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Lenovo Can’t Get Enough of HP and Dell’s Market Share
Lenovo has made some tremendous gains over the past few years. The Chinese hardware giant is the third biggest player in the worldwide consumer market, and is the largest manufacturer of notebooks on the planet. These light-weight, affordable laptops add up to a very big market that Lenovo is not neglecting, even as it steps ...
IBM’s New Mainframe Beats Performance Records with World’s Strongest CPU
IBM, the dominant in the mainframe market, just unveiled the technological pinnacle of its 48 years of experience in enterprise computing – the new z Enterprise EC12, powered by the world’s most powerful microprocessor. zNext, the 5.5 GHz CPU that we’ve learned about less than a week ago, is the heart of the new system ...
Software-Defined Networking Didn’t Appear Overnight: VMworld Networking Panel
Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman hosted a networking panel with three industry execs at VMworld this week. Big Switch’s VP of engineering Howie Xu, Broadcom vice president of storage and strategy Greg Scherer and Infineta’s Haseeb Budhani gave their take on what’s going on in the network today (full video below). Xu, who ran VMware’s network ...
QLogic Growth Continues in FCoE
QLogic is citing new studies from both the Dell’Oro Group and Crehan Research that verify the company has increased its share of the the Fibre Channel Over Ethernet market in the second quarter of 2012. According to the research firms’ two separate reports the company generated more than 18 percent more revenue in the period than ...
What’s Hot at VMworld Right Now: Octopus, HP Integration and SDN
On Day 2 of VMworld 2012, Project Octopus got a new name. VMware’s under-development collaboration tool was unveiled this week as Horizon Data, a key component of a new integrated management platform that brings together a number of different projects the company has been working throughout past few months. During an interview in May 2011 ...
Postmedia’s Anil Sedha Gives Us an Inside Look: The Tech Behind His Publication
Anil Sedha holds the title of mid-range services and storage supervisor at Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper by circulation. At VMworld this year he stopped by theCube to talk things over with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante – full video below. Sedha’s job description covers his responsibility for Postmedia’s backend environment, as well the subscription-based CSM service that ...
Election Year, Volatile Market Bring More Outsourcing Firms to US [Report]
The outsourcing market is becoming more volatile due to global economic circumstances such as the European debt crisis, a recent market report by the Everest Group concluded, but the big names are also facing a different kind of pressure. The top players have all started hiring more aggressively in the US in an effort to ...
VMworld 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up
Cube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down to reflect on the main highlights from Day 1 of VMworld 2012, providing an overview of the company and the rest of the market in this emerging era of data infrastructure. Vellante first brings up the CEO Roundtable, which featured EMC’s Joe Tucci, VMware chief Pat ...
IBM Takes On SAP, Oracle with Latest Buy
Big Blue is taking on SAP and Oracle with the acquisition of Kenexa, a provider of HR consultancy and services that plays in the same pond as Success Factors. IBM agreed to pay $46 per Kenexa share, 42 percent more than the stock’s closing price on Friday and just 22 cents more than what KNXA ...
It’s Official: Avamar In, vSphere Data Recovery Out
Earlier this month sources in the channel leaked that EMC and VMware will make a move to align their data center software agendas by integrating the storage vendor’s Avamar DR software with the 5.1 release of vSphere, and today the rumors were confirmed. The two companies released a joint announcement that includes some more details ...