Low power is the new black for data centers

Explore GigaOM (Mar 6 2012) Construction , Servers

...ve another key acquisition last week. AMD, a company that has fought a decades-long losing war with Intel over building the best CPU, acquired low-power server maker SeaMicro in a move that says a lot abou......em level. But margins remain tight in the commodity server business, leading some companies like Oracle to abandon it altogether. Expensive acquisitions like the $334 million AMD paid for SeaMicro remai... (Read Full Article)

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Smart lights, bright data center

Explore ITworld (Jan 25 2012) Construction

...ogies on POWER7 processor-based server platforms against VMware vSphere 4.1 update 11 on comparable Intel x86 platforms. In this webcast learn how Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and SPARC Supercluster deliver the security, performance, and scalability re... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Buys InfiniBand Franchise

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 24 2012)

Intel bolstered its networking industry standing on 23 January by acquiring the InfiniBand intellectual p......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-... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by t...... value end users." End users here, of course, being Red Hat's customers. Consider it the inverse of Oracle's engineered systems, where Oracle claims to save customers money by building proprietary systems top to ... (Read Full Article)

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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......ss as a Competitive Advantage. I so agree with this article. In fact, in January 2011 at our annual Intel IT Leadership Summit... Definitely mobile social networking is a buzz word in Asia at the moment. B... (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

...bringing it into direct competition with HP and IBM. The competition was heightened in March, when Oracle announced it would no longer support Intel’s Itanium platform. Oracle executives said the chip platform was coming to an end, but HP – which relies on Itanium to power i... (Read Full Article)

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Today’s Fusion-io IPO Leads Wave of Fundings

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 9 2011)

...e market momentum from Fusion-io’s pending IPO, EMC’s plan to accelerate flash storage adoption and Oracle’s TPC-C flash based world record. “Our new capital will allow us to speed up product development an......ram to increase university research and accelerate innovation. “The co-principal investigators from Intel and UC Berkeley will lead a talented team of researchers from across the country to address today’s... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Sun Microsystems   Intel

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

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...ace may well be an indicator of the commoditization of the sector. All vendors use the same AMD and Intel chips, the same RAM and the same disks. Their efforts to simplify management, and otherwise entice ......though it far outscored the others, HP (NYSE: HPQ) came in a respectable second. IBM (NYSE: IBM)and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) scored poorly in this category, with IBM improving a little compared to last ... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...logy companies is hitting the market. One startup you've never heard of might end up being the next Intel or Microsoft. Others may force changes upon established vendors that have gone stale, which will ha......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM

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

... 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

Signs of Strength from Server Sector

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 26 2010)

... server revenue. In the list of the top five server vendors only second place IBM and fourth place Oracle were absent from reporting revenue increases for the second quarter. Aside from the battle for 3PAR......several upbeat announcements about the server market and processors, and one down-beat warning from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Gartner reports increased server shipments. Gartner (IT) reported Wednesday that... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   IBM

One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

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

...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......ata centre architecture, Cisco-made servers, and a set of management software and services based on Intel’s quad-core Nehalem Xeon processors. Cisco partners are providing all hardware and software that is... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Intel

Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...ing on servers will continue to be slow in 2010 * By: Jeffrey Burt * August 3, 2010 Tags:Dell, IBM, oracle, Sun Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon ......y are saying. For example, during a conference call on 13 July to announce second-quarter earnings, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the record financial results were due in large part ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Intel

Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia's First Unified Computing Center

Explore MarketWatch.com (Jun 24 2010) Cloud Computing

...isioning and migration support. It will also feature technology from APC, CA, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, VMware and other partners. As the pioneering solution center in the region, the Cisco... (Read Full Article)

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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...elieves there is a strong correlation between how fast cloud computing can proliferate and how well Intel plays its role to lead the open cloud solutions at IaaS and PaaS layers. Interoute - Europe’s large......private beta, aimed at providing every user with a “Virtual Private Cloud” within the public cloud. Oracle - The world's largest business software company Parallels - "Cloud storage" involves clustering ten... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

The Top 250 Players in Cloud Computing

Explore AJAX & RIA Journal (May 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...elieves there is a strong correlation between how fast cloud computing can proliferate and how well Intel plays its role to lead the open cloud solutions at IaaS and PaaS layers. Interoute - Europe’s large......private beta, aimed at providing every user with a “Virtual Private Cloud” within the public cloud. Oracle - The world's largest business software company Parallels - "Cloud storage" involves clustering ten... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Iceland   Europe

Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

Explore Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers

... improvement in data centers. Members of the consortium include technology giants such as AMD, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle, as well as other critical companies such as Cisco, Google, and Texas Instruments. According to its... (Read Full Article)

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Processor Whispers: About Parties and Party Poopers

Explore h-online.com (Feb 15 2010)

...rmance and an increased virtualisation capability in comparison to equally priced products from Sun/Oracle and Intel – the cherry on the cake being a three to four times higher energy efficiency. Through the pricing,... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 28 2010) Cloud Computing

Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the spee......I've been trying." Only ten percent of computers have their power managed. It's time we did better, Intel's eco-tech manager told us,… (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)

Oracle, having spent the last nine months fighting rivals and regulators in order to own Sun Microsystems,......isrupted by the rise of powerful, more standardized computers based on readily available chips from Intel and an innovative software market. Customers could suddenly choose the technology they preferred fr... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

HP And Microsoft Team Up Over Cloud Tech

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

... suggest that the deal, apparently in the works since April 2009, was not a competitive response to Oracle or other IT companies in the enterprise space. “I wouldn’t want you to think this was a reaction to......d to this article. Only ten percent of computers have their power managed. It's time we did better, Intel's eco-tech manager told us,… (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

IBM Says Green Spending Lets Companies Save Long Term

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...ussed "The Greening of Corporations," which also included Scott C. Bolick of SAP, Mukesh Khattar of Oracle, Bruce Klafter of Applied Materials, and moderator Lynelle Cameron of Autodesk. IBM, along with jus...... use less electric power -- thanks largely to new, cooler-running processors from companies such as Intel, AMD and QLogic. IBM's Global Services division also has been doing increasing business helping com... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Oracle

Server Den: Architectural Differentiation To Dominate In 2010

Explore InformationWeek (Jan 5 2010) Servers

...ral front. The upshot is that 2010 will be an exciting year. Spurred by processor innovations from Intel and AMD, we'll see a pitched battle for market leadership among IBM, HP, and Dell. So-called niche ......ich will reposition itself by refocusing on its high-end offerings, after it has been absorbed into Oracle. More Hardware Insights WhitepapersThe AMD Processor Roadmap for HP ProLiant ServersTV 2.0 - Th... (Read Full Article)

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Intel's Next Target

Explore Forbes.com (Sep 28 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

...s high-end servers into this world as it can, but if all else fails it will be content with selling Intel-based machines. Oracle sees the opportunity, too, which is why it's desperately trying to wrap up its deal to buy Sun. And... (Read Full Article)

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