Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...ouds will run into the first speed bumps, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Oracle. All of which are offering and developing the tools needed to build private clouds on internally su... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Oracle   IBM

Intel Buys InfiniBand Franchise

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 24 2012)

...to one supercomputer. InfiniBand is available in several enterprise products from companies such as Oracle (for its high-speed Exadata and Exalogic servers), IBM (in its System p servers), EMC Isilon (high-end storage), and others. “Consistent with what we’ve s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   Department of Energy

Cisco touts 10,000 UCS customers

Explore GigaOM (Jan 18 2012) Servers

... 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 ......d (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)

...ut that was clearly not enough to offset the decline in sales of bread-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 those big-box sales. “The thing that really moves the nee... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

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 customers. Do ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Oracle

Extending the life of your data center

Explore The Voice of IT Management (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Gartner   Oracle

Watch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers

Explore GigaOM (Sep 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...rvalued brands in the data center. It does so much, yet seems to lack the awareness of players like IBM, Cisco, Oracle, VMware, and EMC in their efforts to capture the minds of corporate buyers. It will be interest... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Oracle   Cisco

Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...igurations of datacenter hardware, the analyst said, adding that "preconfigured roll-on boxes" from Oracle and SAP, for instance, may take up less space but these devices consume "a lot more power". He adde...... is forcing CIOs toward "micro-focusing on component savings". Citing a survey jointly conducted by IBM, Samsung and Dell, the Samsung executive then pointed out that one of the datacenter management "pi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 18 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage

...ustry experts thought it was a bold move fraught with risk because it could alienate companies like IBM and HP that had been partners of Cisco’s for years. Now, Cisco seems to be making headway with its ......cquisition of 3Com. Whether it can leverage this to compete on par with Cisco remains to be seen. o Oracle: Well known for software that powers the Internet, Oracle combined this with ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

Unix Servers Growing As Mainstay Of Data Centres

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

...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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

11 Ways Your Peers Are Saving Power In The Data Center

Explore zdnet.com (Jun 1 2011)

...ans and see where you come up lacking — or ahead of the curve. Transparent Application Scaling With IBM DB2 PureScaleTransparent application scaling with IBM DB2 pureScale. With ... (IBM)Download Now Leverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and WindowsLeverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and ... (IBM)Download Now Future Proofing Mobile ComputersRugged mobile computers deployed to warehouses ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   IBM

Why IBM's Hardware Business Is Flying High

Explore eweek.com (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...nsolidated over 30 points of share in the mid-range server market since 2000 at the expense of both Oracle/Sun (minus 5 pts) and HP (minus 19 points)," and "IBM’s Power architecture arguably has a 1 to 2 generation lead over UltraSPARC, suggesting it is ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Gartner   Oracle

What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...le, if any, difference in either the energy efficiency or density offered by systems from Dell, HP, IBM or Oracle. "Every vendor is telling a story that emphasizes how many of their systems you can cram into a sma... (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

IBM, based on the strength of its mainframe business and the overall health of its x86-based systems, r...... and the fourth consecutive quarter with increased year-over-year revenue growth, according to IDC. Oracle And Fujitsu Shrink In Growing Market Worldwide server shipments jumped 6.1 percent, to 2.1 million ... (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)

...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 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)

...ison took several jabs at one of his most formidable competitors – and this time his target was not IBM Leave it to Larry Ellison, Oracle’s outspoken co-founder and CEO, to “spark up” what, at first, was looking like a pretty standard, n... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.

Explore The New York Times (Nov 26 2010) Storage

...gh plenty of scenarios ahead of time. It has the cash and capability to play the M&A; game with HP, IBM, and Oracle should it need to. So we may not have seen the end just yet. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

StorageTek Library Extension For Mainframes Released

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 27 2010) Storage

Oracle has released a highly-scalable additional tier of storage for mainframes which can also be used in ...... has twice the disk scalability of previous StorageTek libraries and five times the availability of IBM mainframe tape systems. Like IBM, StorageTek is a data storage senior citizen that has earned its stripes in the enterprise over a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Facebook

25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...nity will be short -- particularly in the hardware market -- because billion-dollar vendors such as Oracle, IBM, HP and Microsoft will jealously guard profit margins, and try to push out new competitors by swall... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Big Data Is Big Business

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 19 2010) Cloud Computing

...cent acquisitions in the analytics and data warehousing industry. Data Center Knowledge reported on IBM’s acquisition of Netezza for $1.7 billion in cash, just after Oracle announced a cloud-based Exadata Elastic Service at Oracle World this year. Also this past summer, EMC acquired data warehousing company Greenplum. This past ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Oracle   Data Center Knowledge

HP-SAP merger talk considered far-fetched

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 5 2010)

...pplications, starting with the formal unveiling of the first handsets  ... Energen migrated SAP and Oracle software from 20 Sun servers to 2 IBM Power servers. Energen saved an estimated $500,000 in annual costs, largely through reductions in Oracle licensing fees; accelerated the deployment of new servers from one month to two days; boosted perfo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

HP Ousts Cisco Kit From Its Data Centres

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

...e. The move brought Cisco into more direct competition with HP, as well as other vendors, including IBM and Dell. HP officials answered later in the year when they announced their interest in buying 3Com......eplace Mark Hurd, who resigned under pressure in August and has since been hired as co-president at Oracle. Reports circulated earlier this month that HP was looking at internal candidates for Hurd’s replac... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM

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

...Smart Analytics System that helps businesses draw real-time information from large 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

Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...e Maiden facility will have a “heavy emphasis” on high availability technologies, including IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters. + Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with stor... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Oracle