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Latest results of a small UK survey of Heads of IT in the commercial and public sectors reveals that cloud computing is getting a lukewarm reception.
IDC has recently announced the revenue in the worldwide server market has increased 12.1% year-on-year to $11.9 billion in the first quarter of 2011.
Cisco has been going through a rough time of late, particularly in terms of its product lines, including getting back to basics – producing switches and routers.
Latest research from European Data Centres on the Q1 2011 has shown some improvement although demand remains tentative.
Awareness of the cloud continues to dominate CIOs’ thinking for 2011; however security is top of their concerns along with wider risk factors.
Latest results for the first quarter for 2011 in the relative market shares for the core routers, edge routers and switches, Ethernet services, Edge routers and carrier Ethernet switches have s
Datacentres require two key elements to be as cost effective as possible; firstly located in a cool environment as they produce enormous amounts of heat energy and secondly with a good affordable power resource.
Enough has been written and talked about over the past few years regarding the emphasis on virtualisation and cloud computing, but whatever happened to the network?
Force10 announces S7000 and ZettaScale core switching products.
Leo Apotheker has recently announced the strategic vision for HP after 6 months in the role as CEO.
As a reflection of the world economy, global IT spending has improved in 2010 and will continue to do so in 2011.
John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO, outlined their priorities for the coming year or so in a recent broadcast. The priorities are collaboration, datacentre virtualisation, cloud computing, business architectures and video services.
VMware, the server and desktop virtualisation software provider saw profits and revenues increase in the last quarter of 2010. VMware revenues were up 37% to $836 million and net income more than doubled to $120 million.
Maintaining the health and performance of the network is critical, and Pari Networks will enable Cisco to deliver smarter, more proactive services that can identify potential network problems before they happen.
A recent report from Quocirca indicates that virtualised servers and datacentres have an advantage over standard platforms with regard to security.
Converged infrastructure is the bringing together of a number of different products and technologies, both hardware and software, the result of which can create greater efficiency, ease of management and/or cost savings.
Businesses are engaging with the Cloud, however so are the bad guys; the cyber criminals.
HP has delivered some excellent results for the last quarter; sales rising 8% to $33 billion, despite the departure of Mark Hurd and the lawsuit between Oracle and SAP, where current HP CEO Leo Apotheker came from.
The future of IT is based on the integration of networking, servers and storage, so Oracle might want to go on the acquisition trial in order to achieve this.
The recent disappointing estimates of growth from Cisco could be down to a number of different factors; specific to Cisco or the industry as a whole.
Data centre innovation is not just about the latest HP G7 ProLiant servers, Cisco routers and switches and all manner of network hardware, including server virtualisation and power management, but is about saving energy through innovation.
In a global study by Cisco, 60% of workers believe there is no longer a need for an office in order to be productive – work is what you do, not where you are.
The future of IT lies in the ability of the network infrastructure to become as automated as possible according to VMware’s CEO, Paul Maritz.
According to a number of IT experts the adoption of cloud computing is being hyped out of all proportion.
As organisations have become more competitive and have access to similar information, they are turning to the massive amounts of company data to analyse that information to discover trends, statistics and decision-making results.
Cisco has invested in its ASA system over a number of years and here are some additional features that you may find useful.
With Mark Hurd, ex-CEO of HP, set to join Oracle, a question has been floated by some industry pundits – what about Oracle buying HP?
In 2020, the expertise required in the IT department will be different from today; understanding and harnessing those skills will determine future success.
HP and Dell continue to bid for 3PAR in what is becoming a battle of wills and perhaps pride rather than logic, but the question is why?
The economy and the importance of IT have got caught in a business dilemma. Power is essential to run data centres, however the cost of power is outpacing the hardware, but the mantra of ‘do more, with less’ still prevails.
Consumer gadgets are getting all the attention these days; however there are some new products and technologies that will solve problems in the datacentre.
HP has announced data centre switching and security products which will simplify server connectivity and protect core data as network hardware infrastructure becomes converged.
Cisco has recently conducted some research on 15,000 people’s views on IT technology and predictions for the future. The research included people in the public sector, healthcare, education, marketing and businesses.
In the past it was the accepted wisdom to create datacentres that were future proof, now the smarter decision-making revolves around maximum efficiency that fits the needs of today, with flexibility in mind.
A recent HP survey summarises the current IT situation as a position where the IT department is unable to drive new business innovation because the majority of funding is spent on operating the current network.
