AMD
“AMD understands the complex demands placed on data centers today, with businesses pressured to accommodate both performance and energy consumption requirements. To deliver on these challenges, businesses are increasingly looking for hardware that will fully maximize virtualization technology in their data center. AMD is proud to work with HP in addressing these issues with their new HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology and the new HP ProLiant BL 495c virtualization blade server. Combined with the exceptional virtualization performance of the enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, these solutions provide customers an extremely robust and flexible IT environment.”
- Patrick Patla, Vice President and General
Manager, Server and Workstation division.
Global Labs at Avanade
“With the increased use of virtualization, more communications and memory resources are required to drive the high levels of utilization typical with virtualized hosts. HP’s new Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module and their new BL495c server help address these concerns by increasing memory and communications density. 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 systems integrator, Avanade sees virtualization as an integral part of many of our customer solutions. The increased density, reduced costs, and improved flexibility brought by these new products will allow our customers to do more with less.”
- Weston Fraser, Manager of Global Labs
BLADE Network Technologies
“The combination of HP Virtual Connect Flex-10, with its ability to allocate and fine tune NIC bandwidth, and BLADE’s RackSwitch provide IT managers an ideal data center virtualization platform for consolidating LAN connections and simplifying server administration in today’s wire-once virtual machines environments. BLADE’s RackSwitch products are designed to be ‘Virtual, Cooler and Easier’ so that data centers can ease deployment and ensure the success of virtualization.”
- Vikram Mehta, President and CEO
Broadcom’s High-Speed Controller line of business
“We are very excited that our 10GbE C-NIC is shipping as the first LAN-on-Motherboard solution on a leading server platform and supporting HP Virtual Connect Flex-10. This milestone, along with the adoption of our 10GbE switch, speaks volumes about the quality and acceptance of our end-to-end 10GbE technology. We are pleased to have contributed our technology to the industry's first server with 10GbE standard on the motherboard and look forward to our continued collaboration with HP as the industry transitions from Gigabit Ethernet to 10GbE."
- Vinod Lakhani, Senior Director and General Manager
Brocade Server Division
“Combining HP Virtual Connect with Brocade’s advanced Data Center Fabric functionality for Adaptive Networking delivers the end-to-end networking intelligence required to support the performance, scalability, and management necessary for next-generation datacenter virtualization. Building on the long relationship between Brocade and HP, we expect further integration between HP Virtual Connect and advanced Brocade DCF functionality in the near future.”
- Luc Moyen, Vice President and General Manager
Capgemini
“Much has been done to address the challenge of using virtualization to do the heavy lifting with big applications. But the real challenge comes with how to accommodate the increasingly numerous small applications. As businesses grow, so do the number of applications under the influences of using ‘services’ internally through SOA and externally on the Web. Current virtualization approaches free up processors for the big jobs but there has been little help with the morass of smaller apps and especially addressing associated network bandwidth limitations. The new HP BladeSystem approach to virtualizing through Virtual Connect Flex10 is part of a completely new approach bringing together all the elements to create a fully managed virtual operating environment covering everything consolidating the network connections to the connected software environment and workload management.”
- Andy Mulholland, Global Chief Technology Officer
XenServer Products Group, Citrix
“HP and Citrix have worked together to make virtualization a natural extension of the hardware platform. As a result, we have enabled enterprises of all sizes to accelerate their adoption of server virtualization with a seamless user experience. With the specialized features now available in the new HP Virtual Connect Flex-10, businesses can further their virtualization strategies with a highly cost effective virtualization platform for a broad range of workloads.”
- Lou Shipley, group Vice President and General Manager
Data Center Services, Product Management
“Moving to a virtualized environment helps clients better utilize resources – saving physical space, energy and money; improving operational performance; and ensuring business continuity. EDS anticipates that the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 will help make virtualization simpler and cost-effective while EDS delivers the management and orchestration that is essential to successful virtualization. The combination of HP technology with EDS services helps ensure that moving to a virtualized environment will enable better business outcomes.”
- Stewart Hair, Managing Director
Manhattan Associates
“The HP BladeSystem will provide our customers with enhanced flexibility in developing and deploying new workloads on a significantly smaller hardware footprint with the subsequent reduction in data center power requirements and operating costs. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology allows Manhattan customers to consolidate and optimize their network connections while maximizing their use of our supply chain optimization platforms, resulting in maximized performance and flexibility, without the capacity challenges that were symptomatic of previous generations of virtualization technology.”
