Systems giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced plans to migrate its mission-critical HP NonStop technology to the Intel x86 server architecture, providing customers with an alternative to Intel Itanium-based systems. At the same time - ...
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Hewlett-Packard reassigned Enterprise Group chief Dave Donatelli on Wednesday as it reported an 8 percent decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter, saying all of its major divisions except software brought in less money than a year ...
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Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers. HP's revenue for the quarter, ended April 30, was $27.6 billion, down 10% from the same period last year, the ...
Hewlett-Packard reported a drop in profit for the last quarter as printer and PC sales both declined, but said cost-cutting measures the company announced last year are starting to pay off. HP reported earnings for the first quarter of ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
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Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium, raising questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in HP’s high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to its website on January ...
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Computerworld - It has been a rough stretch for Itanium. HP and its customers were startled after Oracle in March, 2011 announced -- and without warning, according to court records -- its intent to discontinue software development on HP's ...
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The latest market share data from IDC shows that Linux is fuelling a surge in demand for server hardware. According to IDC's latest EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Server Tracker, Linux was the only operating system to experience ...
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A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...
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Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over the latter's decision to halt future software development for Itanium will enter its second phase on Feb. 4, 2013, in front of a jury that will determine whether Oracle breached a contract and ...
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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 ...
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Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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Chip manufacturer Intel is to let go of a "small percentage" of the workforce at its McAfee computer security business. Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee in February 2011 for $7.7bn (£4.8bn). At the time, Renée James, ...
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Social networking site Twitter told delegates at Oracle's MySQL Connect event in San Francisco today that it uses MySQL because it understands the system,and it's capable of processing the high frequency of queries it receives. Further ...
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