Obviously such a growing market for digital storage would appeal to major storage players such as EMC, Dell, IBM, HDS, HP, NetApp and Oracle.
It is a niche player, with an anomalous operating system, trying to survive in a market dominated by giant corporations like Compaq, Dell and IBM.
Eager to innovate, it began to study companies like Dell, IBM, Cisco, and Best Buy, that had used social media to launch new products and services.
One of them is penetration of the enterprise market with solid state drives, an area hotly contested now by big storage and computing players like EMC, Dell and IBM.
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In addition to the about 14, 000 people attending the show -- a record, according to Microsoft -- there are about 300 vendors hawking their wares on the exhibit floor, including Compaq, Computer Associates International, Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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From complex accounting systems to the stuff that tracks employee performance, compensation and inventories, he'll bring it all together and run it for customers in his data centers, saving them the headache and upfront cost of buying hardware from Ellison's shop, HP, Dell or IBM.
Numerous companies -- including Dell, IBM, Intel, and HP -- oppose the laws, as they see them giving Microsoft the power to not only drag them into court, but also futz with their supply chains. (There's bound to be some counterfeit software being used in Shenzhen, right?) As Microsoft's latest anti-piracy scheme unfolds, there should be plenty more legislative action to come.
Nvidia said it is working with VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, SuperMicro, and Citrix to support the technology.
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Most analysts back at the beginning of 2000s considered Apple a computer company and included it in the same silo as HP, Dell, and IBM.
Intel has deep influence over major OEMs such as Dell, HP and IBM.
According to IDC's Giusto, a major challenge for IBM is Dell's increasing dominance in the market.
Systems from Acer, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM and many additional channel and motherboard partners are expected on the market in the coming days and weeks.
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And the vendors that are the best established are new names like VA Linux and Penguin Computing, not old ones like IBM, Dell, and Gateway.
And we old-timers will struggle to tell our grandchildren how thrilling it was to first open that box with an Apple or IBM or Dell logo on the side.
Within a few years IT departments got the idea they could replace the big servers they'd bought from brand-name Silicon Valley firms with cheapies from Dell, HP and IBM.
Wall Street has already passed judgment on this, lopping half a trillion dollars in market value from eight giants the past year (Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Intel and AMD).
Excess inventory sold by several dozen big companies--including Home Depot, Dell Financial Services, IBM and Sharper Image--accounted for 4%-plus of gross merchandise sales in the first quarter, up from about zilch a year earlier.
CommVault regularly crops up in the Wall Street rumor mill as a potential target for the likes of Dell, HP or IBM, or some other IT giant looking to add to storage software assets.
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Wall Street already has passed judgment on this threat, lopping off half a trillion dollars in market value from eight giants in the past year (Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Intel and AMD).
More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.
In 2001, Hewlett-Packard made the first strategic mistake, the purchase of Compaq Computer that supposed to provide the company with the scale advantage in the PC market to compete effectively against Dell Computer (NASDAQ:DELL), IBM, and all sorts of emerging Asian competitors.
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For much of my professional career (IBM PC, Dell, Power Computing) I competed against Apple.
First, as my fellow Forbes contributor Peter Cohan points out, even if it is successful, the strategy will effectively make Dell a second-rate IBM.
The Spyder Trust ( SPY) is not far behind IBM, while Dell ( DELL) is up just 67% and Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) is down almost 23%.
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Disclosure: Endpoint has consulting relationships with Dell, HP, and IBM.
But longer term, competing against Apple ( AAPL), IBM ( IBM), Dell ( DELL) and others, HP will need innovation to succeed, not just cheaper overhead in selling printers and toner.
Slideshare now has thousands of Pro accounts, with industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, Dell, Edelman and IBM creating individual or a network of such accounts.
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In addition, IBM announced that in May it will start supplying in volume two new 20G-byte and 30G-byte Travelstar hard drives to major notebook vendors, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and the IBM Personal Systems Group.
Social media training is quickly becoming mandatory for an ever-growing range of companies, far surpassing the first wave of IT firms that rolled it out two years ago, like Dell, Intel and IBM.
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