On April 29, 2013, HP released a series of announcements regarding the organization of its enterprise product groups. The moves resulted in the combination of HP's Business Critical Systems (BCS) and Industry Standard Servers and Software ( ...

Big Data is all about the four V's – volume, variety, velocity, and value. Now, with a number of server platforms being introduced to provide Big Data infrastructure, IDC expects that customers are going to see more variety in another dimen ...

This IDC Insight provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the worldwide enterprise server market for 2013. This document offers the views of IDC's server analysts about which industry major transitions will start, continue, or come to fruit ...

This IDC Insight examines the details of the "Symantec 4.0" corporate restructuring and transformation strategy announced via a public Webcast to analysts and investors on January 23, 2013. All aspects of Symantec's businesses groups are ...

The following was presented at the IDC Directions conferences in Santa Clara and Boston in March 2013.

On February 5, 2013, IBM announced added new features and capabilities to its line of PureSystems integrated systems. Taken together, the announcements show IBM's move to support diverse workloads in PureSystems, expanding the role of these ...

On January 23, 2013, Symantec announced the Symantec 4.0 strategy, which is a major reorganization of the large software company intended to improve its efficiency, its sales organization, its go-to-market programs — and the ease of deploym ...

This IDC Insight examines the high-availability features of SUSE's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating system, a Linux distribution that runs across multiple server architectures. SLES 11 has High Availability Extension (HAE), ...

This IDC Insight looks at the partnership between Symantec and VMware, announced at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco (August 2012) and Copenhagen (October 2012), that optimizes Symantec Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) software for use in virtu ...

This IDC Insight focuses on IBM's Systems and Technology Group (STG) analyst conference, held November 6–8, 2012. The conference underscored the importance of analytics, cloud computing, and IBM's Smarter Planet initiatives as leverage p ...

This IDC Presentation provides forecast updates and a qualitative view of the worldwide server market associated with the leading server providers, operating systems, and server form factors that will help new areas in the server market ...

This IDC Insight analyzes the latest version of HP-UX 11i v3, the operating system for HP's Integrity line of Unix servers. It examines the new features and provides analysis of the competitive market for server operating systems and, sp ...

On November 8, 2012, Intel announced the Itanium 9500 processor, two years after the introduction of the Intel 9300 processor, which had been code-named Tukwila.The Itanium 9500 processors (formerly code-named Poulson) are expected to provi ...

AMD announced that it will design 64-bit microprocessors based on the ARM microprocessor architecture — and that it will target the new processors for production in 2014.Highlights of the October 29 announcement are as follows:The first AMD ...

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, IBM announced the third member of the PureSystems family, the PureData System, which is an integrated system designed for data-intensive workloads. The first two PureSystems, announced in April 2012, included th ...

Stratus Technologies Inc., a high-availability technology company based in Maynard, Massachusetts, announced on September 27, 2012, that it has acquired the assets of Marathon Technologies Corp., a high-availability software company based i ...

This IDC Pivot Table contains the data that appears in the data tables shown in Worldwide and U.S. High-Availability Server 2008–2016 Forecast and Analysis (IDC #...

This IDC study updates Worldwide and U.S. High-Availability Server 2011–2015 Forecast and Analysis (IDC #...

This IDC Insight analyzes major events from the Intel Developer Forum held September 10–13, 2012, in San Francisco.

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On July 30, 2012, Oracle announced that it had entered an agreement to buy Xsigo Systems (henceforth Xsigo), a provider of software and hardware solutions for datacenter networking virtualization. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed ...

This IDC study shows the forecast for the worldwide availability and clustering software market for the years 2012–2016.: "The worldwide availability and clustering software (ACS) market saw year-over-year revenue growth (6.2% from ...

This IDC Flash summaries recent product announcements by Symantec, highlights key themes from the recent Symantec Vision 2012 conference in Las Vegas, and discusses Symantec's growth strategy.

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Oracle posted a strong report showing license revenue growth, especially in its applications software portfolio, and in the "Exa" line of engineered systems.The company's fourth quarter ended Oracle's FY2012, bringing with it a record high ...

Oracle showed a 360-degree view of its cloud offerings, inclusive of cloud software, cloud-enabled applications, social services, and service offerings. Just three years ago, Oracle was saying that it was not jumping into the cloud-computin ...

Symantec is adapting its security, protection and availability products to address new and emerging market opportunities in mobile computing, appliances, cloud computing, Big Data and real-time analytics to move more quickly into rapidly ex ...

IDC looks at areas of Dell's business and provides guidance on where CIOs should evaluate Dell as a partner to their business.

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Oracle announced new x86 server models for deployment as standalone servers, based on the Intel Xeon E5 2600 (Sandy Bridge) x86 processors. The April 10, 2012, announcement included new Netra models, which are NEBS-compliant, carrier-grade ...

This IDC update includes these stories and more::

Intel Debuts the Intel SSD 910 Series

SGI Unveils the SGI NAS

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This week, Oracle reported its Q3 FY2012 earnings, recovering from a somewhat troubling Q2 by posting overall revenue growth of 4% in constant currency and a solid new license growth rate of 7%. Database and middleware products led the over ...

On February 27, Dell announced the 12th generation of its Dell PowerEdge server line, addressing a broad range of workloads. The announcements came at a one-day conference for analysts and press in San Francisco. Overall, the announcement m ...

On February 13, HP announced the 8th generation of the HP ProLiant line of x86 servers. Although HP has not made it part of the official announcement, it is expected the Gen8 servers will utilize the Intel Sandy Bridge processor. IDC is ant ...

This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the worldwide enterprise server market for 2012. It discusses a number of new trends emerging in the marketplace that are transforming the market dynamics — affecting server suppliers ...

Oracle continued its technology refresh for SPARC servers by injecting SPARC T4 processors into the long-standing Netra line of carrier-grade servers. This is the first time that the SPARC T4 processor, which was introduced last year, has b ...

Oracle saw its worldwide revenue growth slow in its fiscal Q2 2012, ended November 30, 2011. The results showed modest software growth of 2% compared with 21% revenue growth in the year-ago quarter, and the company saw the revenue from its ...

IDC's System Infrastructure Software team presents its annual Top 10 Predictions Web conference. In this presentation, we will address hot topics such as the rapid advance of private cloud deployments, the impact from the expected releas ...

Oracle's announcement of Oracle Solaris 11 deepened the operating system's support for server, storage and network virtualization, even as it carried forward support for earlier generations of Solaris applications for SPARC and x86 server p ...

This IDC update presents::

Highlights from IDC's Worldwide x86 PC Core Logic Chipset 3Q11 Vendor Shares

Highlights from IDC's The PC Market Is Disrupted by HDD Shortages: The Severi

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