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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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 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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Cloud changing face of data centers

Explore zdnetasia.com (Apr 18 2011) Cloud Computing

...s, say market watchers. APAC Financial Services Technology 11 May - 13 May 2011 Four Seasons, Macau HP Enterprise Cloud Services/Utility Roundtable Event 25 May St Regis Hotel, Singapore Cloud Computing......lping to deliver energy efficiency to data centers, said Alex Tay, datacenter services executive at IBM Asia-Pacific. This, he explained in an e-mail interview, is a result of an increase in server utili... (Read Full Article)

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Is HP Ready to Take on Amazon in the Cloud?

Explore internetnews.com (Mar 14 2011) Cloud Computing

...tplace that would compete with Apple for consumers, SMB and enterprise applications and services. Hewlett Packard's CEO had his big coming out party today at the HP Summit event in San Francisco. The event was billed as an opportunity to hear in detail for the fir......o has to catch up? Apotheker said in response to a press question about competing with the likes of IBM on the enterprise ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Hewlett Packard

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

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

...research firm IDC. IDC’s findings, released February 28, echo 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 IDC analysts said is contin......e only platform outside of Windows and Linux to see positive revenue growth for the fourth quarter. HP ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

...s told eWEEK. Intense Competition No matter that dozens of other companies are already far ahead of IBM in this sector, including such longtime competitors as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Wyse, Oracle, and Cisco Systems. Oh, and don’t forget all those brazen newcomers that incl... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Interxion Plans to Launch IPO on NYSE

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 12 2011)

...Interxion customers mentioned in the SEC filing include Akamai, Canon, ABN Amro Bank N.V., Sungard, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, AT&T. At the end of this article you will find the most recent financial data available f... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...k several sort-of-playful jabs at one of his most 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 several ja......s 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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HP-SAP merger talk considered far-fetched

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 5 2010)

Hewlett-Packard's surprise decision last week to appoint ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker to its top job has stirred up spe...... 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 north of $100 billion in revenue each year, they aren't known for much more ... (Read Full Article)

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Leading EU Broadband Providers Commit to Energy Saving

Explore The New York Times (Sep 28 2010) Emissions , Networking

...om-Orange, OTE, Telefonica and Turk Telekom among others, have joined heavyweights such as Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone and Cisco in the voluntary plan to help cut carbon emissions. The new s... (Read Full Article)

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HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 27 2010) Networking

...e routers and switches from its six data centres highlights the disintegrating relationship between Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. HP's data centres are now 'Cisco Free' as Hewlett Packard continues to highlight the increasing bad blood between the two companies HP has announced that it has purged Cisco networking gear from all six of its data centers and is oper......software from the likes of EMC and VMware. The move ... (Read Full Article)

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