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Ever Wondered What A Terabyte of RAM Looked Like?

The cloud is finally coming at the place I work, and a couple of chassis’ worth of HP BL685c G5 goodness arrived in the lab on Friday so that we could finally get to work with some scalability and performance testing before finalising the specifics of VM sizing and the cost model. Except it wasn’t [...]

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HP "Virtualization Blade" – Marketing Bullshit 1 / Virtualisation Architects 0

I’ll start (as I often do with negatively titled posts) by saying that I love HP kit. No I’m not being sarcastic, back when I was a support guy I actually resigned from a place because they were going to switch their server vendor of choice away from HP. But for fucks sake, this BL495c [...]

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