Hewlett-Packard Monday distracted the press and the market from its executive suite dramas by putting out its promised Project Moonshot, the energy-sipping Atom-based microserver it expects to change its flagging server fortunes and be altogether disruptive.
\nThe widgetry, cast as a new class of server for social, mobile, cloud, Big Data and general scale-out use cases, is supposed to sell into the new hyper-scale data center, where HP claims the traditional 25-year-old server architecture doesn\u2019t suit and has, in fact, created a crisis of economics.
\n\u201cWith nearly 10 billion devices connected to the Internet and predictions for exponential growth, we\u2019ve reached a point where the space, power and cost demands of traditional technology are no longer sustainable,\u201d CEO Meg Whitman said. \u201cHP Moonshot marks the beginning of a new style of IT that will change the infrastructure economics and lay the foundation for the next 20 billion devices.\u201d <\/p>\n