Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7% in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by customers slowed sales, according to research firm IDC. Revenue in the market dropped to $10.9 billion in the quarter, ...
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Hitachi said Monday it will officially support Amazon Web Services as part of its cloud solution offerings, a victory for Amazon over rival Microsoft Azure. Amazon and Microsoft have long been locked in competition for the Japanese cloud ...
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The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company’s server business is growing, said IDC in its first quarter report on the worldwide server market. Dell’s share of worldwide server revenue reached 18.5 percent ...
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Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by customers slowed sales, according to research firm IDC. Revenue in the market dropped to US$10.9 ...
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Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices. A fresh batch of dire forecasts for the hardware market came out this week, yet tech stocks have ...
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Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
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AMD has released two Opteron-X quad-core server microprocessors, codenamed Kyoto, which will compete squarely against Intel's Atom offerings. The processors are intended for the burgeoning microserver market and will enable AMD to offer ...
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Intel rival AMD has slipped up in terms of microprocessor market share, according to box-counting analysts IC Insights, with Qualcomm and Samsung leapfrogging it into second and third place respectively. Strong sales of tablet computers ...
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As overall server market revenue and shipments declined in the first quarter, both Dell and Cisco Systems managed growth while enterprise stalwarts Hewlett-Packard and IBM struggled in the headwinds. Worldwide server shipments declined ...
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Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
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IBM is said to be selling its x86 server business to Lenovo, the Chinese company which bought IBM's PC business. It is thought that the x86 part of IBM's total server business represents about a third of the server division's $15 billion ...
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IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market. IBM is the third-largest seller of x86 servers by factory revenue, with 15.7% of the global market in 2012, ...
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Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. IBM ...
Huawei Technologies' enterprise division further ramped up its European presence by gaining certification to run SAP's HANA in-memory platform on its servers. Deals with SAP and other big software vendors will be key for Huawei to succeed ...
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Huawei’s enterprise division is ramping up its European presence, following an announcement last week that SAP has certified the company’s servers to run its HANA in-memory platform. Such deals with SAP and other big software ...
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