Itanium, HP-Intel Failed Heir to x86
By 2014, x86 was becoming Intel's top end processor, all but replacing Itanium in capability
IBM Slumps, Cisco Gains In 2014 Server Sales InformationWeek-Mar 3, 2015
HP's biggest declines were in the RISC/Itanium market, with unit shipments off 18.8% and revenues down 21.8% HP remains the server market leader, but it suffered a 9.4% decline in unit shipments for the year. Revenues held steady at $13.3 billion, up 0.4%. HP's biggest declines were in the RISC/Itanium market, with unit shipments off 18.8% and revenues down 21.8%.
"The growth of integrated systems, while still relatively small as an overall percentage of the hardware infrastructure market, provided some growth contribution to the x86 server space for the year," wrote Jeffrey Hewitt, a research VP, in the Gartner report. Hewitt described 2014 as a "moderate growth year" with overall increases of 2.2% in shipments and 0.8% in revenue.
"x86 servers continue to be the predominant platform used for large-scale data center buildouts across the globe," Hewitt wrote.
That’s gotta hurt: HP to offer Xeon-based Superdome servers Barb Darrow Dec. 2, 2014 - 7:45 AM PDT Hewlett-Packard is bending on its pro-Itanium stance and will offer Intel Xeon-based versions of its high-end Superdome and NonStop servers, according to the Wall Street Journal and other reports. These servers are used by banks and other financial institutions and until now ran on more specialized Itanium processors developed by HP and Intel. The Itanium chips are, purportedly, very powerful but saw limited traction in the market. Oracle cited the slow growth when, two years ago, it said it would stop supporting Itanium with its database and other software. That caused a major kerfuffle between HP and Oracle, one of its erstwhile allies. In any case, HP positioned this as a move to retain key large customers as it breaks itself into two entities: HP Enterprise — for cloud, software, storage, etc. — and HP Inc., for printers and PCs. Antonio Neri, SVP of HP’s enterprise group, told the WSJ that the company will continue to develop Itanium-based machines, but that Intel’s Xeon technology is more mainstream and thus appeals to many customers
Itanium is still important – we have a roadmap that goes out to 2022 (which could possibly expand into 2025) and we will deliver what these customers need to achieve business results. The new servers announced today deliver on HP’s Project Odyssey (announced in 2011), which included bringing x86 into mission critical.
Still others say the writing is on the wall.
“This signifies the end of any big investments in Itanium,” Patrick Moorhead, founder of analyst firm Moor Insights & Strategy, told me.
December 2014 Death knell - HP is replacing non-stop Itanium with X86
HP's Itanium Odyssey Ends With Superdome X Xeon Iron EnterpriseTech-Dec 2, 2014The prior generations of Superdome and NonStop machines were based on Itanium processors from Intel, and the launch of these new ...
In addition to the new Superdome X machine, HP is also previewing its Xeon-based Integrity NonStop X server line.
The NonStop systems are fault tolerant clusters that are currently based on Intel’s “Poulson” Itanium 9500 processors and that use a proprietary interconnect called ServerNet to lash machines together to run the NonStop kernel and a distributed database. NonStop machines are the backbone of many financial exchanges and banking networks where downtime is not permissible. Because most of the applications running on the NonStop platform are homegrown – unlike the case for the HP-UX variant of Unix – HP can port the NonStop environment to the X86 architecture and customers can recompile their own code, and given the price/performance benefits of shifting from Itanium to Xeon, many must be so inclined or HP would not have bothered.
Beginning in March next year, HP will be shipping a new lineup of NonStop X systems. Kyle says that the new NonStop X machines will replace Itaniums with the a future “Ivy Bridge” Xeon E5 processor and that it has ported the ServerNet fault tolerant clustering to run atop of an InfiniBand network running at 40 Gb/sec speeds (that’s called FDR in the InfiniBand lingo). The NonStop X will use the BladeSystem c7000 chassis and ProLiant BL460-class blade servers. HP tells EnterpriseTech that it will be able to put 64 cores and 3 TB of memory inside of a single NonStop node, which will be comprised of multiple motherboards.
Intel finally releases 9500-series Itanium, announces plans ... ExtremeTech.com Nov 12, 2012 - Intel has released its latest big-number crunching Itanium processors with the 9500 Poulson series as well as detailed its Modular ...
HP Adopts Intel Itanium 9500 and Updates HP-UX By Sean Michael Kerner Posted November 8, 2012 Intel is launching a new line of Itanium processors today that deliver increased performance. The new Intel Itanium 9500 processor series offers the promise of up to 21 percent less energy usage while delivering up to three times the performance of previous Itanium processors. he Itanium 9500 has been on Intel's roadmap since at least 2007. The Itanium 9500 is also at the core of a Mission Critical server refresh from HP that includes new Integrity and Superdome hardware. The HP update includes a new version of the company's HP-UX Unix operating system as well.
The Itanium 9500 series is one of the most robust processors that Intel has ever built with 3.1 billion transistors. The 9500 series delivers up to 54 MB of memory on the chip and up to 2 TB of DIMM memory.
