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 ...

On March 20, 2013, Oracle Corp. reported $9.0 billion in revenue for the third quarter of Oracle's fiscal year 2013 (ending February 28, 2013), showing a decline of 1% year over year. GAAP net income was $2.5 billion, which was flat with th ...

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 ...

The fourth Open Compute Summit, which was held in Santa Clara, California, January16–17, 2013, took time out to review the progress that the community has made since the last meeting in San Antonio in May 2012. A number of innovations were ...

On November 8, 2012, HP added Intel Itanium 9500 processors to its HP Integrity line of servers, across a wide range of HP Integrity server models. HP also provided a new version of the HP-UX 11i v3 Unix operating system, optimized to work ...

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 September 30, 2012, Oracle Corp. announced Oracle Exadata X3, the fourth generation of Oracle Exadata Database Machine engineered systems, at its Oracle OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco. Oracle Exadata X3 is the fourth generation of ...

Oracle Corp. reported $8.2 billion in revenue for Q1 FY13, a slight decline of 2% year over year, as announced in its quarterly earnings call on September 20, 2012. Net income grew 11% to $2.03 billion, equaling Wall Street analysts' estima ...

As cloud computing becomes mainstream computing, driven by initiatives to save costs, IT organizations are increasingly focused on the workloads being deployed on the cloud — and thinking about the security, availability and management of t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...