Blades vs. standard racked servers for virtualization

Explore zdnet.com (May 23 2012) Construction , Servers

... a single vendor when you buy a chassis or enclosure. You can’t buy a Sun blade, an HP blade and an IBM blade and expect to plug them into the same enclosure. Hopefully, some third-party company will see......for your applications, systems or data centers. *Granted, most of us could use it. Myself included. Forrester Research: Blades PaperHow Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility. This paper ... (Hewlett-P... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute - Yes it really is radical! by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 6 2012)

...acebook, Google and Zynga have been going direct to the people that make equipment for the likes of IBM, HP and Dell. . What Open Compute does, according to GigaOM, is to bring those back-room deals into......ase. Admittedly, this is on a vague time scale labelled “today” and “tomorrow”. And Facebook is not Forrester, so we should be careful with its predictions. But this takes the move to cloud, and ... (Read Full Article)

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What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

...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 binges. In fact, EMC may ......enter networking security, or are there still some holes to fill? “There are always holes to fill,” Forrester Research principal analyst of security and risk management John Kindervag told eWEEK. “This gives them a ver... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...s "the big money." An estimated $26 billion a year is spent on the public cloud today, according to Forrester Research. Mullaney thinks the market would expand significantly if businesses, which spend $2 trillion a yea...... what happened to the price of computer hardware in the personal-computing boom of the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the ... (Read Full Article)

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GreenWise poll: will 2011 be significant for green business?

Explore Green Wise (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

... no doubt rise considerably. Energy efficiency & smart technology Jon Bentley, Smarter Energy lead, IBM Global Business Services UK&I: I'm optimistic and believe this year will be significant for the fut......ronment in terms of carbon emissions. The forecast for software spending looks stable. According to Forrester's 2010 To 2012 Global Tech Industry Outlook, software will lead hardware as the largest category of... (Read Full Article)

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How Tech Will Be Critical to Corporate Sustainability in 2011

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 12 2011) Monitoring , Emissions

...lity scene: 1. IT-for-green services are growing at fastest pace among sustainability services. In Forrester's segmentation of the sustainability services market, we identified IT-for-green services as the to......gin (especially with its pending acquisition of Siemens Information Services), Capgemini, Deloitte, IBM, and PricewaterhouseCoopers emerging as most prominent players in this market segment. Figure 1 2. ... (Read Full Article)

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JouleX Updates Software For Emerging ECEM Market

Explore Network Computing (Jan 11 2011) Monitoring , Servers

...te control of those systems. The software product joins a growing market for what the research firm Forrester describes as Enterprise Carbon and Energy Management (ECEM) software. JEM 2.5 is a network-based......ilization but high energy consumption. An IT manager can compare the energy efficiency of HP versus IBM servers or calculate what energy efficiency can be gained by upgrading to new servers. (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

... rise of giants like Intel and Microsoft but also the demise of several mainframe vendors not named IBM, says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group. But predicting which new company will disti...... on cloud-based services. Security -- no surprise -- is still top of mind, with IT pros surveyed by Forrester calling it the biggest concern preventing them from adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS). Most sta... (Read Full Article)

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HP-SAP merger talk considered far-fetched

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 5 2010)

...ual maintenance revenue. But it would in turn harm HP's application services organization, said Forrester Research analyst Paul Hamerman. "It would taint the advice they give customers. They have to be vendor-agnos...... testing products, but "there isn't a sense of a unified software strategy like you have with, say, IBM," he said. To this end, Apotheker faces a broader challenge, according to Coté. While HP generates ... (Read Full Article)

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The evolution of Green IT: Key takeaways from Interop

Explore ZDNet Technology News (Apr 28 2010)

...ight initiate organization-wide green thinking, IT plays a critical role in planning and execution. Forrester finds that in 43% of organizations globally, “IT has a central role in both planning... The evoluti......energy costs by $25-$75 per PC per year (ENERGY STAR). * Services: Emerson, Schneider Electric, HP, IBM, Dell, and others offer DC energy audits — critical to spending time and money wisely. * Process: B... (Read Full Article)

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Is Your Company Ready for a Green IT Maturity Test?

Explore Reuters.com (Oct 28 2009) Construction , Monitoring , Power and Cooling

...green IT hitting the mainstream ("Green IT Hits the Mainstream in Data Centers"), a new report from Forrester Research just crossed my desk that aims to address all those companies who haven't gotten up to speed on gre......een IT coverage to get a sense of what companies are doing -- even in the last few weeks we've seen IBM apply green IT to fleets, Microsoft's new "plug ... (Read Full Article)

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Vendors pitch stripped-down servers to giant Web properties

Explore Welcome to Techworld (Jun 10 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ment software. But HP is not the pioneer in this scale-out server market, with companies such as IBM, Sun, Dell, Super Micro, and Rackable offering products of their own. Each vendor has its own ap...... large homogenous application scale-out deployments, an application that spans 1,000 servers," says Forrester Research analyst James Staten. "These are typically things delivered by Web services, or cloud services as t... (Read Full Article)

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