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  • HP Wins 3PAR, What's Next for Dell?

    Dell should pick up the pieces and come up with a new strategy. In case of 3PAR, Dell took a proactive step to move into a market ahead of HP and gain a strategic advantage for a change. Unfortunately for Dell, these acquisitions have a way of making headlines and tipping off competitors like HP - allowing them an opportunity to take that strategic advantage away.

  • IBM code unfetters virtual workloads

    IBM has cracked the problem of moving virtual machines across different servers, without using shared storage.The technology, sprouting from the Reservoir (Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers) program, offers a way to move a live, virtualized workload from one server to another, without the need for the two locations to share the same storage space.

  • Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says

    HP led in enterprise disk products but won't get a big boost from 3Par's small sales total. Factory revenue in the worldwide disk storage system market grew 20.7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, IDC reported. The revenue grew to almost US$6.8 billion from about $5.6 billion from the same quarter in 2009.

  • SAS Rolls Out Predictive Analytics For Business Users

    SAS Institute on Thursday announced a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics software.It refers to the practice of crunching existing data sets in an effort to determine patterns and predict future outcomes.

  • Dell Launches Partner Storage Summit Initiative

    Dell India, in an effort to deepen its engagement with its partners launched a completely new initiative – Dell Consultive - A Partner Storage Summit, an initiative to build conversations between the partners focused on storage solutions and Dell’s storage specialist

  • Finally, HP ousts DELL to sign definitive merger agreement with 3PAR

    The agreement was expected after Dell said earlier that it wouldn't try to match HP's latest offer of $33 per share, ending a two-week bidding war that captivated the high-tech industry.HP expects to close the deal by the end of the calendar year. As a result of the bidding war HP has ended up paying double the price that Dell bid for 3PAR in its initial offer.

  • Microsoft to VMware: Windows is still relevant in Virtualization era

    Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that OS are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.Microsoft is arguing that customers now have more options than just VMware when it comes to running mission-critical Microsoft applications such as Exchange.

  • Water Cooling Returns To IBM Mainframe

    IBM next will begin shipping a computer with something that customers have not seen in a new mainframe from the company since 1995 -- water cooling.Last water-cooled IBM mainframe computer family, the ES/9000, was unveiled in 1995

  • Check Point Bolsters VMware Security

    Check Point's Security Gateway software is now available in a virtual edition that is compatible with VMware virtual environments.

     

  • Blue Coat Brings In New CEO

    Blue Coat Systems has brought in a new CEO, spinning the change as a way to free up outgoing boss Brian Nesmith from the daily grind of managing the company to instead work on product strategy.