On May 16, 2013, Dell reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. Overall, the company reported a 2% decrease in quarterly revenue to $14.1 billion for the quarter; however, the big story was net income that decrea ...

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 February 19, 2013, Dell reported financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013. Overall, the company reported revenue of $14.3 billion, which represented an 11% year-over-year (YOY) decline. Net income decreased 23% YOY to ...

Dell has been a company in transition for many years now. Since Michael Dell's return as CEO of Dell in January 2007, the company has essentially been an organization going through a very public transformation. Over the past 6 years, Michae ...

On November 15th, Dell reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2013. Highlights for the quarter included weak demand for personal computers across all market segments and geographies. Overall, the company reported $1 ...

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 ...

On October 16, 2012, Dell hosted its Enterprise Strategy Update to provide information on its current and future activities for the enterprise market. The update featured the public debut of Marius Haas, the new President of Dell's Enterpri ...

On August 21, Dell reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013. Overall, the company reported an 8% year-over-year (YOY) decrease in quarterly revenue to $14.5 billion for the quarter. The sharp decline in PC reven ...

IntroductionThe Open Compute Project (OCP) celebrated their one-year anniversary last month not by looking back but by focusing on the future. The goal of the OCP is to apply open source software constructs to datacenter infrastructure desi ...

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 March 8, Cisco announced the third generation of the Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS) based on the recently announced Intel Xeon E5 processor (previously code-named Sandy Bridge). Cisco’s UCS strategy is to help customers create a more ...

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 ...

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 ...

BackgroundHP's mission-critical hardware and software strategy has been publicly tested this year. On March 22, Oracle suddenly announced that they were ending all software development for the Intel Itanium microprocessor. While on the surf ...