Tag: infrastructure
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HP Enterprise Services Business to Cut 9,000 Jobs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) will cut 9,000 jobs in its HP Enterprise Services Business division, the company has announced, as the result of a data center consolidation to move its infrastructure onto its own Converged Infrastructure product lines. The workforce reduction, which comes two years after HP announced its acquisition of IT services firm EDS, will consolidate… Read more
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HP Knocks IBM Out of Number One Server Position
HP knocked IBM out of the top server spot in revenues with $3.4 billion and 31.5 percent of market share, according to Gartner’s new market share report. And HP is claiming that it’s selling more servers because of its converged infrastructure story, its broad product portfolio and because it’s HP (which) “allows us to win… Read more
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Google, VMware Partner for Cloud Development, Portability
Google is partnering with VMware on what the companies are calling cloud portability – technologies that make it easy for Java developers to use their standard tools to develop web applications. The partnership falls under the Google App Engine for Business, a set of technologies that enable companies to create and deploy their own applications… Read more
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Juniper Initiative Looks to Simplify Data Center Networking
Categories: NetworkingJuniper Networks officials plan to continue flattening the data center networking infrastructure as they move toward a single-tiered offering starting sometime in 2011. During a news conference and Webcast May 17, Juniper executives outlined the company’s 3-2-1 strategy, saying they are anticipating the collapse of the networking infrastructure to a single layer in 2011 through… Read more
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HP to Pay Incentives to SAP Customers That Migrate from Sun to HP
Hewlett-Packard is offering Oracle SunSet Program incentives for partners who move customers off Oracle Sun SPARC servers for their SAP implementations to an HP infrastructure instead. HP made the announcement at the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando, Fla., this week in the form of the HP Migration in a Box. The offering provides a comprehensive… Read more
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EMC Targets Cisco, Brocade Partnerships for Networking Strategy
Categories: News and TrendsBOSTON – EMC is planning to roll out a host of storage networking products and services later this year as part of its initiative in enabling the evolution of private clouds. At the EMC World 2010 show here May 10, EMC officials announced a converged networking strategy aimed at data centers. The strategy includes expanded… Read more