dataplex have been following the whole concept and marketing momentum around Converged Infrastructure within HP. When I first started looking at this initiative, like many people I was waiting to see how it would come out. We have been very pleased with what I have seen and in fact believe that HP Integrity servers operating in a converged infrastructure will have enhanced performance.
Most customers don't really care what hardware they're running the application on as long it runs well. But they really care if they see response times creep up, lagging processing time, or any of the other myriad of problems that occur if a system infrastructure is operating sub-optimally. Poor performance is NOT due to the fact that your server runs a benchmark 10% lower than someone elses - it will typically be because there are more deep set issues - lack of I/O, not enough memory, poor virtualisation and workload management implementation, application-to-server sizing problems. With real workloads in real-world situations, HP Integrity is a good platform. Operating in a Converged Infrastructure with external bottlenecks removed, it will be a great platform.
One of the really fascinating things is how server performance would be impacted by a Converged Infrastructure. With all resources balanced, all bottlenecks should be removed or more limited, optimizing effective performance.