What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

...ee? The acquisition of SonicWall gives Dell a powerful set of products and services to compete with Cisco, Juniper and HP, says Chris Preimesberger On March 14, 2012 by Chris Preimesberger eWEEK USA 2012. ...... course, Dell’s competitors in the IT products and services business are doing the same thing. EMC, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and IBM (well, not so much lately) have all gone through similar asset-collecting ... (Read Full Article)

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Iceland’s Thor Data Centre: In Pictures

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 17 2012) Geothermal

...f 150 million euros, and experience working with most of the major IT players, including Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, HP, Verisign and Cisco. Skyrr itself dates back more than 50 years to the first government data centre in Iceland. Advan... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

...rian Modoff, analyst with Deutsche Bank. The figure also represents growth off a very small base — Cisco still doesn’t crack the top five server vendors by unit market share. Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers By Barb Darrow Jan. 18, 2012, 5:00am PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Cisco Systems says it now has 10,000 Unified Computing Systems customers for it’s not quite three-year-old produc...... And, “because you ... (Read Full Article)

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Bits Blog: The Coming War for the Social Workplace

Explore Technology (Dec 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...ecutive of Salesforce, figures that orientation also gives him an edge over larger competitors like Oracle and SAP of Germany. Most big enterprise software, he notes, is for back office functions like finan......globally make up a $3.5 trillion annual business, are also jumping on the trend to social business. Cisco Systems, usually a maker of networking hardware and software, is investing heavily in collaborative tools, ... (Read Full Article)

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Extending the life of your data center

Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

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Michael Dell, end-to-end, PC to the Data Center

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 5 2011) Grid Computing , Servers

Michael Dell gave a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, and there is blog post summarizing his presentation. Michael emphasizes they go embra......ol, contribute to it or both. Where is the money savings? This is another problem I see with Cisco and VMware’s uber virtual data center solutions.  Where is the money savings? I asked RNAnetworks... (Read Full Article)

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Watch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers

Explore GigaOM (Sep 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...ed brands in the data center. It does so much, yet seems to lack the awareness of players like IBM, Cisco, Oracle, VMware, and EMC in their efforts to capture the minds of corporate buyers. It will be interest... (Read Full Article)

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The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

...ering was augmented by the acquisition of 3Com. Whether it can leverage this to compete on par with Cisco remains to be seen. o Oracle: Well known for software that powers the Internet, Oracle combined this with Sun Microsystems equipment. It is still missing the networking piece, so it coul... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

... ahead of IBM in this sector, including such longtime competitors as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Wyse, Oracle, and Cisco Systems. Oh, and don’t forget all those brazen newcomers that include Kaviza, nComputing, Wanova, eG Innova... (Read Full Article)

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Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.

Explore The New York Times (Nov 26 2010) Storage

... portfolio. HP already had the Procurve line of equipment but more will be required to compete with Cisco. January 2010 | Oracle/Sun acquisition approved The game is on. Oracle now has comprehensive server and storage product lines plus all of Sun’s software portfolio. August... (Read Full Article)

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HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 27 2010) Networking

...es from its six data centres highlights the disintegrating relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. HP's data centres are now 'Cisco Free' as Hewlett Packard continues to highlight the increasing bad blood between the two companies ......eplace Mark Hurd, who resigned under pressure in August and has since been hired as co-president at Oracle. Reports circulated earlier this month that HP was looking at internal candidates for Hurd’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Gets Cloud Religion

Explore The New York Times (Sep 21 2010) Cloud Computing

... IT Drilldowns on Virtualization, Mobile, SOA Visit Infoworld's Green Tech Center Network World's Cisco Subnet-The Independent Voice of Cisco Customers Fast-forward to Oracle OpenWorld this week and Oracle is now well and truly on the cloud bandwagon. You can hardly walk down a hallway at the Moscone Cen... (Read Full Article)

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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)

When networking king Cisco Systems officially entered the full-service data centre systems market on 16 March, 2009, with the launch o......it jumped into a pool of sharks named IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Plus, it took a major risk in opening a whole new field of business during the most dangerous ma... (Read Full Article)

