Oracle System Sales Rebound, Underpin Future Cloud
Four years ago, software giant Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and got into the systems business. Sun's business was in decline, and kept falling at a steep and steady rate ...Full Article
X86 System Sales Grow, Everything Else Shrinks
Sales of servers have always been tied very tightly to the regional and global economies and the ups and downs of various industries. But with the relentless pace of ...Full Article
HP Will Chase IBM Accounts To Grow Datacenter Biz
Sales of servers, storage, switching, software, and services at Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Group were up a smidgen in its most recent quarter, but like its peers in the IT space, ...Full Article
Systems Trumping Humans In Foreign Exchange
The world is increasingly being shaped by computers, and nowhere is that more evident than in the financial space. Although much of the advanced algorithm action has taken place ...Full Article
Servers Slow And Switches Stall At Cisco
Every innovative product finds its natural place in the market, and that seems to have happened with the Unified Computing System, a converged server-network platform that Cisco Systems launched ...Full Article
Efficiency Gains, Cloud Hold Down IT Spending Growth
There is pent up demand for IT infrastructure upgrades as systems are aging in the datacenters of the world, and that is pushing up demand for hardware and software. ...Full Article
Financial, Government Sectors Lift Q4 For Juniper
Intel and IBM may be experiencing weaker-than-expected revenues from the enterprise sector, but switch and router maker Juniper Networks had a nice bump from enterprises and beat Wall Street's ...Full Article
Hardware Stall Continues For IBM In Q4
The hardware business at IBM has fallen on hard times in recent months, and the difficulties continued for Big Blue as it wrapped up 2013. And so IBM's new ...Full Article
Datacenter Lifts Intel In 2013, But Can It Repeat In 2014?
It is easy to predict what the big cloud builders and hyperscale datacenter operators are going to do: They are going to build more glasshouses and buy or build ...Full Article
Gartner Trims Forecasts, But IT Budget Growth Still Good
The first thing anyone wants to know when the new year kicks off is will this one be better than the last one. You can't know this ahead of ...Full Article