HP-UX HP will be enabling the new Itanium processors with an update to the HP-UX Unix 11i v3 operating system. In addition to the new hardware support, the HP-UX update also provides new capabilities.
Intel's new Xeon E7 marks the end of Itanium There's really no reason to buy an Itanium any more now that the top of the Xeon line is pretty much the same chip. ITworld.com-Feb 20, 2014 One of the surest signs that an Intel product is doomed is its omission from the Intel Developer's Forum, and Intel has not talked about Itanium at ...One of the surest signs that an Intel product is doomed is its omission from the Intel Developer's Forum, and Intel has not talked about Itanium at that show for at least three or four years now. So while they will deny it, Intel has doomed the Itanium by omission.But while Itanium slowly slips below the waves, what would be its replacement? The answer to that came Tuesday when Intel introduced the Xeon E7 V2 processor, codenamed "Ivy Town." The 15-core processor is built for huge data sets and massive memory bandwidth, the one advantage that still remained for mainframes and high-end RISC servers.
last few generations, E7-based servers have closed the performance and reliability gap with Itanium, IBM's Power servers and mainframes, and what's left of Oracle's UltraSparc business. The fact is these servers have the uptime promise for mission critical systems of big iron, but they also offer the openness of an x86 platform... When you buy IBM Power servers, you do get a high-performance server with that coveted five 9s of uptime, no question. But you'll also get it from HP's ProLiants, Oracle Sun Servers and SGI Altix servers, and soon the eX5 servers from Lenovo now that IBM had ditched them, so you are free to shop around. That gives you some price competition and flexibility in buying....So, with the E7 V2, x86 may finally break down the top tier of computing and move into space previously held by RISC systems. I never thought I would see it happen.
HP to replace Itanium with x86 in its NonStop server ITworld.com-Nov 5, 2013 Hewlett-Packard has long been the last holdout on the Itanium processor, since Itanium has a lot of HP's PA-RISC processor as its pedigree
2011: Oracle-HP court battle over Itanium delayed indefinitely Stephen Lawson @sdlawsonmedia Apr 10, 2013 2:50 PMe-mailprint Oracle and Hewlett-Packard’s ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there’s no telling how long it will last. HP sued Oracle in 2011 after the database company announced it would stop porting software to Itanium, the chip architecture at the heart of HP’s high-end “business critical” servers. HP won in the first phase of the case last year, when Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara Superior Court ruled that Oracle had to resume porting.
By 2014, x86 was becoming Intel's top end processor, all but replacing Itanium in capability
IBM Slumps, Cisco Gains In 2014 Server Sales InformationWeek-Mar 3, 2015
HP's biggest declines were in the RISC/Itanium market, with unit shipments off 18.8% and revenues down 21.8% HP remains the server market leader, but it suffered a 9.4% decline in unit shipments for the year. Revenues held steady at $13.3 billion, up 0.4%. HP's biggest declines were in the RISC/Itanium market, with unit shipments off 18.8% and revenues down 21.8%.
"The growth of integrated systems, while still relatively small as an overall percentage of the hardware infrastructure market, provided some growth contribution to the x86 server space for the year," wrote Jeffrey Hewitt, a research VP, in the Gartner report. Hewitt described 2014 as a "moderate growth year" with overall increases of 2.2% in shipments and 0.8% in revenue.
"x86 servers continue to be the predominant platform used for large-scale data center buildouts across the globe," Hewitt wrote.
That’s gotta hurt: HP to offer Xeon-based Superdome servers Barb Darrow Dec. 2, 2014 - 7:45 AM PDT Hewlett-Packard is bending on its pro-Itanium stance and will offer Intel Xeon-based versions of its high-end Superdome and NonStop servers, according to the Wall Street Journal and other reports. These servers are used by banks and other financial institutions and until now ran on more specialized Itanium processors developed by HP and Intel. The Itanium chips are, purportedly, very powerful but saw limited traction in the market. Oracle cited the slow growth when, two years ago, it said it would stop supporting Itanium with its database and other software. That caused a major kerfuffle between HP and Oracle, one of its erstwhile allies. In any case, HP positioned this as a move to retain key large customers as it breaks itself into two entities: HP Enterprise — for cloud, software, storage, etc. — and HP Inc., for printers and PCs. Antonio Neri, SVP of HP’s enterprise group, told the WSJ that the company will continue to develop Itanium-based machines, but that Intel’s Xeon technology is more mainstream and thus appeals to many customers
Itanium is still important – we have a roadmap that goes out to 2022 (which could possibly expand into 2025) and we will deliver what these customers need to achieve business results. The new servers announced today deliver on HP’s Project Odyssey (announced in 2011), which included bringing x86 into mission critical.
Still others say the writing is on the wall.
“This signifies the end of any big investments in Itanium,” Patrick Moorhead, founder of analyst firm Moor Insights & Strategy, told me.
