But Cisco threw a grenade into that punchbowl last March, when it announced its Unified Computing System, a collection of data center products that included its own server.
What makes the zEnterprise more than "just another mainframe announcement, " says Forrester analyst Brad Day, is the software that bridges those platforms, what IBM calls its Unified Resource Manager (URM).
Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
Over the long term, Zynga also plans to build its own unified messaging service for its games network, these people said.
To deliver its own unified communications solution, however, Oracle will need additional technology.
Don't be surprised to see Microsoft abandon its current unified communications branding--Microsoft Lync--and rechristen the product Skype for the Enterprise.
However, faced with competition from the storage market leader EMC in its core unified storage market, NetApp may find it increasingly hard to gain further market share.
Incumbent Prime Minister Najib Razak has voiced confidence that the National Front coalition will remain Malaysia's dominant political force despite facing its most unified opposition challenge since independence from Britain in 1957.
In the past NetApp has significantly gained share in the data storage market driven by its industry leading unified storage offerings.
Until its foreign policy is more unified, Russia will find it difficult to nourish trust and steadiness in its dealings with normal countries.
It seems clear that the Committee is taking very seriously its proposal of a unified pass-thru rules.
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When I came into office, the world was divided and Iran was unified around its nuclear program.
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But the United States had unified around its goal of freeing the world from Hitler and his odious policies.
Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk was floated from the rocks late Sunday night and teams were assessing its condition, the Unified Command said.
Heavy subsidies to energy and water prices have been reduced and, last October, the government finally made its currency convertible and unified the exchange rate.
They've gotten an awful long way down the road on the wrong path without America and its allies in a unified way trying to change that.
But in the past these new technologies have first found markets in Europe because its market is technologically unified, enabling not only economies of scale but also, and more importantly, economies of network.
Its software also enables unified communications, so an executive might wake up in Beijing or Oslo, pull out a smartphone and make and receive calls just as if he or she were in New York.
Public safety is unified in its quest for this additional spectrum and as the network begins to take shape, it will be working with the commercial network operators to share some services, back-end systems, and other assets in order to maximize the network while minimizing its costs.
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The Unity Next project will incorporate several core components from the Ubuntu Touch interface, inching the Linux OS closer to its goal of a truly unified codebase.
It established a unified Jerusalem as its capital and has established settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian land, over the decades, but has not annexed any of that territory.
The PdL's share of the vote on its first outing as a unified party was two points lower than at the 2008 general election, when it was mainly an electoral alliance.
Using the visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere, SAP will be able to enhance all its software offerings to make them more intuitive and enable visual navigation of an entire product and its related data in a unified environment.
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The romantic notion that a unified Europe could sustain its own multitudinous political and cultural and economic differences is coming undone.
Facebook is looking to potentially rewrite all of its smartphone apps into a more unified HTML5 app that works across all smartphone devices.
The President also stressed the importance of a political process as the only way to peacefully address the legitimate grievances of Bahrainis and to lead to a Bahrain that is stable, just, more unified and responsive to its people.
Since Israel has applied its laws to the entirety of unified Jerusalem and to the Golan Heights, it is clear that the reason they don't appear in school textbooks is because they are irrelevant to the study of Israel's borders.
When we came into office, the world was divided, Iran was unified and moving aggressively on its own agenda.
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Is the function of the unified company the service of its users and advertising customers, or the service of the future itself?
Legal Departments must adopt a coherent approach to e-Discovery such as a unified legal repository that meets its needs across the enterprise and under one umbrella.
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