- Eddie Capel, Executive Vice President for Product Management and Customer Support
Worldwide Product Management at McAfee
"Virtualization is being widely deployed in enterprise environments to reduce ownership costs, enable consolidation, and improve operational efficiencies. The latest additions to the HP BladeSystem family, the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10, enhances these virtualization benefits with increased memory capacity, power savings, and network consolidation such that enterprises can benefit from the full potential of virtualization technology. Combining McAfee Total Protection for Virtualization with the HP BladeSystem infrastructure extends security across virtual and physical environments and sets a new standard for securing virtualized infrastructures."
- Brian Foster, Senior Vice President
Server and Tools Business at Microsoft Corp
“Microsoft and HP are working together to help customers obtain the full value of their Microsoft virtualization software and HP services and solutions. Customers and partners are responding well to the joint solutions and initiatives for desktop and datacenter virtualization and holistic management. This response can be seen in customers such as MLS Property Information Network and Land O’Lakes amongst many others, and our initiatives will fuel continued value for new customers.”
- Zane Adam, Senior Director of Virtualization Strategy
SUSE Linux Enterprise at Novell
“Novell will support HP's new Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules on current and future versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. The combination of HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell running on HP's BL495c blades delivers a powerful, fully supported 'wire-once' environment, with enhanced performance, scalability and quality of service. Customers get simplified management and administration of virtual machines and consolidated LAN and SAN connections, saving them time and money."
- Holger Dyroff, Vice President of Product
Management
Nth Generation
“With the explosion of virtual servers in our environment, we are looking for new ways to optimize the infrastructure. Virtual Connect Flex-10 kills two birds with one stone by consolidating network equipment and helping us make better use of our network bandwidth.”
- Leigh Carpenter, Senior Consultant
Oracle
“Oracle is committed to delivering higher value and continuing cost savings to customers through virtualization solutions. We applaud HP’s efforts to accelerate the adoption of virtualization with the release of their new HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology, Customers can now experience greater benefits with the combination of Oracle VM server virtualization software and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 and BladeSystems hardware.”
- Wim Coekaerts, Vice President Linux Engineering
Parallels
“HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 provides customers with new levels of flexibility and control with its ability to consolidate, allocate and fine tune NIC connection bandwidth. Coupled with the unmatched density of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, this results in one of the most green computing environments available.”
- Ezequiel Steiner, Senior VP of Corporate and Business Development
HP ProCurve
“HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 is an exciting new product in the Virtualization space which adds significant flexibility and network consolidation as part of HP’s already substantial Virtualization offerings. The use of the Virtual Connect Flex-10 products with ProCurve’s Adaptive Edge Architecture switches provides our customers the choice of a seamless, industry standard connection between the network and HP’s leading blade servers that has unequaled performance, flexibility and cost effectiveness in the industry today.”
- Lin Nease, Director of Emerging Technologies
Platform Business Unit at Red Hat
"With the high-performance virtualization capabilities built into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat is able to deliver reduced costs, compelling energy savings and increased hardware resource utilization for our customers. Our leadership in the open source community and close integration with the Linux kernel will enhance our ability to support HP's Virtual Connect Flex-10, With the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module and HP BL495c server blade, customers will be offered unique increases in productivity, flexibility and return on investment (ROI) for virtual machines."
- Scott Crenshaw, Vice President
SAS
"HP’s new Virtual Connect Flex-10 and BL495c blade server will provide SAS customers with significant performance and scalability enhancements to better meet their most mission critical business intelligence needs. HP enhances virtualization benefits with more memory capacity and improved interconnect capability so that SAS software can run in a fully fault-tolerant, high-power, low-cost, flexible environment."
- Craig Rubendall, Director of Research and Development
Scalent Systems
“We are pleased to extend our support of HP BladeSystem customers with support for HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 and the HP ProLiant BL495c Virtualization Blade Server. Scalent’s non-disruptive approach to infrastructure virtualization has been deployed across many of the Fortune 500 to dramatically improve utilization and agility of the physical and virtual servers in their data centers.”
- Kevin Epstein, VP Marketing
VMware
“Together, the VMware platform and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology can enhance the flexibility of business-critical applications and reduce the total cost of application delivery for customers. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 helps companies fine-tune network bandwidth and enhance connectivity in virtualized environments while VMware provides a secure virtualization platform with industry-leading manageability and resiliency. This comb
ination has all the ingredients necessary for a cost-effective, highly available application environment that provides on-demand flexibility for enterprise datacenters and cloud computing.”
- Ben Matheson, Senior Director, Marketing
