HPE History
Who moved to 'City Place' first, HP Inc. or HPE?
HP Inc
This server component is the "brain," responsible for executing instructions and handling data processing.
CPU (central processing unit)
Where did Aaron Taylor go to college?
Alabama
Before 'Alletra', what was HPE's storage line called?
Nimble
This term describes software that's freely available to use, modify, and share.
Open-Source
Where was Hewlett-Packard founded
A garage in Palo Alto, CA
Name any 1u and 2u server with an AMD CPU
1u:DL325, DL365
2u:DL145, DL345, DL385
How many sales teams are there currently on the floor? (yes, including storage)
Total: 8
What are the 3 main architectures for organizing and retrieving data in computer systems
Block, File, Object
Difference between scale-up and scale-out
scale-up is getting bigger/better servers, scale-out is getting more servers
What year did Hewlett-Packard officially split into two separate, publicly traded companies: HPE and HP Inc.
(bonus 100 points if you know the exact day)
Nov 1st, 2015
True/False: COM can be used on Gen10 or newer HPE microservers.
True
What are the 3 main categories of business size that we work with?
SMB, Commercial, Enterprise
HPE’s modern storage portfolio runs on this unified cloud operating experience, designed to simplify data management from edge to cloud.
HPE GreenLake for Storage
What does GUI stand for
Graphical User Interface
In what year did HP purchase Compaq?
2002
This device stores your operating system, files, and applications using magnetic disks.
HDD (Hard Drive Disk)
Where do all North America DSR's work?
Spring and Plano, TX
What is our product line for disaster recovery?
Zerto
This refers to the number of instruction cycles a CPU can execute per second.
Clock Speed
HPE’s supercomputing capabilities were significantly boosted in 2019 with the $1.3 billion acquisition of this company.
Cray
In this compute model, the operating system runs directly on hardware without a hypervisor layer.
What is bare-metal?
Who is the new NA Compute Digital Sales Director?
Michael Meek
What is HPE's Backup and Recovery solution?
StoreOnce
Storage protocol used for file sharing.
What is NFS or SMB?