Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

Oracle is finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the compan......finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the company's Sun Microsystems-rooted servers fell 14 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-ago period. And gross mar... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Sandia Adopts Unique Cooling Approach

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 1 2011) Servers

...er World conference in Orlando, Florida. RedSky uses 36 racks of cabinets filled with hardware from Oracle (Sun Microsystems) providing 10 teraflops of computing power apiece. Each cabinet uses about 32 kilowatts of power. T......rough the rows of racks and their cooling doors, the air is returned via a ceiling plenum. Emerson, Sun Team on Door and Pumping Unit Red Sky uses the Sun Cooling Door (also known as ... (Read Full Article)

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DealBook: Oracle to Buy RightNow for $1.43 Billion

Explore dealbook.nytimes.com (Oct 24 2011)

... and Facebook related to their brand. Based in Bozeman, Montana, RightNow has nearly 2,000 clients. Oracle’s acquisition — which is its biggest since it purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in April 2009 — may also indicate that the enterprise company’s appetite for acqui... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

The Battle for the Converged Data Center Network

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

...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 Sun Microsystems equipment. It is still missing the networking piece, so it could be looking for an acquisition in t... (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

... all three”. Itanium Row Causing Instability The report comes at a time when former partners HP and Oracle are taking swings at each other. Oracle entered into the hardware business last year when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Through the deal, Oracle inherited Sun’s SPARC hardware business, bringing it into direct competition with HP and IBM. The competition wa... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Intel   Oracle

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......ore enterprises migrate to cloud-based services to drive their business.” WayIn raises $6.4 million Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has raised close to $6.4 million in financing for one of his new ... (Read Full Article)

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Why IBM's Hardware Business Is Flying High

Explore eweek.com (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...enegal and Namibia." Coincidentally, Rosamilia noted that April 20 marked the second anniversary of Oracle's announcement that it would acquire Sun Microsystems. Deutsche Bank Global Markets said in a March 26 research note, "IBM has consolidated over 30 point......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Gartner   Oracle

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

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...ch is gaining popularity with users -– as well as its more aggressive sales approach. "Since buying Sun, Oracle has been aggressively pitching low-cost hardware deals in a bid to hold and possibly expand the for... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...rs, had 29.9 percent market share, followed by Dell at 12.6 percent. Rounding out the top five were Oracle – with the server business acquired via the Sun Microsystems purchase – and Fujitsu, which both saw revenue declines. HP Strongest In x86 Market For the year, I... (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)

...titors – and this time it was not IBM. Computers As Animals On stage at the 1940s-era auditorium on Sun Microsystems’ old Agnews campus, Ellison put up a series of slides showing how much faster he claims the latest ...... old Agnews campus, Ellison put up a series 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)

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

...ters the server market essentially declaring war with server giants HP, IBM, and Dell. April 2009 | Oracle announces Sun acquisition After IBM’s initial dialog with Sun, Oracle enters the hardware market. April 2009 | Dave Donatelli, long time senior EMC executive joins HP To... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Cisco

StorageTek Library Extension For Mainframes Released

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

...hly-scalable additional tier of storage for mainframes which can also be used in x86-based systems. Oracle, which has not revealed much about how it intends to keep developing its Sun StorageTek franchise since the Sun Microsystems acquisition 10 months ago, introduced a new Virtual Library Extension that adds new-generation stor... (Read Full Article)

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The Blackbox Lives! Or at Least is Not Dead

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 11 2010) Container

One of the many unanswered questions surrounding Oracle’s acquisition of of Sun Microsystems was the fate of the Sun “Blackbox” data center container business. In the fall of 2006, Sun became the first server vendor to introduce a shipping container packed with servers, and has inves... (Read Full Article)

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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway

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

...ied 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)

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...rvers. The slowing of spending on servers will have an impact on systems makers. Most vulnerable is Oracle, which is seeing a rapid drop in spending on Sun Microsystems hardware, and that will only continue, Gill said. About 21 percent of Oracle/Sun customers are planning to leave Oracle for a competitor, while another 26 percent are considering it. Sun Microsystems customers expressed concern about Oracle’s hardware plans before ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Intel

IBM's reorg shows shape of IT to come

Explore Technology News (Jul 28 2010)

...e; as a result, acquisitions and industry consolidation--once rare in IT--are now commonplace. Oracle's purchase of Sun and subsequent "Software. Hardware. Complete." campaign will be cited as the competitive initiative... (Read Full Article)

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As IBM preps mainframe launch, war of words with Oracle's Sun, HP heats up

Explore zdnet.com (Jul 19 2010)

...rnance to our other industry leading technologies. As IBM preps mainframe launch, war of words with Oracle's Sun, HP heats up By Larry Dignan | July 19, 2010, 3:11pm PDT Summary IBM this week plans to launch its ......f systems plan for the data center. May the data center sniping begin. Topics Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., System, Win Rate, Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Sun Microsystems

Oracle Beefs Up Sun Storage

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 30 2010) Storage

...n provides a multiplicative effect on space savings. The deduplication and compression functions on Sun Storage 7000 systems operate in real-time and require no separate post-processing tasks, Oracle said. Thanks to its January acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle became the first storage vendor to bring the company’s industry-respected DTrace Analytics for Fib... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

From the data center trenches: IT manager talks shop

Explore Data Center (Jun 29 2010) Carbon Footprint

...ices back from offshore, companies are going to need to help from managed 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're going off Unix altogether, but we're r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

How Much Integration Is Too Much in the Cloud?

Explore GigaOM (May 30 2010)

...ast year, you might be under the impression that integrated stacks are the future of IT. After all, Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems was all about integration and HP and Cisco appear locked in a death match over which one of them is... (Read Full Article)

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Bill Joy on Sun's downfall, Microsoft's prospects, green tech (q&a)

Explore Technology News (May 25 2010) Fossil Fuel

Though he helped start Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy has been spent the last five years thinking a lot more about solar energy than about that......Joy has been spent the last five years thinking a lot more about solar energy than about that other Sun. "It's early days," Joy said of the green-technology industry he now focuses on as a venture capit... (Read Full Article)

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Google unveils new cloud data storage for developers

Explore ITWorld Canada (May 19 2010) Cloud Computing , Storage

...maker's Canadian arm discusses recent changes around its Enterprise Support offering, the merger of Oracle with Sun Microsystems and the changing dynamics between vendors and CIOs. By: Howard Solomon (06 May 2010)Eight months ag... (Read Full Article)

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5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players

Explore Earth2Tech (Apr 28 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...the past year, and many industry observers are anticipating more aggressive moves from the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft. In SAP’s case, the German software giant bought carbon accounting startup Clear......ar Standards last year, rebranded it as SAP Carbon Impact and has since landed customers including Sun Power, Intuit, Autodesk, and the University of Buffalo. Anirban Chakrabarti, Clear Standards’ forme... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   U.N.   Europe   Sun Microsystems

Is storage the next hot issues? by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 15 2010)

... green data centers. Firstly, I sat through a long launch event for what we can now think of as Oracle's new hardware division: Sun Microsystems (my report should be here by the time this goes live). Mostly it was all about how great the Sun servers are, and how Oracle is somehow going to go in two directions at once - making those servers into super-fast tuned Oracle application servers ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Uptime Institute