December 2014 Death knell - HP is replacing non-stop Itanium with X86
HP's Itanium Odyssey Ends With Superdome X Xeon Iron EnterpriseTech-Dec 2, 2014The prior generations of Superdome and NonStop machines were based on Itanium processors from Intel, and the launch of these new ...
In addition to the new Superdome X machine, HP is also previewing its Xeon-based Integrity NonStop X server line.
The NonStop systems are fault tolerant clusters that are currently based on Intel’s “Poulson” Itanium 9500 processors and that use a proprietary interconnect called ServerNet to lash machines together to run the NonStop kernel and a distributed database. NonStop machines are the backbone of many financial exchanges and banking networks where downtime is not permissible. Because most of the applications running on the NonStop platform are homegrown – unlike the case for the HP-UX variant of Unix – HP can port the NonStop environment to the X86 architecture and customers can recompile their own code, and given the price/performance benefits of shifting from Itanium to Xeon, many must be so inclined or HP would not have bothered.
Beginning in March next year, HP will be shipping a new lineup of NonStop X systems. Kyle says that the new NonStop X machines will replace Itaniums with the a future “Ivy Bridge” Xeon E5 processor and that it has ported the ServerNet fault tolerant clustering to run atop of an InfiniBand network running at 40 Gb/sec speeds (that’s called FDR in the InfiniBand lingo). The NonStop X will use the BladeSystem c7000 chassis and ProLiant BL460-class blade servers. HP tells EnterpriseTech that it will be able to put 64 cores and 3 TB of memory inside of a single NonStop node, which will be comprised of multiple motherboards.
Intel finally releases 9500-series Itanium, announces plans ... ExtremeTech.com Nov 12, 2012 - Intel has released its latest big-number crunching Itanium processors with the 9500 Poulson series as well as detailed its Modular ...
HP Adopts Intel Itanium 9500 and Updates HP-UX By Sean Michael Kerner Posted November 8, 2012 Intel is launching a new line of Itanium processors today that deliver increased performance. The new Intel Itanium 9500 processor series offers the promise of up to 21 percent less energy usage while delivering up to three times the performance of previous Itanium processors. he Itanium 9500 has been on Intel's roadmap since at least 2007. The Itanium 9500 is also at the core of a Mission Critical server refresh from HP that includes new Integrity and Superdome hardware. The HP update includes a new version of the company's HP-UX Unix operating system as well.
The Itanium 9500 series is one of the most robust processors that Intel has ever built with 3.1 billion transistors. The 9500 series delivers up to 54 MB of memory on the chip and up to 2 TB of DIMM memory.
HP-UX HP will be enabling the new Itanium processors with an update to the HP-UX Unix 11i v3 operating system. In addition to the new hardware support, the HP-UX update also provides new capabilities.
Intel's new Xeon E7 marks the end of Itanium There's really no reason to buy an Itanium any more now that the top of the Xeon line is pretty much the same chip. ITworld.com-Feb 20, 2014 One of the surest signs that an Intel product is doomed is its omission from the Intel Developer's Forum, and Intel has not talked about Itanium at ...One of the surest signs that an Intel product is doomed is its omission from the Intel Developer's Forum, and Intel has not talked about Itanium at that show for at least three or four years now. So while they will deny it, Intel has doomed the Itanium by omission.But while Itanium slowly slips below the waves, what would be its replacement? The answer to that came Tuesday when Intel introduced the Xeon E7 V2 processor, codenamed "Ivy Town." The 15-core processor is built for huge data sets and massive memory bandwidth, the one advantage that still remained for mainframes and high-end RISC servers.
last few generations, E7-based servers have closed the performance and reliability gap with Itanium, IBM's Power servers and mainframes, and what's left of Oracle's UltraSparc business. The fact is these servers have the uptime promise for mission critical systems of big iron, but they also offer the openness of an x86 platform... When you buy IBM Power servers, you do get a high-performance server with that coveted five 9s of uptime, no question. But you'll also get it from HP's ProLiants, Oracle Sun Servers and SGI Altix servers, and soon the eX5 servers from Lenovo now that IBM had ditched them, so you are free to shop around. That gives you some price competition and flexibility in buying....So, with the E7 V2, x86 may finally break down the top tier of computing and move into space previously held by RISC systems. I never thought I would see it happen.
HP to replace Itanium with x86 in its NonStop server ITworld.com-Nov 5, 2013 Hewlett-Packard has long been the last holdout on the Itanium processor, since Itanium has a lot of HP's PA-RISC processor as its pedigree
2011: Oracle-HP court battle over Itanium delayed indefinitely Stephen Lawson @sdlawsonmedia Apr 10, 2013 2:50 PMe-mailprint Oracle and Hewlett-Packard’s ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there’s no telling how long it will last. HP sued Oracle in 2011 after the database company announced it would stop porting software to Itanium, the chip architecture at the heart of HP’s high-end “business critical” servers. HP won in the first phase of the case last year, when Judge James Kleinberg of the Santa Clara Superior Court ruled that Oracle had to resume porting.
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