May 2013 Oracle, and its server line from Sun Microsystems, is refreshing its SPARC server lineup with new T5 and M5 systems that redefine the top-end for server performance. The new T5 SPARC processor is a step up from the T4 that Oracle announced in late 2011. Marshall Choy, Oracle’s director of systems solutions and […]
May 2013 Big Blue is serious about expanding the footprint of the Linux operating system running on IBM Power servers. Considering that IBM recently reported a 31 percent decline in overall Power-based systems revenue, it’s a footprint that needs to get bigger, fast. Today IBM announced a new initiative in China in an effort to help grow […]
Recently, Staples has agreed to work with one of the most environmentally progressive electronic-waste recycling groups to handle gadgets from both the company and consumers when those devices die, Greentec Systems just found out. The retail giant announced a deal Monday, Earth Day, to use recyclers certified by e-Stewards, a program set up by the […]
April 2013 IBM first launched its PureSystems approach in an attempt to integrate hardware and software into application platform patterns in April of 20102. With PureSystems, integrated solutions set for specific applications and workloads are realized in packaged offerings from IBM. This approach is finding market traction, according to IBM. At the end of 2012, […]
April 2013 NetApp unveiled a new operating system that hopes to solve the main Achilles heel of Flash memory today which has the “annoying” property to quickly wear-out! FlashRay will be in beta mid-year and available commercially in early 2014. Spinning disks don’t wear out, they fail. But Flash predictably wears out because of the […]
