Wednesday - June 24, 2009
Software maker Oracle's results for its latest quarter topped Wall Street's forecast Tuesday, despite a 5 percent drop in sales and a 7 percent decline in profit. The company blamed the declines on the effects of a stronger dollar -- which makes deals done in other currencies translate into fewer greenbacks. Companies also have been shelling out less for new software because of the recession. Still, Oracle's chief financial officer, Jeff Epstein, said in a statement that Oracle executed "substantially better" than the company expected.
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Thursday - June 18, 2009
Less than three months after announcing a slew of products and services to propel its thrust into the data center market, Dell on Wednesday released several out-of-the-box virtualization solutions targeting both enterprises and SMBs. These are aimed at simplifying virtualization and helping customers cut their costs.
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Monday - June 15, 2009
IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management.
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Thursday - June 11, 2009
HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support.
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Friday - May 29, 2009
Dell said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 63 percent as the recession continued to crimp computer sales around the world. The results, coupled with a cautious outlook from the world's top PC seller, HP, indicate that the computer market has not improved much since last year's economic meltdown led to a holiday season that was the industry's worst stretch in six years.
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Wednesday - April 29, 2009
Sun Microsystems has reported a $201 million loss for Q3 2009, a significant increase over the loss of $34 million that it registered in the same quarter a year ago. At $2.6 billion, third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street's forecast of $2.86 million and was a steep drop from the $3.3 billion the company realized in Q3 2008.
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Tuesday - April 28, 2009
Brocade Communications Systems is deepening its ties with a powerful ally, IBM, forging a new distribution deal for Internet routers and switches at a time when bigger rival Cisco is straining some of its old relationships. Brocade and IBM announced Tuesday that IBM will help sell more Brocade products by rebranding them with IBM's own logo and pushing them out through IBM's sales force.
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Wednesday - April 15, 2009
Investors don't seem to totally buy Intel's proclamation that slumping personal computer sales have "bottomed out." The chip maker posted first-quarter profit Tuesday of $647 million, or 11 cents per share, that sailed past Wall Street's estimates. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting 3 cents per share.
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Saturday - April 11, 2009
On the surface, there doesn't seem to be much of a connection between the servers that run corporate data centers and a handheld video camera you use to film family vacations. Yet both have somehow become part of the master plan at Cisco Systems.Cisco is now expanding aggressively, using its hefty financial resources to go on the attack while other companies are just trying to survive.
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Wednesday - April 1, 2009
You do not need another diatribe on how tough the economy is and how the next tsunami is hitting IT departments. You have seen the signs and have to take necessary actions: budget cuts, pay cuts. You know the drill. However, bad times need not be all doom and gloom -- they can be times of opportunity for your IT department.
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Tuesday - March 31, 2009
Small- to medium-sized enterprises require that inventory, customer relationship management, sales and accounting applications be available beyond the LAN via the Internet. Local employees, telecommuters, business partners and customers must have unhindered access to critical applications or a company risks adversely affecting productivity and profitability.
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