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Oracle In-Memory Apps: Hunting Hana
Oracle releases its own in-memory applications in response to SAP's Hana strategy. How do they stack up?
Oracle Q2 Results: Ellison Spins On Sun
CEO Larry Ellison talks up Oracle's Sun acquisition even as hardware sales slide 23%. Software sales rise.
Why Dell Bought Quest Software
Dell acquired Quest Software because no hardware vendor is surviving on the sales of hardware alone--the demand is for integrated systems.
iPad Rivals Fire Back
Samsung and Nvidia respond to harsh comparisons Apple made during launch of the new iPad with criticisms of their own.
2 Ways To Ease Hadoop Growing Pains
EMC Isilon and RainStor address enterprise gaps in the open source Apache Hadoop framework.
IW500: Ray Lane Says HP Strategy Sound, Messaging Stinks
HP chairman says company will spin off its PC business, build a services business based on cloud models, and will stay away from low-margin...
Data Centers May Not Gobble Earth, After All
Good news: Data center power use didn't grow nearly as fast as predicted the past five years. You can thank cloud computing and new data center...
Storage Virtualization Using The Hypervisor
Hypervisor storage virtualization lets you buy systems to solve a specific problem, while letting the hypervisor move live virtual machines...
Solid-State Disk Or Solid-State Storage?
SSD, or solid-state disk, is a term that gets overused when we talk about solid-state storage. SSD is incorrectly applied to seemingly everything...
Post Mortem: When Amazon's Cloud Turned On Itself
For the cloud to be a permanent platform for enterprise computing, it can't be an environment where both computing and errors just occur on a...
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Oracle In-Memory Apps: Hunting Hana
April 11, 2013Oracle releases its own in-memory applications in response to SAP's Hana strategy. How do they stack up?
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IBM Fights Rivals With Aggressive Power Server Prices
February 05, 2013IBM entry-level Power 7+ servers now start at $6,000. Netezza analytics platform successor challenges EMC, Oracle and Teradata.
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IBM Profits On Smart Software Plays
January 23, 2013IBM's fourth-quarter 2012 results cap tenth straight year of earnings growth fueled by high-margin software sales.
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Oracle Q2 Results: Ellison Spins On Sun
December 19, 2012CEO Larry Ellison talks up Oracle's Sun acquisition even as hardware sales slide 23%. Software sales rise.
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Intel Launches Low Power Atom To Counter ARM
December 12, 2012Intel offers 6-watt chip for data centers to beat back Calxeda, other ARM designers using mobile chips to build servers.
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Oracle Open World: Key Questions On Cloud Vision
October 01, 2012As Oracle CEO Larry Ellison lays out plans for infrastructure-as-a-service, Oracle-run Private Cloud services, 12C database, and Exadata X3, the...
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Oracle Appealing Trash Talk Wrist Slap
July 25, 2012Advertising industry self-regulatory group recommends that Oracle discontinue ads claiming Exadata performance advantages over IBM Power servers.
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Why Dell Bought Quest Software
July 03, 2012Dell acquired Quest Software because no hardware vendor is surviving on the sales of hardware alone--the demand is for integrated systems.
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Why Cloud Pricing Comparisons Are So Hard
June 06, 2012Cloud infrastructure market doesn't have a standard unit of computing power, which makes it tough to stack up Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace...
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IBM Plans Exascale System For SKA Space Telescope
April 02, 2012IBM Research and Dutch astronomy agency Astron work on new technology to handle one exabyte of raw data per day that will be gathered by the world...
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