HP gooses virtualization for servers
System management software tuned for server platforms and created by the server's maker has been a key account control factor in the server market for more than a decade. While nothing beats the old-fashioned legacy application lock-in of mainframes and proprietary systems of days gone by, the hassle of using multiple and not …
Tukwila chip will be six months later at least
Tukwila chip will be six months later at least because they could not compete with Nehalem chips. DDR3 will now be added which requires the pins to be changed.
Too bad VMWare does not run on Itanium. HP actually uses charts which says "Integrity Virtual Machine - The "VMWare" for Itanium" what a joke. IVM is a modified HP-UX. The overhead is unreal.
Tukwila
How much further will they push out Tukwila. How late is it already!?!? How long will HP continue to subsidize this joke of a chip? It's fairly obvious that Intel is just stringing everyone along until they can convert many of the enterprise features to X64 and kill Itanium. Where will that leave HP's enterprise customers? What a joke!
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