Private Azure Clouds Come To Dell Hardware
Signaling its shift to a "converged infrastructure" model, Microsoft announced a series of moves this week designed to flesh out its Azure cloud offering, including a preconfigured cloud appliance ...Full Article
September Sales Slowdown Hits Big Blue
IBM has made no secret that it wants to shed unprofitable hardware units, and it no doubt wishes it had been able to do some divesting ahead of its ...Full Article
IBM Systems Get Breathing Room With Globalfoundries Chip Deal
The much-rumored sale of IBM's chip manufacturing business has come to pass with Big Blue forging an agreement with Globalfoundries, the former fab business of AMD and a long-time ...Full Article
Hyperconverged Systems Go Mainstream
In a way, Hewlett-Packard, through its LeftHand Networks storage acquisition, was one of the pioneers of the hyperconverged systems market, although it didn't talk about it at the time ...Full Article
Chip Designs Might Be On Table In IBM-Glofo Talks
IBM may again be moving closer to a long-anticipated exit from the semiconductor manufacturing business. According to a report in Bloomberg, IBM and Globalfoundries have resumed talks that broke ...Full Article
Tyan Ships First Non-IBM Power8 Server
The opening up of the Power chip architecture by IBM through the OpenPower Foundation has produced its first tangible, practical result, with Taiwanese motherboard and system maker Tyan getting ...Full Article
VCE Forges First All-Flash Vblock Stack
It is the fall and we are in the wake of the latest Xeon processor announcements from Intel, and that means it is time for system makers to hit ...Full Article
IBM Takes On Big Workloads With Power8 Enterprise Systems
Customers running big workloads on IBM's largest Power Systems servers got a preview this week of the high-end Power8 machines that the company will be rolling out over the ...Full Article
HP Breaks Itself Into Back Office And Front Office Halves
They could have called one Hewlett and the other one Packard, but instead, as HP breaks itself into two halves, it is calling the part that sells PCs and ...Full Article
IBM Accelerates Power8 Clusters With GPUs, FPGAs, And Flash
It is perhaps a lucky stroke of timing or perhaps by design that only days after Big Blue sold off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group ...Full Article
