brittjohnston - Slashdot User

Comment Any feedback on the actual appliances? (Score 1) 112

by brittjohnston on Sunday January 23, 2011 @04:48AM (#34971410) Attached to: MicroHP — the New IT Giant?

As someone from Microsoft who works closely with a team at HP building the actual appliances mentioned discussed here, I'd love more feedback on the HP Business Decision Appliance (HPBDA) mentioned here. The appliance is designed to support 80-150 concurrent PowerPivot users (doing what we call Self-Service BI) in a 1U server (24 cores/96GB memory) with all the storage required inside the appliance. The appliance is configured to provide backup storage initially. The HPBDA from cardboard box to production takes less than an hour to configure and the only pre-req is existing AD infrastructure.

Here are product details to learn more and an unboxing video which can help understand what we're talking about.

Considering it can take months to design and build one of these yourself starting from scratch (choosing approach/software/hardware/tuning/etc) we're hoping this enables many of you to deliver a very cool capability called PowerPivot to your own organizations with minimal effort because of this.

Look forward to hearing what everyone thinks.

Britt...

MicroHP — the New IT Giant? 112

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 22, 2011 @05:23PM from the like-peanut-butter-and-shards-of-glass dept.

storagedude writes "Although it may have gone unnoticed by most IT industry watchers, this week's announcement from Microsoft and HP that the two have combined on integrated appliances for corporate business intelligence and email could be the start of a closer relationship between the two IT giants as they seek to counteract the growing hardware and software dominance of IBM and Oracle. From the article: 'Combine Microsoft and HP — call it MicroHP — and what do you have? A full Windows-plus-Linux scale-out hardware and software lineup, with an exceptionally strong position both in SaaS/public cloud and data centers, and a huge presence on the business desktop. This would allow such a combined entity to produce well-tuned appliances for such hot areas as BI/analytics — as Microsoft and HP have just done.'"

Comment Go Deep! (Score 2) 509

by brittjohnston on Thursday December 28, 2000 @12:48PM (#1420146) Attached to: CS vs CIS

Don't make the mistake of thinking knowing a little HTML and how to use a database is all you ever need to know. In fact since the web really took off I've seen decline in talented engineers who understand all there is to know about building complex software. Many are distracted by the short term demand for HTML-based websites and never get to the more complex aspects of software.

Keep in mind not all software programs are math based, some are engineering based and focus on broader engineering knowledge rather than pure math that some prefer. If you really want to have fun, major in software and minor in hardware then you will know exactly how these amazing machines work down to the logic gates inside the chips - some schools call this a computer engineering degree.

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