-leading latency and bandwidth for network connections. As a result, the solution using Mellanox ConnectX-2 expands the benefits of Virtual Connect for the most demanding applications in Web2.0, cloud computing, financial services, data warehousing and hosting environments."
- John Monson, Vice President of Marketing.
Novell
"Novell is excited to support HP's new Virtual Connect FlexFabric. Combining Virtual Connect FlexFabric's ability to support more virtual environments per blade with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server's unlimited guests per physical host pricing, will allow customers to lower their total cost of ownership and improve application quality of service and overall performance."
- David Smith, Vice President of Global Alliance Partners.
QLogic
"Realizing that tomorrow’s data center is about greater efficiency through virtualization, lower power consumption, increased bandwidth in smaller footprints and converged networking solutions, QLogic and HP continue to collaborate on driving higher performance and greater ease-of-use through highly innovative products. HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric module, which combines network convergence with I/O virtualization and wire-once connection management, uses the new QLogic “Bullet” FCoE ASIC, featuring innovative flex port technology that enables ports to be dynamically allocated to support Fibre Channel, iSCSI or FCoE data, instantaneously. Customers also benefit from the tight integration of HP Simple SAN Connection Manager (SSCM) and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), providing a unique, end-to-end view of server-to-storage connectivity in the fabric. QLogic is also working with HP to deliver a broad range of data center switching solutions, such as the new HP SN6000 12-Port model, that provide an efficient, scalable SAN architecture with high-performance stacking, availability, and simplicity for a wide range of enterprise environments."
- Scott Genereux, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing.
Red Hat
"Red Hat and HP have long been ahead of the industry in delivering superior price/performance on an open source/industry-standard operating platform. We're now bringing that shared commitment to virtualization. With HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat and HP are well equipped to help customers simplify their data centers, dramatically reduce costs, maximize flexibility and improve energy efficiency, by pooling, managing and sharing virtualized assets."
- Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business.
Symantec
"HP’s next generation of Integrity and ProLiant G7 servers along with HP Virtual Connect simplifies deployments for server hardware and network infrastructure, providing big benefits to our joint customers. The Symantec and HP partnership allows our customers to choose their architecture and couple it with a single software layer for storage management and high availability. Together, we support a converged infrastructure to ensure always-on resiliency. That’s critical to reducing complexity while still maintaining customer choice."
- Don Angspatt, Vice President of Product Management.
VMware
"Combining VMware vSphere™ with HP’s new Virtual Connect FlexFabric module helps enable customers to simplify and scale their infrastructure virtualization while reducing associated network complexity and associated costs. This also provides customers with increased virtual machine scalability and virtualization efficiencies. We’re excited to work with HP to help customers take advantage of these benefits and transform their data centers to enable cloud computing."
- Gary Green, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances.
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