Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overview, but... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...energy and engage their communities. Other companies assessed in the report were Rackspace, Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered by renewab... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

... and carbon management associated with data consumption." The other companies assessed were Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. A thought. Many years ago, after decades of dedicated st... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...ata? and expands coverage from 10 tech firms to 14. The four new additions, besides Salesforce, are Dell, Oracle and Rackspace Hosting. Stay Up-to-Date On Environmental Management, Energy & Sustainability News wi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

...n/renewable energy sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal. Based on those criteria, Yahoo, Dell, Google and Facebook rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowes......ok rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowest: Salesforce.com, Oracle and IBM. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple are in the next-lowest group, according to Greenpeace's clean-... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

... you’re one of those seven or eight, you’re obviously high on the charts in your sector. Of 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)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Oracle   Cisco

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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Oracle

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)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Oracle   Cisco

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