EMC World: EMC Bashes Facebook’s Open Compute Mission Critical Worth

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 21 2012) Storage

...lity. A number of big name storage players have pledged to take part in the initiative, with HP and Dell recently pledging to create server and storage boxes to fit with the new, spacier, greener Open Rac......low data mobility between in-house and external arrays either from EMC or third parties like rivals IBM and Hitachi Data Systems. EMC is still not viewed as the most open player in the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   IBM   Dell

Cloud Computing: Nvidia Claims Cloud GPU

Explore SOA World Magazine (May 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...Taiwan Semiconductor. Nvidia is reportedly working with VMware, Microsoft and Citrix as well as HP, Dell, Cisco and IBM on support. Nvidia also has a gaming implementation of Kepler cloud technologies called GeForce Gri... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Nvidia   IBM

In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 16 2012)

...ears and decades before we understand all the consequences, but hardware manufacturers such as AMD, Dell and IBM are paying attention and building hardware to Facebook/Open Compute specs.  You may one day find th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

Open Compute Shakes Up Server Supply Chain

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 8 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...(ODM) providers and other alternatives to working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell, HP and IBM that have dominated server sales in the U.S. ODMs have historically kept a low profile while custom... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook   IBM

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 the open, an... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Google   The Green Grid

Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...nue and 6.1 percent of all server shipments. While plenty of companies spend money buying gear from IBM, HP and Dell, others are going direct to the companies that build servers for those giants. For companies such a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

Facebook-Driven Open Compute Project Grows Membership, Technologies

Explore eweek.com (May 2 2012) Construction

...atest to the join the group, which at its conference also is showing off projects from the likes of Dell, Intel and AMD. Print Version Sponsored By The Open Compute Project, started by Facebook a yea...... Salesforce.com and Canonical—Frankovsky told Bloomberg that there also have been discussions with IBM—and an expanding number of projects underway. At the show, the Open Compute Project unveiled its Op... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...hift in power is what led me to wonder if Open Compute might mean the end of decent margins for HP, Dell, IBM and other vendors when Facebook launched the project. But it looks like the ecosystem is adapting. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Facebook

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 Greenpe... (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... (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 dedi... (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

...15.3 percent in 2012. Apple now has the fifth-lowest score in the report. It leapfrogged Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Home » Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says April 18, 2012 Sale......6.4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, up from 55.9 in the 2011 report. New entrant Dell draws 56.3 percent of its energy from renewables, the report says. This year’s report is ... (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......hest 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-energy i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Intel, FieldView Technology to Help Banks Cut Data Center Costs

Explore American Banker (Mar 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...er can extract real-time power readings and thermal readings off server platforms from OEMs such as Dell, HP, IBM and Cisco. It provides power capping across groups of servers. It provides serial number data for s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   IBM

What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

One could describe Dell as acquisition-crazy, and not be far off the mark. It has now captured two new companies in three w......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Oracle   Cisco

How the data center market is changing

Explore Smart Business (Mar 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint

... no demand, the supply price is high. If you can increase demand to where there is a viable market, Dell, HP, IBM — the big computer manufacturers — are starting to see a market in these different voltages, so... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   IBM   Dell

With planned SeaMicro buy, AMD to double down on servers

Explore GigaOM (Feb 29 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...bscale and cloud computing market, and are fundamentally different machines than those built by HP, Dell and IBM. The promise of the boxes is they cram a lot of compute into a tight space and consume less power. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   Dell

HP Shows Gen8 Servers With ‘Sea Of Sensors’

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 14 2012) Servers , Storage

... 3 players in their respective world markets. For decades, HP has had to fight off competition from IBM, Dell and other smaller companies, and now it is facing some serious new competition from Cisco Systems f... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

A CTO’s take on cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...the current state of the market. Here are my main takeaways from a recent conversation with him. 1: IBM is cloudier than you think. Big Blue has a pretty potent set of cloud options but it’s going about ....... Initiated by Rackspace and NASA, it’s achieved critical mass with nearly every IT provider — from Dell, to HP, to Cisco, to Citrix — aboard and Rackspace offloading management to a more ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Cisco   IBM

Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

...or 29.1 percent of all Intel-based servers shipped (despite a 3.1 percent decline for the quarter.) Dell was number two with 21.8 percent share with IBM, Fujitsu, and Lenovo rounding out the top five. Cisco remains in the “other” category. It seems cle... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Oracle   Cisco

Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

...ad-and-butter servers. Oracle’s not alone in this data center appliance race where it competes with IBM’s Netezza, EMC Greenplum and other offerings. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he is pleased with thos......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

HPC News, SGI, Blue Waters, Dell

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 9 2011) Supercomputer

...The National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project was awarded to Cray last month after NCSA and IBM terminated the original contract last summer. Dell’s HPC Strategy. The Register reports on how Dell is going to engage the market to grow its HPC strategy. The primary focus for Dell’s HPC strategy is to concentrate on smaller HPC systems where projects are well-bounded with known ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   National Science Foundation   Facebook   IBM

The Green Grid: modularity is sign of maturity

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 15 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ed for on-site deployment.” Nearly all major IT vendors sell modular data centers. They include HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco, among others. So do major infrastructure vendors, such as Emerson and PDI. There are als... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Cisco

Web Host Savvis Hires Away Microsoft Amazon Cloud Executives

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...more than 1,600 corporate clients. Prior to Microsoft in 1998, Parker was a consultant in Texas for Dell and American Medical Management, and a senior programmer analyst and consultant for IBM in Italy. “As cloud services continue to assume their place at the very core of IT, Savvis has the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Bill Fathers