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HP/Illuminata Matrix Podcast #1: Infrastructure by the Pound
This interview podcast #1 with Illuminata's Jonathan Eunice and HP's Gary Thome explains how the HP BladeSystem Matrix enables shared services with speed and agility.
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The HP ProLiant G6 Lineup
Learn how to spend less for power, maximize virtualization and make every dollar count with HP's new ProLiant G6 lineup.
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HP’s Insight Orchestration option
Enabling IT organizations to rapidly and consistenly provision and repurpose pools of shared infrastructure and manage their infrastructure lifecycle from planning all the way through to retirement.
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What does the expanded HP and Sun partnership agreement mean to you - listen here
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Customer Testimonials

BlueLock builds growing infrastructure as a service business.
BlueLock eliminates capital expenses for IT infrastructure while delivering the capacity customers need throughout the year, by leveraging a flexible high-performance architecture based on server virtualization.

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Qualcomm manages more than 285 servers per administrator with VMware and the HP BladeSystem
Qualcomm Increase data center scalability despite power, space, and cooling constraints with HP BladeSystem.
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Technology nonprofit cools down, speeds up with HP Adaptive Infrastructure: TechSoup Global saves time, money, and space using the HP BladeSystem and VMware
TechSoup Global enabled the creation of a next-generation data center through server consolidation and virtualization by trading in old servers, installing HP BladeSystem and VMware virtualization software, and integrating the entire solution with the storage area network.
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Savvis sharpens its edge in a competitive market with HP
Savvis selects HP quad-core, quad processor servers to reduce customer costs for managed hosting services by up to 50 percent.
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For a research race potentially affecting tens of millions of lives, Pharmasset chooses the HP BladeSystem
HP helps Pharmasset deploy maximum computing power within tightening space, power, cooling and administration-time requirements with HP ProLiant c-Class Server Blades in an HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure.
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Small is beautiful: HP BladeSystem helps Microsoft® be more profitable
Space was the last frontier at the Microsoft Technology Center in Irvine, California, and an HP BladeSystem conquered it. Microsoft Technology Centers are showcases for customers to see IT solutions. With the floor space and administration time saved, staff is launching two new services that will generate revenue.
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At First American, HP BladeSystem makes one out of many
Over 300 HP c-Class blades are projected to deliver $714,000 in power savings, streamline consolidation, and reduce TCO by 30 percent at First American.
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Mitchell International shares their data center solutions
What drives change in your data center? Listen to Kiran Sanghi as he discusses his approach to solving the challenges he faced in Mitchell International’s data center.
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St. Luke's Hospital Manages Exploding Infrastructure and Cost
How do you manage an exploding infrastructure and keep a handle on spiraling costs? Learn how St. Luke’s, Robbie Tomison turned to HP’s C-Class BladeSystem to build out his data center to meet St. Luke’s fast growing demands.
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Learn how Nth Generation Reduced server sprawl
Learn how Matthew Weiner Project Manager from Nth Generation was able to reduce "server sprawl" and focus IT support on business critical applications while providing the flexibility to grow his business and contain future costs.
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How do you replace 7000+ scattered desk-tops in a two month period?
What if you were challenged to replace 7000 or so geographically dispersed desktops in a short period of time? Listen to Tom Petry from Collier County School district and see how he streamlined the high cost of maintaining PC's with centralized remote administration.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield grows their data center without adding space
When Blue Cross Blue Shield was faced with the challenge of expanding their datacenter, they realized they were literally out of room. They could not add anything further to their power grid or physically in the room itself. They turned to HP and the new c-Class Blade System.
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Enterprise Technologies

HP’s Thermal Logic
Listen in and hear how HP is combining energy measurement and control with energy efficient design.
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HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [VDI] solves many challenges of the desk-top environment
Listen in and hear how HP is combining energy measurement and control with energy efficient design.
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HP Virtual Connect makes your data center change ready
Learn how companies are utilizing HP's Virtual Connect to dramatically reduce the time to add, replace, or recover servers without impacting their LANs or SANs.
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Transforming Access in HP and Citrix
This podcast discusses the relevant customer benefits of fewer more powerful servers.
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HP BladeSystem

HP’s ProLiant BL680c G5 Server Blade
This server blade now supports the new Intel Xeon 7400 Series Processor, delivering the density you want with the performance you need to handle the most demanding enterprise class applications.
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HP’s ProLiant BL495c G5 Server Blade
With the ability to eliminate performance bottlenecks of a virtual machine host, the HP ProLiant BL495c G5 Server Blade is The world’s first virtualization blade.
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HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5 Server Blade
This server blade provides the highest performance for the lowest cost. Listen in to hear just how powerful this server is.
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HP's ProLiant BL260c G5 Server
Listen in to learn about today's most affordable & efficient server blade in the industry today.
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Designing for the Future: HP 10Gb Ethernet BL-c Switch
Is your data center beginning to overflow with cable sprawl? Feeling the bandwidth crunch? Today we're here to uncover a simple data center solution that can turn cable confusion to calm.
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HP BladeSystem - Expert in a Box
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Proliant Servers