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)

...o see a harsh business climate as enterprises adapt to the new fiscal realities, and while Dell and Cisco Systems may ride out the storm well, Oracle could see its hardware plans battered, according to a report by market research company TheInfoPro....... integration work already done. A low percentage of respondents said they planned to spend money on Cisco’s UCS this year, but the bundled data centre offering was ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM's reorg shows shape of IT to come

Explore Technology News (Jul 28 2010)

...at this higher level. But today, one finds virtually all of IBM's major competitors--for instance, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, Oracle, and VMware--all creating and exploiting systematic plays. They've even stolen the occasional march... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia's First Unified Computing Center

Explore MarketWatch.com (Jun 24 2010) Cloud Computing

...tion support. It will also feature technology from APC, CA, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, VMware and other partners. As the pioneering solution center in the region, the Cisco Center for Unified Computing will be a test bed for Cisco partners to simulate real-life scenarios in a heterogeneous hardware and software application envir......orage, Printers and Peripherals products. Ingram Micro can be found at www.ingrammicro.com.sg ... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...ter-company collaboration services, and that is why we got WebEx and now PostPath,” Charles Carmel, Cisco's vice president of corporate development, told Red Herring in August 2008. Citrix - Citrix Cloud C......private beta, aimed at providing every user with a “Virtual Private Cloud” within the public cloud. Oracle - The world's largest business software company Parallels - "Cloud storage" involves clustering ten... (Read Full Article)

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How Much Integration Is Too Much in the Cloud?

Explore GigaOM (May 30 2010)

...ast year, you might be under the impression that integrated stacks are the future of IT. After all, Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems was all about integration and HP and Cisco appear locked in a death match over which one of them is best equipped to handle your server, stora... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing

Explore AJAX & RIA Journal (May 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...ter-company collaboration services, and that is why we got WebEx and now PostPath,” Charles Carmel, Cisco's vice president of corporate development, told Red Herring in August 2008. Citrix - Citrix Cloud C......private beta, aimed at providing every user with a “Virtual Private Cloud” within the public cloud. Oracle - The world's largest business software company Parallels - "Cloud storage" involves clustering ten... (Read Full Article)

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5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players

Explore Earth2Tech (Apr 28 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...the past year, and many industry observers are anticipating more aggressive moves from the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. In SAP’s case, the German software giant bought carbon accounting startup Clear......e emerging field is incorporating data from building automation and energy metering systems such as Cisco’s Building Mediator, IBM Maximo and HP facility management systems, he said. Enterprise software gi... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

Explore Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers

...enters. Members of the consortium include technology giants such as AMD, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle, as well as other critical companies such as Cisco, Google, and Texas Instruments. According to its website (http://www.thegreengrid.org/), The Green ... (Read Full Article)

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OpenGate Targets Hot Spots for Switches

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 9 2010) Networking

...hAir is avilable in either 1U or 2U configurations. The 1U model was developed in coordination with Oracle, and has reduced the temperature of their rear rack-mounted Cisco 4948 switch temperatures between 18-20 degrees C. OpenGate says another unnamed “prominent IT equip... (Read Full Article)

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How Much Are Cloud Providers Making?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing

... customers to deliver software and hardware as a service through server and storage virtualization. Cisco Systems As well as provide networking infrastructure equipment to service providers to build out cloud plat......l as provide networking infrastructure equipment to service providers to build out cloud platforms, Cisco (CSCO) is also a SaaS provider through its $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx in March 2007, and its... (Read Full Article)

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HP Gets EC Approval For 3Com Purchase

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 16 2010) Networking

... to help it build out its ProCurve networking business as it looks to increase its competition with Cisco Systems and to grow its capabilities in the increasingly competitive push for converged data centere soluti......pability also will give HP a stronger play in the converged data centre space, where rivals such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Dell all are looking for ways to give customers more tightly integrated solutions that ... (Read Full Article)

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