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HP Rolls Out Its POD Mobile Data Center at Gartner Expo No Title While Hewlett-Packard first began talking about the POD mobile data center in July, the company officially rolled out the container at the 2008 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in October. No Title A fully loaded HP POD container measures 8 by 40 feet and can […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Hewlett-Packard is beginning to roll out its new mobile data center called the POD or Performance Optimized Data Center, which the IT giant hopes will compete against similar high-density, mobile container offerings from IBM, Sun Microsystems and others. HP first announced the POD in July, but the company is now beginning to […]

The growing presence of low-cost notebooks, such as the Asus Eee PC and the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, helped the worldwide PC market grow by double digits in the third quarter of 2008, but the growing financial crisis in the United States is continuing to have an impact, according to IDC. For the third quarter, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – When it comes to building out cloud computing infrastructures in the next two years, two of the world’s largest and most formidable IT companies – Google and Microsoft – are preparing to pour money and resources into developing significantly different models of how this type of computing should look and feel. While […]

While virtualization, especially in the context of virtualization within x86 hardware, remains one of the most important technologies being considered by IT managers right now, the challenges that virtualization will present in the next decade require strategic planning now. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 in Orlando, Fla., the research firm’s analysts were detailing a vision […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-Hewlett-Packard and Dell retained their status as the world’s two largest suppliers of desktops and notebooks despite the global economic downturn and increased competition from Acer and other low-cost laptop vendors. In the third quarter of 2008, HP shipped nearly 14.8 million PCs and retained its spot as the world’s top supplier of desktops […]

ORLANDO, Fla.-When it comes to the future of cloud computing, CEOs John Chambers and Larry Ellison have different visions of what this technology can do for enterprise computing. While Oracle’s Ellison threw cold water on the cloud computing hype at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in September, Cisco’s Chambers embraced the concept of cloud computing at […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – While many enterprises might try to cut down IT expenses in the next year as Wall Street’s financial crisis continues, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is looking to invest in his own company’s information technology. During his Oct. 14 keynote address at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo, Chambers said Cisco will increase its […]

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Unveil the SPARC Enterprise T5440 Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Unveil the SPARC Enterprise T5440 No Title The SPARC Enterprise T5440: Front No Title The SPARC Enterprise T5440: Front, Right No Title The SPARC Enterprise T5440: Front, Top No Title Thank You!

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out a jointly developed midrange system, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, which is based on Sun’s UltraSPARC T2 plus processor and is designed to run database and CRM applications. With the new T5440 system, Sun and Fujitsu are looking to bring a midrange offering into the midmarket and enterprise […]

When Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, the two largest suppliers of x86 processors for PCs and servers, report their 2008 third-quarter financial results in a few days, industry watchers will be looking for signs of how those numbers will reflect the ongoing financial crisis and its impact on the IT industry in the coming months. […]

While worldwide semiconductor revenue is still expected to top $280 billion this year, the ongoing financial crisis on Wall Street and falling prices for dynamic RAM memory chips are forcing iSuppi to reduce its annual forecast for the industry. On Oct. 9, the iSuppli research firm trimmed its 2008 revenue growth forecast for the semiconductor […]