HP is cutting 9000 jobs, but is also considering hiring 6000 new staff. It’s all part of the shift in IT skills due to the increasing automation of datacentres, so that IT is now looking for people with more sales and delivery experience rather than hands-on IT skills.
HP ProLiant servers and BladeSystem servers have been selling well in the past quarter - up 54% to $3 billion.
Gartner comes out with some interesting facts and figures; and their latest research is no exception. They also recommend an action plan of what Network Managers need to do today, in the next 18 months and the longer term.
VMware sales in the first quarter of the year up to the end of March 2010 were up 34.7% from last year’s first quarter.
Is your network secure from attacks by botnets? Are your computer systems already compromised and ready to be activated by cybercriminals?
A year on from the arrival of the HP ProLiant G6 server, HP has announced today the next generation of server – the HP ProLiant G7 server.
These are the two hot topics currently on the lips of everyone associated with IT networks management. Server virtualisation is an enabler of cloud computing, but also one of the best alternatives to the cloud.
There have been news stories abounding around Cisco and HP becoming real rivals in the server and networking infrastructure markets.
Cisco Systems last quarter results show a profit increase by 23%. This is Cisco’s first quarterly sales increase since 2008.
Juniper and Polycom. Cisco and Tandberg. Sun and Oracle.
Latest research from the IT market analysis company, Forrester, indicates that tech spending will increase 8.1% globally compared to 2009 – rising above $1.6 trillion for 2010.
Virtualisation is one of the hot technologies for 2010, according to Gartner, which reports that global revenues for virtualisation software totalled $1.8 billion in 2009 and will rise to about $2.1 billion in 2010.
All network manufacturers are not the same – changing or considering alternatives can save significant amounts of money.
The economy is coming out of recession and there are mixed messages from various sources, some being optimistic and other urging caution.
What are the strategically important technologies that need to be considered for 2010?
The IT industry will be mentioned in the draft climate treaty that will form the basis for negotiations at the UN summit in Copenhagen.
Goldman Sachs increased its 2010 outlook for global IT spending, doubling the growth prediction from 2% to 4%.
Hardware.com has just launched VMware, server virtualisation software, in order to deliver business infrastructure virtualisation for our customers.
HP’s acquisition of 3Com, scheduled for early 2010, for $2.7 billion in cash is in direct competition to Cisco, and blurs the market of who dominates what – server or networking infrastructure.
The new virtual computing environment coalition, called Acadia, will accelerate virtualisation and private cloud infrastructures.
If you feel that you have had to use Solaris-based applications to run your infrastructure and consequently have had to have Sun hardware, then you need to know that HP has developed a porting environment to automate Solaris to Linux migration.
In the USA, 53 people were indicted on a variety of charges related to a phishing scam; added to this, another 47 were arrested in Egypt. This was a result of the biggest international cybercrime investigation ever.
The mass of cables that are required to connect all the network hardware in the data centre is causing cable chaos and additional costs.
Starent Networks are strong in the mobile data networks and this gives Cisco an "in" to the migration of broadband to mobile – of 3G to 4G platforms, effectively the network infrastructure to develop the mobile internet.
Recent research from an IDC survey of 2000 datacentre owners in 14 countries indicates that most of them think that their datacentre is in dire need of an overhaul.
Emerson Electric, the company that has power, climate control and other automation businesses appliances and tools, will now have hardware and software with the buy out of Avocent.
In a recent research report from Rhetorik, titled IT and Telecoms Investment in 2009, Future Plans and Trends, substantial budgets have been revealed in a number of key product and service areas. The areas of investment were laptops/notebooks, desktop PCs, servers and the core network products of routers, switches and hubs.
The HP ProLiant G5 has ceased to be manufactured by HP and at current run rates there will be no G5s available for purchase by the end of September. This should come as no surprise, as HP has been indicating that there will be an upgrade to the HP ProLiant G6. Hardware.com was the first to announce the new G6 server when it was launched in April and we had all the G6 versions on our website at that time.
84% of large organisations, especially those in emerging markets, have not cancelled any IT projects since October 2008. 35% of IT Directors said they would increase investments in virtualisation, 32% said there would be increased investment in green IT, and 7% would invest more in cloud computing.
Cisco Systems, the networking giant is trying to get into the server market as we all know – they call it network convergence or the Unified Computing System (UCS). Goldman Sachs conducted a survey in July this year which estimated that Cisco will sell approximately 10,000 blade servers in 2009 and 100,000 in 2010. This will represent about 1% share of the worldwide server market.
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