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Cisco Boosted Profit, Sales in Q2 While Cutting Costs

Cisco's earnings per share rose more than 48 percent from a year earlier Full Story »
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Greenpeace Scorecard Documents Greener Enterprise Offerings

Greenpeace's latest 'Cool IT' report highlights technology products that help other industries go green

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Oracle Stakes Claim in R with Advanced Analytics Launch

A new software release adds support for the open-source statistical modeling language

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Red Hat Launches Storage Appliance for Amazon's Cloud

The open-source company wants enterprises to move their network-attached storage to the cloud

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Large Data Center Coming to India, As Regional Demand Booms

Tulip Data Center Services is setting up the largest data center in the country so far

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Clues About HP's Gen8 Servers Leaked on Its Website

Hewlett-Packard's Proliant Gen8 servers will be based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 chips, according to HP's website

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SeaMicro Puts 256 Xeon Cores in Server

SeaMicro, which sold only Atom-based servers, adds a Xeon microserver to its stable

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Oracle Handed Setback in HP Itanium Case

Oracle had cited fraud by HP to defend its decision not to support Itanium in its software

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Tilera Targets Intel, ARM with 36-Core Server Chip

Tilera claims its 36-core chip outperforms Intel's Sandy Bridge chips in performance-per-watt

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Wall Street Beat: Enterprise Spending Helps Mixed Quarter for Tech

Google's revenue fell short of analysts' high expectations, but sales of enterprise IT boost results for IBM, Intel and Microsoft.

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Microsoft's Revamped System Center Focuses on Managing the Cloud

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the latest version of System Center, which promises to make it easier to manage virtual and cloud environments. Here, Microsoft officials, industry analysts and customers talk about how the new version lets you better manage both private cloud and public cloud services as well virtualization platforms from multiple vendors.

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French Antitrust Regulator Rejects HP's Demand That Oracle Continue Itanium Support

It will continue investigating HP's complaint that Oracle prices and support policies harm HP's Itanium server business

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Grow Your Data Center with Colocation

Brian Burch knew the moment had arrived. Two of his data center's key services -- availability and business continuity -- needed fast and dramatic improvement. Design and location limitations meant that his company's existing data center couldn't be upgraded to the levels necessary to provide the improvements in functionality and performance that he required.

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Dell: PCs Not Under Threat From Tablets Or Smartphones

The PC is not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better experience, Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday.

 
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The nature of the blade platform makes system management, monitoring and provisioning easy and efficient. Access this resource to learn how blade migration will save your data center time and money while increasing performance.
With business activities of all types increasingly dependent on a strong information technology foundation, companies find themselves struggling to keep pace with constant technological advances.
Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.
This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Exchange Server 2010 on vSphere.
The objective of this white paper is to compare the performance of PowerVM virtualization technologies on POWER7 processor-based server platforms against VMware vSphere 4.1 update 11 on comparable Intel x86 platforms.
The complexity, cost and technological bloat of traditional Java EE application servers are often barriers to running a lean and efficient IT organization. Increased need for scalability and rapid application delivery are driving businesses to reconsider the platform they use for application deployment. By combining the portability and agility of the Spring framework with a lightweight application server, your organization can meet business demands while staying within budget constraints. VMware vFabric™ tc Server is a modern, lightweight Java application server based on Apache Tomcat. It improves developer productivity, control and manageability-and is the most flexible platform for virtualizing Java applications and workloads for the cloud. View this webcast to learn about real-world examples of companies that have adopted VMware vFabric tc Server and how to plan for future cloud deployments.
How do you manage performance for apps with 100 to 500 users but no consistent peak periods? If you don't ensure sub-second response at all times, your help desk will get flooded with complaints. But there's no budget for more servers to handle random load spikes. So what's the solution? Elastic load balancing with VMware vSphere™ and the VMware vFabric™ Cloud Application Platform. pace of change. View this webcast to learn how to cost-effectively run your applications & balance your load across virtual machines.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Virtualizing business-critical applications is an essential step in your journey to the cloud. Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and SharePoint, and Oracle applications, are often the backbone of business IT. The benefits of virtualizing these applications extend far beyond mere consolidation. Understanding how VMware improves quality of service and agility while reducing costs will help you make the case for taking virtualization to the next level in your company.
Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
Real-time, global data updates have become a critical business requirement for financial-services firms. Overnight or hourly batch jobs can cause erroneous results and missed opportunities. New regulatory requirements dictate real-time reporting of liquidity; traders want access to real-time market and risk positions; and the time windows for relevancy of cross-selling and marketing opportunities are getting shorter. To deal with these issues and new requirements, firms need to be able to react quickly to changes in data. Quick reactions require near-instant access to data, risk analysis and deeper computational analysis for effective decision making. View this webcast to learn how to achieve real-time awareness by managing ever-increasing data volumes and transaction rates.
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