June 2013 Storage giant NetApp, as an effort to reduce their legal and business risks, the Enterprises of today continue to struggle with improving their data management. They need to do this all the while making sure that the cost of managing data which is unstructured remains managed. To meet with the needs of the […]
June 2013 One of the oldest members of the market family that was founded in 1982 and that has been selling computers, components of computers, Information technology services and software is no one other than Sun Microsystems, now owned by Oracle as of 2010. This company is not just limited to these peripherals; it also […]
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 […]
March 2013 Network giant, Cisco reports latest quarterly report provided further evidence that spending on technology gear is rising modestly in most parts of the world, despite persisting concerns about a still-shaky economy. The earnings announced, covering the fiscal second quarter ending on Jan. 26, exceeded analyst projections for the world’s largest maker of computer […]
February 2013 Oracle said today that it has agreed to buy Acme Packet for $1.7 billion. Acme Packet sells voice and data products and services used across IP networks. Its customers range from telecommunications providers to large enterprises and include 90 of the world’s top 100 communications firms, according to Oracle. The addition of Acme […]
January 2013 Q4 at IBM was better than expected on both the bottom and top lines. IBM reported fourth quarter earnings of $5.8 billion, or $5.13 a share, on revenue of $29.3 billion, down 1 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $5.39 a share. Wall Street was expecting IBM to report fourth quarter […]
November 2012 Cisco Systems, the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, started warning in April that global economic conditions were putting the brakes on its growth again. Its stock still hasn’t recovered from the ensuing sell-off. The latest quarter, which ended in October, is expected to be one of slow growth as well. Excluding […]
October 2012 NetApp, a global leader in storage and data management, has introduced new additions to the FAS3200 series, a Flash-optimized and cluster-enabled platform that serves as the foundation for an agile data infrastructure. The new systems, the FAS3220 and FAS3250, increase the performance and scalability for growing enterprises — improving performance by up to […]
