HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project

Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by esaym on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:31PM (#10441790)

The microservers weren't too bad: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/proliant-servers/product-d...

For those of us that just have to have a web server in our bedrooms.

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by stordoff on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:08PM (#10441891)

I'll second that. I used one for about three years with Windows Server 2008, primarily as a NAS and for playing around with Windows domains. Cost me less than £100 (plus HDDs), held five 1.5TB hard drives, ran near silent, and was reliable.

I've also got a HP PSC1215 scanner/printer that is over a decade old and still works fine. I can't really speak to the overall quality of HP gear, but the few pieces of hardware I've used from them have been pretty solid.

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by iheartmemcache on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:11PM (#10441900)

Their storage is a good value for the money too. If you want to talk enterprise, the NonStop Integrity platform is as reliable as z/OS. That's real niche though. That's about it though. Their enterprise software is as bad as CA. They aren't really innovating anything interesting.

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by therealmarv on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:09PM (#10441719)

HP Deskjet Printers. They were good at the time and for a long time the best... good ol times :D

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by avn2109 on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:43PM (#10441824)

Do you count Agilent products as HP? Probably not, but if so they make a bunch of pretty solid instruments. And arguably the name "HP" should be associated with the entity that today we call "Agilent."

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by thrownaway2424 on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:22PM (#10441920)

Did you mean Agilent as in Agilent, or Keysight, or Avago?

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by krylon on Saturday October 24, 2015 @02:28AM (#10442685)

The ProLiant micro servers are pretty good for a home / small office environment.

Also, we have three managed 24/48 port switches at work that have not given me any grief.

(We also have an EliteBook 17" notebook that for its price of ~ €1700 should totally kick ass but instead seems to be the slowest notebook in the entire company. All in all, HP notebooks seem to be more trouble than their counterparts from, say, Lenovo or Dell.)

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by mattbee on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:31PM (#10441788)

Their server hardware has always been excellent. I'd pay extra if they didn't take 3 minutes from power on to booting :)

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by hga on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:11PM (#10441897)

There LTO tape drives, or at least I'm very happy with my LTO-4 one.

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by actaeon169 on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:15PM (#10441738)

The HP-28S

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Re:HP Winds Down Cloud Computing Project by criddell on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:54PM (#10441857)

I bought a 28S in 1989 or 1990 and it's still working. Last year I saw the HP 35s and bought one. I'm still using the 28S even though my battery door is broken as is some of the plastic around the battery door.

The 35s is soooo close to being a great device, but a few things drive me nuts.

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