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 boxes that ......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

Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...loud 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 customers. Do ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

Michael Dell, end-to-end, PC to the Data Center

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 5 2011) Grid Computing , Servers

Michael Dell gave a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, and there is blog post summarizing his presentation. Michael emphasizes they go embra......on. Michael emphasizes they go embrace the PC. 2. We Still Love Hardware: Without mentioning Hewlett-Packard by name, Dell took a few shots at HP’s potential PC division spin-out. Dell said his company has rapidly evolved from PCs to servers to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Is HP dumping PC business like McDonald's Dumping Hamburgers?

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 29 2011)

...CEO, Leo Apotheker, that Mr. Hurd "left H-P in great shape." ... Provoke partners Microsoft and Oracle by threatening to put H-P's own operating software on PCs. Then decide not to. Remember that promis......as right or not, but the market definitely did not agree. NewImage Here are a few more summaries of HP's move over the past year. Let's say you were given a year to kill ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Apple   The New York Times

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 21.8 percent......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

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......the fourth consecutive quarter with increased year-over-year revenue growth, according to IDC. IBM, HP & Dell Steal Ahead In Server Revenues: IDC March 2, 2011 by Jeffrey Burt ibmmainframe Tweet IBM has... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Gartner

IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

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

...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 include Kaviza, nComputing... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

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

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

...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 jabs at one of his most formidable competitors – and this time his tar...... old Agnews campus, Ellison put up a series of slides showing how much faster he claims ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

...fida so far have dominated the market, crowding out international firms like NEC, SAP of Germany or Oracle of the United States. Poor bandwidth access, however, is keeping China from becoming a cloud hub. T......rts and generous government incentives more than compensate, executives said. Microsoft, I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard have also picked Singapore as the center of their own regional cloud computing initiatives. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

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......cision last week to appoint ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker to its top job has stirred up speculation that HP will acquire the enterprise applications giant to compete more effectively against rival Oracle, but some analysts say the notion is mere piffle. That's not to say there aren't obvious ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

HP Executives Predict Worldwide Population Growth, but No CEO Yet

Explore The New York Times (Sep 29 2010)

...ssure from the board because of his failure to disclose a close personal relationship with a former HP marketing contractor and for fudging expenses related to it. Hurd has become co-president at Oracle, while HP is left without a leader. Still, the company say it isn’t rudderless. To deal with the analysts i......spree, spending billions on 3Par, ArcSight, Palm, and Fortify this year. Tags: servers Companies: Hewlett Packard ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

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......eplace Mark Hurd, who resigned under pressure in August and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Sep 23 2010) Servers

...amounts of data. IBM is working to grab more market share in the $14 billion Unix server space from Hewlett-Packard and Oracle. HP and Intel have the next-generation Itanium processor and Oracle gained Sun’s market share through acquisition. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

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 dangerous ma... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Intel

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 ......naged services. ESRI has been a Sun Microsystems customer in the past. What are your plans now that Oracle owns Sun? J.P.: We're transitioning away from Unix. I won't say we ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

VMware Unit Buys Java Cache Company

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 7 2010)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

HP Gets EC Approval For 3Com Purchase

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 16 2010) Networking

... billion bid for networking equipment maker 3Com The European Commission has given its approval to Hewlett-Packard’s $2.7 billion bid to buying networking equipment maker 3Com. In a statement released on 12 Feb, t......presence in the all-important Chinese market. Building out its networking capability also will give HP a stronger play in the converged data centre space, where rivals such as Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Dell all are ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Processor Whispers: About Parties and Party Poopers

Explore h-online.com (Feb 15 2010)

...the SPECint_2006_rate (peak) – about one fifth of what the weakest new Power7 system gets. However, Hewlett-Packard has also mentioned applications that are supposed to run up to nine times faster and HP’s general manager Martin Fink even went as far as saying that “old-established customers” would be ......rmance and an increased virtualisation capability in comparison to equally priced products from Sun/Oracle and Intel – the cherry on the cake ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Fujitsu   Intel

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 ......e 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 are still relatively low, however -- 60 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

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 make a complete change in its business model. On a 13 Jan. advisory to clients by UBS tech analy......s back to like World War ... (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)

...logy heavyweights all jostling for the same corporate customers. The $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 Systems, all of whom have made a flurry of acquisitions and alliances. Many... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

IBM Sweetens Migration Path For Sun Customers

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

...tion 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 m......ticular - to step up efforts to lure Sun customers onto their respective technologies. For example, HP on 16 July - the same day Sun shareholders voted to OK the Oracle deal - announced its Sun ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

Data center plays supporting role in Avatar

Explore Computerworld (Jan 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

...tensive process is a 10,000-square-foot server farm that's packed with 34 racks and more than 4,000 Hewlett-Packard blade servers, said Paul Gunn, the data center's systems administrator, in an e-mail. The computing......ge layer capable of delivering high I/O performance at a very low latency. Proper use of EFDs in an Oracle environment can deliver increased performance compared to fibre channel drives. Read the recommenda... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Hewlett Packard   Microsoft Corp

HP And Microsoft Team Up Over Cloud Tech

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2010)

Microsoft and HP have announced a plan to collaborate on engineering, sales and marketing initiatives for enterprise......on engineering, sales and marketing initiatives for enterprise hardware and software Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced a $250 million (£153m), three-year agreement on 13 Jan. to mutually invest in engineerin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   Hewlett Packard