Blades vs. standard racked servers for virtualization

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

...also locked into 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...... Research: Blades PaperHow Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility. This paper ... (Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel)Download Now Inside Intel IT on Technology for Tomorrow's CloudIf cloud ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Intel   Hewlett Packard

Don’t Write Off HP And Yahoo Just Yet

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 21 2012) Cloud Computing

...ing, “on the ropes.” Not the first time we’ve read something like this, and certainly not the last. Hewlett-Packard, established in 1939, and Yahoo, born in 1994, are both at nadirs in their histories, looking at ha......products generally work very well. It has huge service and partnership organizations. You can go to HP and basically find anything you want for a data center or IT system of any ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Center Market in North America 2010-2014

Explore transworldnews.com (May 17 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   IBM Corp.   Hewlett Packard

Facebook-Driven Open Compute Project Grows Membership, Technologies

Explore eweek.com (May 2 2012) Construction

...d unveiling a host of projects as the group’s third conference gets underway in San Antonio, Texas. Hewlett-Packard and Quanta Computer reportedly are the latest vendors to join the project, which has seen an influx......: star star star star star / 0 There are user comments on this IT & Network Infrastructure story. HP and Quanta are the latest to the join the group, which at its conference also is showing ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... for Shell Oil IT has been the upcoming deployment of a new seismic sensor. The device created with Hewlett-Packard explores old wells and areas for oil, compiling complex geological data sets into huge files. Durin...... to Green Shell’s IT The Cloud Computing Advantage: Achieving Peak Performance in Environmental ERP IBM ‘Cloud Computing’ Data Center Saves 15% in Energy Costs Constellation Energy - Click Here! Related ... (Read Full Article)

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Top secret Visa data center banks on security, even has moat

Explore usatoday.com (Mar 26 2012)

...endor. "If you can afford it, build a data center. The big guys build their own." At the same time, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others have plunged into the business of managing data centers for corporate clients, says Phil... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Cisco

What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 14 2012)

... of SonicWall gives Dell a powerful set of products and services to compete with Cisco, Juniper and HP, says Chris Preimesberger On March 14, 2012 by Chris Preimesberger eWEEK USA 2012. Ziff Davis Enter...... 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 binges. In fact, EMC may ... (Read Full Article)

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Research and Markets: Global Next-generation Data Center Market 2010-2014 Report

Explore Information Technology (Mar 13 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Networking

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   IBM Corp.   Hewlett Packard

HP Shows Gen8 Servers With ‘Sea Of Sensors’

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 14 2012) Servers , Storage

Hewlett-Packard, looking a bit more settled in its top-level administration with new chief executive Meg Whitman fo......hardware and end-user devices are all Top 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 Sys... (Read Full Article)

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Large Data Center Coming to India, as Regional Demand Booms

Explore pcworld.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... by IT systems and networking racks is already available, and top multinational companies including IBM and Hewlett-Packard have signed up as customers, said H.S. Bedi, chairman and managing director of Tulip Telecom, the p... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

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

...l of other startups are getting funded to commercialize their own ideas, while large companies like Hewlett-Packard and IBM are creating network hardware that's designed to be more programmable. But Nicira is establishing i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Forrester Research   Google

Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

...re that 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 ......vers three years ago, it roiled the data center hardware world, alienating long-term server partner Hewlett-Packard. It caused no small consternation in the IT reseller channel where many VARs made a good living sel... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Oracle   Cisco

2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...her than harsh chemicals to control corrosion, scale and biological contamination. PUE: 1.36 Hewlett-Packard: Fort Collins, Colorado HP’s new facility is a testbed for developing green data centers. The Rocky Mountain facility uses “fr......ervers from mixing with hot air exhausted from the servers. PUE: 1.15 Clear plastic walls help this HP data center keep its cool. Photo: HP IBM: Auckland, New Zealand IBM’s new down ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Iceland

Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their own data center capacity for use by customer... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...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......ally hit their stride only after the lead vendor relinquished control. (In Eclipse’s case, that was IBM.) More recently, Rackspace eased some concerns among the OpenStack software crowd by forming an Ope... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Hewlett Packard

Juniper Touts New Kit To Meet Mobile Challenge

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 3 2011) Networking

... use their iPads and smartphones, Dasgupta said. Other network vendors, including Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, also are working to provide enterprises with the tools needed to address the BYOD trend. For examp......uniper is utilising a number of advantages it has over its larger rivals – in particular, Cisco and HP – including the common Junos operating system and partnerships with the likes of Dell and IBM. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Data center energy usage needs holistic planning

Explore eco-business.com (Jul 29 2011) Servers

...al corporate priority, said Alex Tay, data center services executive for the Asia-Pacific region at IBM. This could be due to various reasons including the need to manage soaring energy costs ...and more......e energy efficiency. Ed Ansett, Asia-Pacific and Japan director for critical facilities services at Hewlett-Packard, concurred that “it is not enough” to simply recognize the need of energy saving. “You need to quan... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Hewlett Packard   IBM

Nebula Aims to Enable Every Company to Implement Cloud Computing

Explore The New York Times (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing

...like a utility where you can dial up or dial down your electrical usage. Big server vendors such as IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others are selling lots of servers as they seek to provide management layers for the infra... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Hewlett Packard

There Could Be Fire Behind Dell Buys Brocade Smoke

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (Jun 29 2011) Networking

...ce in servers, storage and networking space and better compete with other industry giants like EMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. This move would be in line with Dell's strategy of diversifying its product and services portfolio... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   Brocade Communications Systems   IBM

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 for 2......eing installed is quite a bit greater than the number being taken offline.” He also said that while HP, IBM and Oracle “are constantly trying to entice customers into standardising on their brand of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

Cisco, HP, Juniper Drive Down Ethernet Prices

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 3 2011) Networking

... in the number of ports, say Dell’Oro and Canalys Cisco Systems is facing increasing pressure from Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks in an Ethernet switching market that saw revenue decline in the first quarter,......s and modular switches. In the top-of-rack space, the top vendors by revenue were Cisco, Arista and IBM. For blade switches, it was HP, IBM and Cisco, and for modular switches, it was Cisco, HP and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Hewlett Packard   Juniper Networks

Cisco Opens Green Data Centre In Texas

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...t of IT at Cisco, said in an interview with eWEEK before the opening. Top data centre players, like IBM and Hewlett-Packard, have been using their own facilities to not only drive down costs and consolidate multiple data ce...... multiple data centres, but also to showcase for customers the capabilities of their technologies. HP officials in 2006 announced plans to consolidate 85 global data centres into six, using their own... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Cisco   The Green Grid

Data Centre Cabling Gets Built-In Monitoring Capability

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking

...ation then can be used by network management systems, such as those supplied by systems makers like Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Dell – in addition to specialists and integrators like Symantec, nLyte, and Avocent. Quareo’s ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   IBM   Chris Preimesberger

Facebook Open Compute and the PUE Trifecta

Explore | CTO Edge (Apr 18 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

...g that thought, I had the opportunity to interview Greg Huff, CTO for Industry Standard Servers, at Hewlett-Packard, about its involvement in the Facebook Open Compute Project. He stated that HP is now going to offer a 277V AC power supply that will fit any standard server that HP makes. Moreover, it is also going to be offering a complete system with a 480V UPS and 277V Power D......77V ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo