Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

... melded compute and networking in a single box, tightly integrated with storage. Since then HP and Oracle entered the fray. These converged infrastructure servers are pricier than the commodity boxes that ......a offers software that brings some of those converged data center benefits to existing servers from Dell, HP, Fujitsu and NEC. Egenera said revenue from that PAN Manager software rose a whopping 400 perce... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

Oracle is finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the compan......tems in January 2010 that the company would cede the low-end X86 server space to competitors like Dell, while it focused on high-margin, specialized machines. It was unclear from the get-go whether sal... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...e still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of R...... value end users." End users here, of course, being Red Hat's customers. Consider it the inverse of Oracle's engineered systems, where Oracle claims to save customers money by building proprietary systems top to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

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

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

...percent focused on maintenance. What drove the shift? Standardized business processes that leverage Oracle on Dell, plus a service oriented architecture (SOA), Sarkis claimed. Servers are mentioned of course. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs

Explore CIO.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ty of established data center designs and economics. The first article is a Bloomberg piece titled "Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain." Bloomberg notes that large cloud providers a......to say goodbye to missed SLAs? VMware can help you virtualize mission-critical applications such as Oracle, MS Exchange and SharePoint to achieve dramatic improvements in uptime, performance and responsiven... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Brocade

Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...igurations of datacenter hardware, the analyst said, adding that "preconfigured roll-on boxes" from Oracle and SAP, for instance, may take up less space but these devices consume "a lot more power". He adde......toward "micro-focusing on component savings". Citing a survey jointly conducted by IBM, Samsung and Dell, the Samsung executive then pointed out that one of the datacenter management "pinch points" revolv... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

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

...ding specific equipment solutions for cloud computing based on what it calls “Vblock” technology. o Dell: By bundling Force10 switching with Dell’s compute and storage (including Compellent), Dell completes its converged data center offering. While this may be a good long-term strategy, it may......cquisition of 3Com. Whether it can leverage this to compete on par with Cisco remains to be seen. o Oracle: Well known for software that ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...y see little, if any, difference in either the energy efficiency or density offered by systems from Dell, HP, IBM or Oracle. "Every vendor is telling a story that emphasizes how many of their systems you can cram into a sma... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

Ibm, Hp & Dell Steal Ahead In Server Revenues: IDC

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Mar 2 2011) Servers

... for the fourth quarter. HP, IBM’s top rival in servers, had 29.9 percent market share, followed by Dell at 12.6 percent. Rounding out the top five were Oracle – with the server business acquired via the Sun Microsystems purchase – and Fujitsu, which both saw... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Gartner

Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.

Explore The New York Times (Nov 26 2010) Storage

...ounces UCS Cisco enters the server market essentially declaring war with server giants HP, IBM, and Dell. April 2009 | Oracle announces Sun acquisition After IBM’s initial dialog with Sun, Oracle enters the hardware market. April 2009 | Dave Donatelli, long time senior EMC executive joins HP To... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

Dell to Acquire Cloud Integration Solution Boomi

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 2 2010) Cloud Computing

...loud computing. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The move comes just a month after Dell completed its acquisition of cloud storage provider 3PAR for $2.35 billion. Powered by AtomSphere ......tomSphere as the leading integration solution in the SaaS and cloud computing industry." PREVIOUS: Oracle to Pay $1B for E-commerce Firm ATG | NEXT: Interxion Partners with Telx to Establish Transatlantic... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Dell

HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

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

...ove brought Cisco into more direct competition with HP, as well as other vendors, including IBM and Dell. HP officials answered later in the year when they announced their interest in buying 3Com. With th......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 replac... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Signs of Strength from Server Sector

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 26 2010)

... server revenue.  In the list of the top five server vendors only second place IBM and fourth place Oracle were absent from reporting revenue increases for the second quarter. Dell’s financial results support Gartner data Last week Dell reported strong second quarer 2010 results, driven by a significant increase in commercial customer... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   IBM

Why the Bidding War for 3Par is Great News for Green IT

Explore EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 24 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

Wall Street is buzzing this week over the bidding war that has erupted between Dell and HP for 3Par. A brief recap: 3Par has been on the market for a couple of months with an auction.......t. So where does it go from here? Analysts believe that the bidding war may escalate, especially if Oracle, also flush with cash, decides to step in as a potential buyer as well. 3Par ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Dell

One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

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

...launch of its Unified Computing System, 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)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Intel

Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...oPro, spending on servers will continue to be slow in 2010 * By: Jeffrey Burt * August 3, 2010 Tags:Dell, IBM, oracle, Sun Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Intel

IBM's reorg shows shape of IT to come

Explore Technology News (Jul 28 2010)

...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)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

From the data center trenches: IT manager talks shop

Explore Data Center (Jun 29 2010) Carbon Footprint

...xpect companies to contract large consulting services from companies such as Perot Systems (now Dell), EDS (now Hewlett-Packard) or IBM in the future? John Parker: Consulting was a lot of fun, I love ......naged services. ESRI has been a Sun Microsystems customer in the past. What are your plans now that Oracle owns Sun? J.P.: We're transitioning away from Unix. I won't say we're going off ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

VMware Unit Buys Java Cache Company

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 7 2010)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

Doubling Down on Scale-out Storage

Explore GigaOM (Apr 10 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

...es before. In 2007 the company acquired Polyserve, a clustered file system that had integrated with Oracle solutions, and then in 2009 bought IBRIX, a scale-out storage provider with solid penetration in th......h was once adopted by customers on a range of hardware platforms including a long relationship with Dell before the HP acquisition, now seems to be tightly packed with HP hardware. And EMC’s offerings do ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Dell

HP Gets EC Approval For 3Com Purchase

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

...o 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 combine server, s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

APC plans new push into containerized data centers

Explore IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

...e electrical side." Meanwhile other vendors have jumped in, including Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle), Rackable Systems (now called SGI), IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Sales are still relatively low, however -- 60 containerized data centers were sold worldwide last ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

With Sun, Oracle Says It Has All the Pieces

Explore The New York Times (Jan 26 2010)

...logy heavyweights all jostling for the same corporate customers. The $7.4 billion deal, which gives Oracle a vast hardware business for the first time, pits it against Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M., Dell and Cisco Systems, all of whom have made a flurry of acquisitions and alliances. Many of these move... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

IBM Sweetens Migration Path For Sun Customers

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2010)

...erformance at better prices on HP’s Itanium-based Integrity systems or on the x86 ProLiant servers. Oracle also will become a challenger to Cisco Systems, IBM, HP and Dell in the burgeoning converged data centre space. Oracle’s plan is to cede the high-volume, low-margin sector of the service market to the likes of HP and Dell, and focus more on the high-end space, which has fewer sales but higher ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco