Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...kers with foundation directors including Silicon Valley superstar Andy Bechtolsheim who co-founded Sun Microsystems and is now chief development officer of Arista Networks. Also on the board are Don Duet, head of gl......anics, a maker of rack-mount servers, is also aboard. When the effort launched in April Dell and Hewlett-Packard both showed off servers that incorporated some of the elements of Open Compute. Open Compute Found... (Read Full Article)

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Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 24 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...he first time in 11 quarters that revenues grew year over year. The top three Unix server vendors – Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Oracle – all saw revenue increases during the quarter, and Unix server revenue accounted ......are taking swings at each other. Oracle entered into the hardware business last year when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Through the deal, Oracle inherited Sun’s SPARC hardware business, bringing it into ... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...those of Gartner’s recent report that IBM was the world’s top server vendor in revenue, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Dell. In addition, IBM’s strong quarter was mirrored by the server market in general, which ID...... 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 revenue declines. HP Strongest In x86 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Gartner

New SPARC Cluster Is Oracle’s Challenge For HP And IBM

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

... formidable competitors – and this time it was not IBM. New SPARC Cluster Is Oracle’s Challenge For HP And IBM December 3, 2010 by Chris Preimesberger Larry Ellison Oracle Oracle’s Larry Ellison took se......ews campus, Ellison put up a series of slides showing how much faster he claims the latest Oracle Sun SPARC cluster is compared to IBM’s Power7 and Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium 2-based Superdome supercomputer clusters ... (Read Full Article)

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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

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

..., 2009, with the 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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From the data center trenches: IT manager talks shop

Explore Data Center (Jun 29 2010) Carbon Footprint

...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 challenges and it was very ......ices back from offshore, companies are going to need to help from managed services. ESRI has been a Sun Microsystems customer in the past. What are your plans now that Oracle owns Sun? J ... (Read Full Article)

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APC plans new push into containerized data centers

Explore IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

...0 kl 22:06) 5 reasons Silicon Valley might stumble coming out of recession (12.02.2010 kl 15:40) HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center (12.02.2010 kl 10:10) IBM explores cheaper solar cells ...... we'll have more modules on the 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 28 2010) Cloud Computing

...o be described as a full-service IT products and services provider, along the same lines as IBM and Hewlett-Packard. The $7.4 billion (£4.5bn) acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a nine-month-long legal headache for Oracle that ended earlier in the day, now qualifies Oracle to......s back to like World War II." On what he says to potential customers who are being wooed by IBM and HP, competitors that often ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

With Sun, Oracle Says It Has All the Pieces

Explore The New York Times (Jan 26 2010)

... Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Oracle's chief, Lawrence J. Ellison, left, hopes Scott G. McNealy, Sun's chairman, will stay. Related Times Topics: Oracle Corporation | Sun Microsystems Inc. The $7.4 billion deal, which gives Oracle a vast hardware business for the first time, pits...... $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 ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Sweetens Migration Path For Sun Customers

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

IBM is seeking to lure Sun Microsystems customers to its solutions, following the EU's permission for Oracle to acquire the server maker I......’s Migration Factory has been in place for four years, and officials are boasting that almost 2,200 Sun and Hewlett-Packard server and storage customers have moved onto IBM hardware. For 2009, almost 550 Sun customers and more than 230 from HP have migrated to IBM ... (Read Full Article)

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H.P.’s Bet on E.d.s. Seems a Winner

Explore The New York Times (Sep 22 2009)

After Hewlett-Packard bought the computer services company last August for $13.9 billion, it immediately began hacking th......ow when the good times returned. Historically, E.D.S. promoted computing gear from H.P. rivals like Sun Microsystems, Xerox and Cisco Systems. But Mr. Eazor says that more of H.P.’s own hardware is slated to go into ... (Read Full Article)

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Mainframes Continue to Play Key Role in Data Centers, CA Survey Finds

Explore eweek.com (Aug 21 2009) Servers

...st-competitive with distributed environments. IBM also rolled out new programs to lure customers of Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems to System z mainframes. (Read Full Article)

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Dell Plans to Move Deeper into Data Center

Explore eweek.com (Jul 14 2009) Cloud Computing

...s revenues. Dell also says the company won't offer an all-in-one data center solution, as Cisco and HP have. At the annual Dell analyst day, Dell executives say the company is looking to change its prod......with a solutions-based approach will put it in tighter competition with the likes of Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and—after its expected purchase of Sun Microsystems—Oracle. However, Dell said his company would ... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid Appoints Lawrence Vertal as Executive Director

Explore businesswire.com (Jul 9 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...Grid, which consists of representatives from AMD, APC by Schneider Electric, Dell, EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. “Energy efficiency has never been a more important topic for technology vendors and their custo... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid Appoints Lawrence Vertal as Executive Director

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Jul 8 2009) Power and Cooling

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Ibm to help clients fight costs and complexity

Explore The New York Times (Jun 16 2009) Cloud Computing

...Most major technology suppliers have cloud-related hardware and software products, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Dell. But I.B.M., analysts say, is going further by offering simplified, integrated stacks of h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Sun Microsystems   Google

Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

Explore Technology News (May 7 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

... achieve carbon neutrality through a combination of efficiency practices and buying carbon offsets. Hewlett-Packard has announced a goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 16 percent from its 2005 levels befo......nhouse gas emissions by 16 percent from its 2005 levels before the end of 2010. About 99 percent of HP's greenhouse gas emissions come from electricity use, with only 1 percent coming from manufacturing... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Nokia   Amazon.com