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IBM introduce preconfigured analytics servers

IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.
IBM rolls out a virtual desktop infrastructure package

IBM is working through its top 100 resellers world wide to roll out a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) package.
IBM refreshes CloudBurst line with Power7 chips

IBM has refreshed its CloudBurst products for building a virtualised private cloud, adding configurations based on its Power7 processor on top of the x86-based systems it already offered.
IBM unveils Power7 servers with virtualisation features

With a promise of better performance, lower total cost of ownership, and optimum features for virtualisation, IBM announced the launch of its new IBM Power7 system servers, which builds on the successes of its predecessor.
IBM VMControl falls short of virtual data centre goal

IBM is promising a single tool to manage all physical and virtual servers, but early versions of the software fall short of that goal.
Budget cuts could increase server failures, warns Gartner

Budget cuts could lead to server failure
IBM launches new range of SSDs

IBM is continuing its push into SSDs (solid-state drives), announcing flash drives for server and storage platforms as well as new software for allocating data among different types of drives.
Cisco to launch blade server next week

Cisco is set to reveal details of its "unified computing" initiative said to include a blade server code-named California.
IBM to buy server consolidation company

IBM is set to acquire virtualisation vendor Transitive Corporation, whose software lets applications run on multiple platforms, even if they have been designed for a single type of microprocessor and operating system.
Nortel offers more UC bundles

Nortel Networks is expanding the number of unified communications (UC) starter bundles it sells in order to give organisations an even greater chance to try IP-based telephony.

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Top 10 Cisco rivals

Competition is only getting tougher for Cisco as it continues to expand in 30 or so new markets while attempting to maintain growth in its core routing and switching businesses.
Why Rock was doomed

News that Sun has axed its Rock server chip product shouldn't have come as a surprise according to analysts - it was doomed from the outset.
Blade servers vs. rack servers

In the world of datacentre computing, there's a lot of contention over whether deploying rackable servers is better than deploying blade servers to host consolidated or virtualised applications.
LSI's waters

LSI Logic has bought Agere and is getting out of the mobility and consumer businesses to concentrate on storage and networking-focussed activities. It wants to supply more high-value components to storage (and networking) OEMs.
OpenVMS apps face uncertain migration path

Later this week, HP will stop selling new AlphaServer systems, the hardware platform long used to support the venerable OpenVMS operating system. But HP's migration strategy isn't the same as the software vendors' -- which might make life tricky for users.
VMware beyond the basics (part 2)

In part two of this two-series article, we see VMware zeroing in on the virtualisation layer to create a more flexible, highly available and manageable framework.
IBM disses EMC virtualisation

Ahead of EMC's product launch today IBM has kindly issued a statement asserting it's way, way ahead of EMC in the virtualisation stakes. However, and it's no small however, IBM leaves out VMware sales. These surely make IBM's mainframe and iSeries and pSeries partitioning numbers look trivial.
Moving toward object storage devices

What's wrong with SAN and NAS is that it?s not about files, it?s not about blocks, it?s about - or should be about - objects.
IBM's X366 Xeon server has no L3 cache but is faster. How come?

We asked IBM project manager Donn Bullock how the company's Hurricane chipset achieves its 38 per cent performance boost without L3 cache.
Tivoli plans to be Big Blue's value-add

A push into IT service management is on the way but can Tivoli build brand recognition and avoid losing its identity as it becomes just another part of the IBM package?

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