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Blog:IBM And ARM Continue Their Collaboration – Major Win For ARM

Last week IBM and ARM Holdings Plc quietly announced a continuation of their collaboration on advanced process technology, this time with a stated goal of developing ARM IP optimized for IBM physical...

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Report:Optimize IT Infrastructure Around Key Workloads

Landscape: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

The inside-out approach of engineers focused on technology for its own sake must stop: Your business cares about outcomes and holistic services, not server, storage, and network technologies. For too...

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Blog:Oh No! Not Another VMworld Blog Post!

It was reported that sometime over the past weekend the number of tweets and blogs about VMworld exceeded Plankk’s limit (postulated by blogger Marvin Plankk, now confined to an...

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Blog:Recent Benchmarks Reinforce Scalability Of x86 Servers

Over the past months server vendors have been announcing benchmark results for systems incorporating Intel’s high-end x86 CPU, the E7, with HP trumping all existing benchmarks with their...

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Blog:HP’s Troubles Continue, But Does It Matter?

HP seems to be on a tear, bouncing from litigation with one of its historically strongest partners to multiple CEOs in the last few years, continued layoffs, and a recent massive write-down of its...

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Report:Voice Of The Customer: The Good, The Bad, And The Unwieldy Of DCIM Deployments

Customers Achieve ROI, But Configuration Is More Difficult Than Expected

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is rapidly emerging as a solution to help IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals improve data center operations and management. As...

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Blog:IBM Raises The Bar On Converged Infrastructure With PureFlex And PureApplication Integrated Offerings

IBM Jumps On CI With Both Feet Over the last couple of years, IBM, despite having a rich internal technology ecosystem and a number of competitive blade and CI offerings, has not had a comprehensive...

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Report:Avoid Tactical, Narrow IT Infrastructure Strategies

Strategic Plan: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

This report outlines Forrester's solution for IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to develop their IT infrastructure strategic plan for their facilities and the server, storage, and...

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Blog:Checking In With Cisco UCS – Continued Momentum, Decoupled From Corporate Malaise

I met recently with Cisco’s UCS group in San Jose to get a quick update on sales and maybe some hints about future development. The overall picture is one of rapid growth decoupled from...

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Blog:Oracle Cancels OpenSolaris – What’s The Big Deal?

There has been turmoil and angst recently in the 0pen source community of late over Oracle’s decision to cancel OpenSolaris. Since this community can be expected to react violently anytime...

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Blog:Intel Steps On The Accelerator, Reveals Many Independent Core Road Map

While NVIDIA and to a lesser extent AMD (via its ATI branded product line) have effectively monopolized the rapidly growing and hyperbole-generating market for GPGPUs, highly parallel application...

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Blog:Verne Global And Colt Technology Show A Zero Carbon Data Center – It’s Real, Running, And Impressive In Iceland

Data centers, like any other aspect of real estate, follow the age-old adage of “location, location, location,” and if you want to build one that is really efficient in terms of energy...

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Blog:HP Vs. Oracle – Despite Verdict In Favor Of HP, The End Is Not Yet In Sight

This week the California courts handed down a nice present for HP — a verdict confirming that Oracle was required to continue to deliver its software on HP’s Itanium-based Integrity...

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Blog:VMware Pushes Hypervisor And Management Features With vSphere 5 Announcement

After considerable speculation and anticipation, VMware has finally announced vSphere 5 as part of a major cloud infrastructure launch, including vCloud Director 1.5, SRM 5 and vShield 5. From our...

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Blog:AMD Quietly Rolls Out hUMA – Potential Game-Changer for Parallel Computing

Background — High Performance Attached Processors Handicapped By Architecture The application of high-performance accelerators, notably GPUs, GPGPUs (APUs in AMD terminology) to a...

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Blog:Intel Developer Forum (IDF) - Cloud. And Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Oh, Yes, Did I Mention “Cloud”?

I just attended IDF and I’ve got to say, Intel has certainly gotten the cloud message. Almost everything is centered on clouds, from the high-concept keynotes to the presentations on low-level...

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Report:The Software-Defined Data Center Is The Future Of Infrastructure Architecture

Vision: The IT Infrastructure Playbook

Over the last two decades, IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams have been in a race with complexity. As business requirements have mounted, generations of technology have been implemented to...

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Blog:ARM-Based Servers – Looming Tsunami Or Just A Ripple In The Industry Pond?

From nothing more than an outlandish speculation, the prospects for a new entrant into the volume Linux and Windows server space have suddenly become much more concrete, culminating in an immense...

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Blog:Data Center Power And Efficiency – Public Enemy #1 Or The Latest Media Punching Bag?

This week, the New York Times ran a series of articles about data center power use (and abuse) “Power, Pollution and the Internet” (http://nyti.ms/Ojd9BV) and “Data Barns in a Farm...

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Blog:The Mainstreaming of UCS - Cisco Announces Microsoft SQL Server Alliance

Entering into a new competitive segment, especially one dominated by major players with well-staked out turf, requires a level of hyperbole, dramatic positioning and a differentiable product. Cisco...

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Tool:The SAP Benchmark Shows A Consistent Multi-Year Gap In Performance

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Blog:Fujitsu – Ready To Play In North America?

Fujitsu? Who? I recently attended Fujitsu’s global analyst conference in Boston, which gave me an opportunity to check in with the best kept secret in the North American market. Even Fujitsu...

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Blog:AMD Acquires SeaMicro — Big Bet On Architectural Shift For Servers

At its recent financial analyst day, AMD indicated that it intended to differentiate itself by creating products that were advantaged in niche markets, with specific mention, among other segments, of...

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Blog:Oracle Releases Solaris 11 — Game Changer Or Place Keeper?

Oracle recently announced the availability of Solaris 11 Express, the first iteration of its Solaris 11 product cycle. The feature set of this release is along the lines promised by Oracle at their...

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Blog:Interesting Hardware Products At VMworld: NEC FT x86 Servers And Xsigo I/O Virtualization

Not a big surprise, but VMworld was overwhelmingly focused on software. I was concerned that great hardware might get lost in the software noise, so I looked for hardware standouts using two...