HP ProLiant DL580 G5
This server offers unsurpassed flexibility and serviceability, base on the latest industry standard technologies.
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HP’s ProLiant DL385 G5p Server
Optimized specifically for virtualization and consolidation environments with twice the features to support more virtual machines and compute intensive applications.
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HP’s ProLiant DL120 G5 SATA Rack Server
Continually looking for ways to save money without sacrificing performance? Hear how the ProLiant DL120 G5 SATA Rack Server delivers the latest in performance at an affordable cost.
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HP’s ProLiant DL165 G5 Server - The affordable answer for your growing business
Listen in and learn more about the HP ProLiant DL165 G5, HP’s rack server solution designed specifically for cost-conscious users.
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Introducing HP’s ProLiant DL785 G5 Rack Server - Delivering More of Everything!
Listen in and learn about the HP ProLiant DL785 G5; the newest and most expandable additon to the award winning HP ProLiant product family. This 8-socket x86 server, with its highly scalable feature set, is the ideal choice for the growing enterprise class database, consolidation and virtualization environments seeking to improve server utilization and reduce server sprawl, while continuing to leverage all the familiar and easy to use ProLiant management tools and options.
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Servers you can grow with-The ProLiant 100 series
Do you want to be able to add or replace server drives on the fly to avoid taking critical applications offline? Do space constraints have you concerned about server or cable sprawl?This podcast details how growing businesses benefit from the simple, affordable and reliable ProLiant 100 family of servers.
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HP ProLiant DL580 G5
The HP ProLiant DL580 is now in its 5th generation. Here today to discuss the key enhancements is Janell Field Sultz from HP's Industry Standard Server platform marketing group.
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HP announces Proliant ML115
The trusted leader in servers, HP, announces the first ProLiant AMD tower server designed for small and medium businesses. A true server at a desktop price, the new HP ProLiant ML115 is packed with the essential features to keep pace with a growing business.
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HP ProLiant Multi-processor servers
This new podcast demonstrates how HP's innovations in the 4 socket HP Proliant DL 580 and 585 servers deliver an amazing 62 percent gain in customer performance and improved system efficiency.
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HP ProLiant Innovation series - Part 1
Welcome to a two part pod cast series around HP's Adaptive Infrastructure. Paul Miller, Vice President of marketing for Industry Standard Servers and Blade Systems at HP discusses exciting new technologies from HP and AMD that solve customers' problems and are changing the face of computing.
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HP ProLiant Innovation series - Part 2
Welcome to a two part pod cast series around HP's Adaptive Infrastructure. Paul Miller, Vice President of marketing for Industry Standard Servers and Blade Systems at HP discusses exciting new technologies from HP and AMD that solve customers' problems and are changing the face of computing.
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Insight Control Software

HP’s Insight Control suite
Listen in and hear how you can measure, track or control power and cooling as a resource with HP's Dynamic Power Capping.
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HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure w/ Citrix XenServer
HP's VDI is the integrated end to end desktop virtualization solution.

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HP Insight Control suite for Linux
Learn how this solution integrates open source technology with experience leveraged from HP's Linux products, while providing paths to the future with developing management technologies.
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Build a "best run" Server Infrastructure podcast
Do you sometimes feel that managing your server infrastructure is a moving target? Want to avoid costly adjustments? Hear solutions for monitoring and controlling your server infrastructure from almost anywhere.
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Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - The next generation Windows server
Windows Server 2008 is a major accomplishment for Microsoft and HP together. It is the most flexible and robust Windows server operating system to date, designed to power the next-generation of networks, applications, and web services. Listen in to hear why everyone is so excited about this new operating system.
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VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant Servers - Introduction
Looking for information about VMware 3i and HP? HP and VMware have developed a podcast to introduce you to HP VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant Servers.
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VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant Servers - Advanced
Listen in for a more advanced introduction of VMware ESX Server 3i for HP ProLiant Servers!
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Active Management on HP integrated VMware ESX Server 3i
HP integrated VMware ESX Server 3i is unique in the marketplace because it provides active hardware management. Find out what active hardware management can mean to your data center operations, and how HP and VMware have collaborated to deliver it to our customers.
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HP ProLiant iVirtualization Powered by Citrix XenServer - Packing a ‘virtual’ high performance punch
Listen in to hear how this solution combines seamless ProLiant integration and active hardware management to ensure confident virtual deployments.
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Rack, Power and Cooling

HP’s Rack and Power Infrastructure Solutions
Learn about HP's variety of rack options - designed to integrate with each other and your current infrastructure your IT environment needs
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HP Discusses Power and Cooling Fixes
Listen in to a few quick, low cost fixes that will make a big impact to the amount of power you consume and to your bottom line

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HP Discusses SPECpower
Listen in to learn how HP manages the relationship between power and performance at the server level
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HP Discusses AC or DC: Fact vs. Fiction
Listen in and hear how HP weighs in on the electrifying topic of AC vs. DC in the data center
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Cool Your Data Center with the new HP Modular Cooling System
Introducing the next generation water cooled rack for high density deployments of servers and blades. Learn about these “cool” features with Jeff Otchis from HP’s Industry Standard Server marketing team.
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Options

Next generation of SATA drives
Introducing the next generation of SATA drives, designed for the reliability and mass storage demanded by today's entry server and external storage environments.
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HP SAS Midline Drives
Introducing the next generation of SAS drives, designed for the reliability and mass storage demanded by today's entry server and external storage environments.
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HP Enterprise Drives
Designed for maximum reliability, high performance, scalability, error management, and unconstrained I/O workloads.
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Server Management Software

Cloud Enabling Computing for the Next Generation Data Center
Hear how the changing needs of massive scale-out computing is driving a transformation in technology and learn how HP is supporting this new evolution of the web.
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HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
The lowest cost, most flexible way to connect virtual servers to your networks.
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HP iLO2 Advanced: Remote management just got easier!
Listen in and hear how HP has made the complex task of remote management even easier with this next generation of Lights Out technology.
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HP Insight Dynamics VSE
This software is the first integrated solution to visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual resources for HP BladeSystem, HP ProLiant and Integrity servers.
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IT Infrastructure

The new HP Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD)
The HP POD is part of a complete answer to your datacenter constraints, and allows you to define your datacenter strategy, not be defined by it.
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