A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
Tags: HP, Oracle, continue support, Intel Itanium chips
IDG News Service-Worldwide server shipments went up in the third quarter of 2012,but revenue from those sales dropped due to economic uncertainty in some parts of the world,research firm Gartner said in a study released on Wednesday. ...
Tags: Server shipments, Server sales, Intel, Oracle, IBM
Microsoft has done a lot to boost Hyper-V but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, according to Gartner. Speaking prior to the analyst's datacentre conference at Westminster, Gartner vice-president and distinguished ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, virtual machines, x86 servers
Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
Tags: Samsung, server chips, Cortex-A57 processors, Cortex-A53 processors
Looking beyond PCs and tablets,Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group,which deals in servers,storage,networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on Intel's ...
Tags: Lenovo, software, networking, server
With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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Polycom plans to break down one more set of barriers to videoconferencing early next year with a cloud-based software platform that can set up sessions with anyone who uses Facebook,Skype,or certain other online services. The ...
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IDG News Service-Applied Micro lifted the curtain on its 64-bit ARM-based server platform at the Hot Chips conference this week and ignited a debate about whether ARM is the right architecture for the data center. Pat Gelsinger,a former ...
Tags: 64-bit ARM, server chip, cloud-computing, integration
IBM and Hewlett-Packard tied for the top position in server factory revenue in the second quarter, with a 29.2% and 29.6% share respectively, IDC said on Tuesday. But Dell was the only vendor among the top five whose server revenue ...
Tags: IBM, HP, Dell, server revenue, US