Backblaze represents one approach to reduce the costs of digital storage and other enterprise hardware.
The survival strategies for large hardware manufacturers and enterprise CIOs are not all that different from each other.
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This piece will discuss Nimble Storage, Proximal Data, Fusion-io and IBM flash memory hardware and software enterprise offerings.
It is also becoming one of the major players in enterprise hardware, thanks to its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010.
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Lenovo, although it recently took a tentative step in the direction of enterprise hardware, is still essentially an endpoint company, selling devices to individuals and companies.
This move is expected to be beneficial for both Microsoft and H-P and will improve the adoption of their software and hardware offerings among enterprise customers.
My first entree to the financial community was at Salomon Brothers following the Enterprise Server Hardware companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
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Dell, meanwhile, has made great strides in retuning its hardware business toward the enterprise market but continues to wrestle with how to improve the performance of its consumer business, and could face the same sort of disruptive transformation HP is now undergoing.
Enterprise software and hardware startups have some advantages over their consumer internet counterparts.
Support services are being given to David Donatelli, who is in charge of enterprise sales of hardware, particularly for data centers.
We expect more developments over time with new SSD offerings as well as enterprise software and hardware taking advantage of these advances.
The surprisingly weak results are pushing enterprise software and hardware stocks lower after hours, and could weight heavily on the group on Wednesday.
With many other companies offering enterprise flash storage hardware and software we believe that the trend of flash memory company acquisitions will only accelerate in the coming months.
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There has traditionally been no easy way to turn the jumble of enterprise software and hardware into a coherent orchestra, because all of the sheet music is written in different languages.
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With all of these components, HP becomes the only firm that can supply end to end enterprise IT, including hardware and software, either on premises or under the Infrastructure as a Service model.
The traditional IT model requires system engineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.
But to get much better performance, especially for enterprise environments, Sellers realized that a hardware approach was needed.
NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services.
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The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers) were no different than the tools available to the enterprise at the time: high-performance, scale-up hardware systems that were powerful, but expensive and inflexible.
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Both hardware makers are working to expand their high-mobility portfolios, but Dell is more focused on enterprise solutions, and HP has indicated that these products will not be rushed to market.
At Oracle, we believe that the Steve Jobs vision of richly integrated software and hardware, engineered and optimized to work together from the ground up, will reshape the future of enterprise computing.
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The company makes this possible by creating a security-focused hypervisor that automatically, instantly and invisibly hardware-isolates each vulnerable Windows task in a micro-VM that cannot modify Windows or gain access to enterprise data or network infrastructure.
At the core of these enterprise storage systems are disk drives much like the one in your PC, but surrounded with considerable extra hardware and software to give them the security and easy management that big companies demand.
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