Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
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Google's Chromebook laptop will be carried by more than 6,600 stores around the world, as the company signs on more retailers. Starting Monday, Walmart is offering an Acer Chromebook, which has a 16GB Solid State Drive, in about 2,800 ...
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Hewlett-Packard has shuffled the management of its PC division as it tries to sharpen its focus on growth markets. HP said that top executive Todd Bradley will step down from his role as executive vice president of the Printing and ...
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While Windows 8 is getting blamed for dismal PC sales, upgrading laptops and desktop systems isn't a priority for business users, according to new research. Businesses are increasing capital spending, but they are directing that money at ...
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The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in ...
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Could Samsung's "next big thing" come from the heart of the Big Apple or Silicon Valley? The smartphone and consumer electronics maker is close to launching an incubator space for startups that are developing software and services for ...
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Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday said it has begun to integrate its hardware and management systems with Google Apps. The announcement was part of CEO Meg Whitman's nearly hour-long presentation at the company's big user conference here. She ...
Hewlett-Packard wants to help organizations get rid of their useless data, all the information that is no longer needed yet still takes up expensive space on storage servers. The company's Autonomy unit has released a new module, called ...
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The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center." The entertainment giant is taking about 9,000 square feet of data center space, spread in three data centers, and shrinking it ...
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Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software. The HP 3Par StoreServ 7450 Storage system, being introduced on Tuesday at the HP ...
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Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC. IDC said that first-quarter sales fell in developed markets, causing an overall decline of 0.9 percent year on ...
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Microsoft today announced it's struck a deal with Best Buy to create 600 stores-within-stores in the U.S. and Canada to sell customers on Windows 8, the Surface tablet line, and new PCs and devices from other OEMs. The move, which ...
On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be ...