The company has to evolve into selling cloud software as well as higher-end hardware systems.
Hardware systems support was down 11%, or down 6% in constant currency.
Hardware systems revenue was down 24%, or 21% lower in constant currency.
Some of the hardware systems are maturing through to our 20s.
Big Blue's hardware business will also be probed, as investors hope the company can reverse its falling sales of hardware systems, which dropped 6.7% last quarter.
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.
FORBES: If Cloud Computing Is Here, Then Where Is My Jet Pack?
He waded back into the decimated semiconductor, hardware and systems-software industries he had abandoned a year earlier.
Operating systems designed to run on hardware from multiple manufacturers and Java virtual machines promising portability across hardware and operating systems were part of the swing toward platform independence.
Apple has not traditionally done that well outside of hardware and operating systems.
It incorporates novel hardware and software systems that their designers hope can prove their worth in orbit and go on to win export orders.
It wasn't until after he signed a deal in 1993 to represent hardware maker Cisco Systems in Japan that Son's Internet vision fell into place.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asian Newsmaker 1999: Masayoshi Son--Page 1
Many SMBs have struggled to adopt big data and private cloud solutions due to lack of in-house skills and expertise to design and maintain commodity hardware-based systems, IBM said in its announcement.
FORBES: IBM's New Power Systems Challenge HP, Oracle and Dell For SMB Apps
With some functional similarities to the online data base jointly announced by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba earlier this month, the Red Hat Network will serve as a central warehouse where developers can register information on their hardware and software systems, enabling other developers to better pursue joint projects.
The reorganization recognizes that phones and tablets share common operating systems and hardware that notebooks often do not.
To emulate Unisys and IBM and establish legitimacy as a "solutions" seller, Nyberg must shake NCR's reputation for pushing only its homegrown technologies, operating systems, hardware, software, the works.
In fact, the authentication techniques used to identity the king are similar to the identity-management techniques we apply in software and hardware to secure critical systems and applications.
FORBES: King Richard III: Villain, Hero, Or Tragic Victim Of Identity Theft?
Our Gobi fifth generation reference platform helps ensure that OEMs can develop products across their choice of operating systems and hardware platforms to meet the growing demand for mobile connectivity.
ENGADGET: Qualcomm's fifth gen Gobi unveiled, supports a Lollapalooza of LTE, 2G / 3G bands
Mr Schneier predicts that insurance companies will start to specify what kinds of computer equipment companies should use, or charge lower premiums to insure more secure operating systems or hardware.
By Son's count, Softbank holds 7% to 8% of the publicly listed value of all Internet properties (he excludes from this calculation hardware makers like Cisco Systems and service titan America Online).
Ballmer talked of the revolutionary implications of a world, perhaps five years away, where all media is delivered via Internet protocol, and said Microsoft would be everywhere--games, search, operating systems, hardware--to capture that.
Bunell led the audience through a mind-boggling array of slides illustrating numerous techniques for improving availability in embedded systems independent of hardware redundancy.
All four of the new systems include full hardware redundancy, redundant storage and network connections and allow for live operating system upgrades, Sun said.
While hardware sales of all other systems are slowly winding down, as tends to happen near the end of a console generation, Xbox 360 is spooling up.
FORBES: Xbox Sales Surging, Meaning No New Console Necessary
What differentiates them is whether their systems require proprietary hardware and software, the level of control restaurants maintain over the reservation process and how restaurants pay for the service.
Cisco's unified communications systems and TelePresence hardware, for instance, which are designed to facilitate easy remote conferencing, may be seen as a cost-cutting measure to replace expensive travel as fuel prices rise.
The problem has stemmed from the way giants in the Wi-Fi hardware business, like Cisco Systems and 3Com, build their antennas: They're like little computers, with a lot of networking and security intelligence in the box.
No, Ballmer knew he needed to try something very different from what Microsoft has traditionally done, so he decided to mimic not only Oracle but also Apple in pursuing the engineered-systems approach of hardware and software designed together from the ground up.
He points out that Ubuntu Linux ships with Memtest86 to guard agaisnt hardware errors, but other operating systems do not.
As it often does, Intel has created a number of reference designs, which hardware OEMs may use to specify systems for their manufacturing partners.
As a software and hardware designer specializing in embedded control systems I found that the classic USA cubicle office arrangement generated intense stress due to the almost continual hubbub, noise and other interruptive mechanisms.
应用推荐