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HP Beats Dell » The war for 3Par has ended, with HP being victorious over Dell. Despite signing on to a tentative agreement with Dell, 3...

Oracle Hires Mark Hurd » Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been busy lately, both in pursuing storage-vendor 3PAR (against competing suitor Dell) and in d...

Sorting Out Clouds of Data » There’s data and there’s more data. How does an ordinary person or enterprise sift through volumes of data and analyze t...

Never Break This Chain » It is almost a Star Trek scenario in the data center industry today: data flows almost seamlessly from one machine to an...

What Do The Skies Foretell? » Business is abuzz, and has been for a long time now, regarding the exciting possibilities of cloud computing. Whether it...

Wednesday, 8 Sep 2010

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HP Beats Dell

The war for 3Par has ended, with HP being victorious over Dell. Despite signing on to a tentative agreement with Dell, 3Par seemed more than willing to entertain back-and-forth bids from the two companies, leading ultimately to HP’s final bid that tossed Dell out of the competition.HP, for its part, is seeking to broaden its portfolio by adding the types of storage solutions that 3Par offers. As cited by Computer World (“Update: HP tops Dell with $1.6B bid for 3Par”), Forrester Research’s Andrew Reichman emphasizes this point: “HP's portfolio is disjointed and kind of incomplete,” and it needs more of a storage presence if it is to become an effective force at the enterprise level. Dell may have been in ... Read more

Oracle Hires Mark Hurd

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been busy lately, both in pursuing storage-vendor 3PAR (against competing suitor Dell) and in dealing with an executive-level shakeup. Amidst allegations of sexual harassment, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd resigned his position. Oracle, however, has taken advantage of this situation, picking up Hurd as co-president of the struggling company.Although Hurd resigned from his position at HP following the sexual harassment allegations, Network World (“Oracle hires Mark Hurd as co-president”) reports that an investigation performed by both HP’s general legal counsel and by outside counsel concluded that the allegations did not violate the company’s policies. Nevertheless, the investigation did uncover violations of “HP's standards of business conduct.” According to DataCenterDynamics (“Mark Hurd becomes Oracle president”), this misconduct included filing ... Read more

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IT News

Never Break This Chain

Rakesh Dogra | COMMENTS

It is almost a Star Trek scenario in the data center industry today: data flows almost seamlessly from one machine to another and from one country to another without cables and in the blink of an eye. It’s like the ... Read more

"V" Sign

Rakesh Dogra | COMMENTS

With the recent coming together of Verizon Business and VMware to deliver a new solution, enterprises can move applications to the cloud domain very swiftly and easily. The announcement came at VMworld 2010. Verizon Business’s CaaS, first launched in 2009, ... Read more

Dell on Par Power

Rakesh Dogra | COMMENTS

Dell’s leadership in the data center business is powerful, and its might just got stronger with their acquisition of 3PAR Inc. The purchase of 3PAR at a cost of $1.15 billion will bulk up Dell’s storage capacity with open, affordable, ... Read more

Design News

Berkeley Lab to Study Effects of Contamination on

Reliability | COMMENTS

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is preparing to study the effects of gaseous contamination on the operation of IT equipment. Currently, Berkeley Lab is seeking data center managers that would like to volunteer to assist in the study; these ... Read more

Traffic Management Solutions for the Changing Data

Best Practices | COMMENTS

As more and more companies begin moving their data centers to virtualized environments, selecting application delivery technology that complements the virtualized infrastructure becomes important. And if you've made a strategic decision to go virtual, shouldn't your traffic management and application ... Read more

Eenie Meenie in the Cloud

Best Practices | COMMENTS

The IT domain is abuzz about cloud computing and virtualization and how they can radically change a company’s IT DNA and. Today, IT managers are facing the additional challenge of deciding on which cloud to choose and, more importantly, whether ... Read more

Facilities News

Green Sentinel

Monitoring | COMMENTS

When you have monster diesel generators running in your neighborhood, it’s good to ponder their environmental impact. This is exactly what the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) is asking the residents of Columbia to do. Microsoft is planning to ... Read more

Catch the Apple as It Plays

Construction | COMMENTS

The address 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, will become famous as it plays host to Apple, which has just broken from tradition and announced live streaming of one of its famous media events. When Apple revealed its plans for its ... Read more

More Mercy

Construction | COMMENTS

The Sisters of Mercy Health System has a wide spectrum of services with 18 acute care hospitals clinics, three heart hospitals, and other health services. Established in 1986, Sisters of Mercy is now the ninth largest Catholic health-care system in ... Read more

Press Releases

Force10 Networks Opens New Innovation Center in Ol

Facilities Press Releases | COMMENTS

Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today formally unveiled its new Innovation Center, a 44,000-square-foot facility that houses its India headquarters, development lab ... Read more

Verizon and VMware to Launch Enterprise-Class Hybr

Design Press Releases | COMMENTS

At VMworld 2010 on Tuesday (Aug. 31), Verizon Business and VMware unveiled a new enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that will enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. The new solution, underpinned ... Read more

Fujitsu positioned as a ‘Leader’ in Desktop and He

IT Press Releases | COMMENTS

Fujitsu announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “leaders” quadrant of two Magic Quadrant reports: Help Desk Outsourcing, Europe, and Desktop Outsourcing, Europe. The reports were published in July 2010 and are “evaluations based on completeness of ... Read more

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