Facebook letting Open Compute Project go. Will it fly?

Explore GigaOM (Oct 27 2011)

...kers with foundation directors including Silicon Valley superstar Andy Bechtolsheim who co-founded Sun Microsystems and is now chief development officer of Arista Networks. Also on the board are Don Duet, head of gl......re for Goldman Sachs; Mark Roienigk, the COO of Rackspace; and Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s data center group. Frank Frankovsky, Facebook’s director of hardware and supply chain, is executi... (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

...ne in enterprise data centres, despite soaring sales of x86 servers Servers running x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices may be the fastest-selling in the market, but Unix systems continue to p......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Today’s Fusion-io IPO Leads Wave of Fundings

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 9 2011)

...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 ventures,......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)

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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 ......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... (Read Full Article)

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What’s Next? Hotter Servers With ‘Gas Pedals’

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

... you think. Take the data center in the desert. Subodh Bapat, the former VP of Energy Efficiency at Sun Microsystems, shared an anecdote about a data center user in the Middle East that wanted to test server failure ......ower,” said Bapat. The processor perspective was shared by Henry Wong, Senior Staff Technologist at Intel, who was sympathetic to data center executives’ yearnings for advanced power management tools. But ... (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 ......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)

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...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 to an increase in co......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 ... (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

...k turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Oracle-Sun data centre products on 27 Jan. before a packed auditorium here on the bayside campus of the world'......rovider, 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... (Read Full Article)

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With Sun, Oracle Says It Has All the Pieces

Explore The New York Times (Jan 26 2010)

... Paul Sakuma/Associated Press Oracle's chief, Lawrence J. Ellison, left, hopes Scott G. McNealy, Sun's chairman, will stay. Related Times Topics: Oracle Corporation | Sun Microsystems Inc. The $7.4 billion deal, which gives Oracle a vast hardware business for the first time, pits......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Forecast 2010: Servers get a makeover in 2010

Explore PC World (Dec 29 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

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Intel's Next Target

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

...decade of trying to make inroads into the high-performance area dominated by companies like IBM and Sun Microsystems, Intel finally may have found an opening. What's changed is that the battle is becoming less about crea....... Oracle sees the opportunity, too, which is why it's desperately trying to wrap up its deal to buy Sun. And ( HPQ - news - people ) and ( DELL - news - people ) already sell Intel-based hardware ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Looks To Create Energy Efficient "Microservers"

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 23 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

Intel officials say that demand is growing for servers that are small, relatively cheap and energy-effici......ce design—that can put 16 modules in a 5U (8.75-inch) enclosure. Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and more recently the founder of Arista Networks, came to the stage to talk about the need of such ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Companies, Brand Recognition

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 22 2009) Cloud Computing

...itable company. United States Computer Hardware 30,636 In the fast-growing mobile computing market, Intel stands to find success. Determined to break into this category, the world’s number one chipmaker an......out competitors in application sales and new software license revenues. With the recent purchase of Sun Microsystems, Oracle also acquired MySQL, and entered the hardware category. Its partnership with HP on a new da... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid Appoints Lawrence Vertal as Executive Director

Explore businesswire.com (Jul 9 2009) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...f representatives from AMD, APC by Schneider Electric, Dell, EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. “Energy efficiency has never been a more important topic for technology vendors and their custo... (Read Full Article)

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The Green Grid Appoints Lawrence Vertal as Executive Director

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Jul 8 2009) Power and Cooling

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Solar Power at Data Center Scale

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 16 2009) Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ble Internet Services Online), which operates a 1,500 square foot facility in Romoland, California. Intel and Sun Microsystems have tested solar power systems generating 10 kilowatts to partially power data center containers. ... (Read Full Article)

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Why Oracle Wants Solaris

Explore Forbes.com (Jun 16 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

... Dan Woods Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems, but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained. Here's a look at the...... run Solaris 8 and 9 apps in containers. Further, Solaris runs on a huge range of hardware from x86 Intel platforms to high-end RISC servers. Solaris can run on any hardware platform, not just ... (Read Full Article)

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What Intel Can Teach Google About the Cloud

Explore GigaOM (Jun 14 2009) Cloud Computing

...ecoms, networking vendors, and cloud providers can learn a few things from the past by studying how Intel and AMD responded when their processors evolved so quickly that they couldn’t get data off of them ......n Delivery Networking, will be required for clouds to be efficient and usable. In the late ’90s, Sun Microsystems coined the term, “The network is the computer.” Although ahead of its time, the company ... (Read Full Article)

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Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

Explore Technology News (May 7 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...ails to specify what each company includes in its carbon footprint. But according to that EPA list, Intel will reduce its global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent per from 2004 to 2010; Cisco wi......2003 to 2010 for all non-data center space and to purchase 5 percent green power for data centers." Sun Microsystems reduced U.S. GHG emissions by 23 percent from 2002 to 2007 and pledged ... (Read Full Article)

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