Intel has deep influence over major OEMs such as Dell, HP and IBM.
It is a big deal for a lot of people, in particular HP nemesis IBM.
Eyeing the challenge from HP, IBM's software chief, Steven Mills, throws down the gauntlet.
There are similar offerings from HP and IBM and other vendors, Ziegler notes.
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But Dell aims to bring his hyperefficient approach to managed services, too, effectively benchmarking both HP and IBM.
And he notes that HP, IBM and Cisco are competing more with Dell in the SMB and server markets.
They say it will offer the same comprehensive one-stop cloud hardware and software shopping as HP and IBM, with more up-to-date equipment.
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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For investors looking for an inexpensive, defensive large cap value name, we prefer HP to IBM in the near to medium-term given their relative valuations.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM, with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell, HP's rival in personal computers.
Sun, now an underdog with its proprietary technology and withered market capitalization, can't mount the consulting-heavy approaches of HP or IBM nor match the marketing clout of Microsoft.
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.
The LTO tape consortium (led by HP, IBM and Quantum) has a public tape product roadmap that will take magnetic tape technology out to about 13 TB of native (uncompressed) storage capacity.
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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Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.
He was notably less willing than she to compare HP to either IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), with which HP competes in services and servers, and Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), HP's rival in personal computers.
"Big corporations buy from companies like Dell, Compaq, HP, and IBM, " Dukker says.
Using this framework, nine different companies were analyzed including Amazon, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP and VMWare.
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It has over-invested in ideas such as the FlexPod reference architecture, which ultimately is not an integrated solution (such as those offered by Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and Oracle).
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This space is a cooperative battleground between the commercial open source world of Hadoop and the enterprise vendors such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, HP Vertica, IBM Neteeza, and many others.
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Compaq, HP, and IBM have inked partnership agreements with all the major distributions, but managing multiple documentation sets, utilities, and installation packages for essentially the same operating system kernel may weed out some distributions over time.
Even though Quanta makes laptops for PC heavyweights like Dell, HP, and IBM, that doesn't necessarily mean that they'll want to implement Quanta's integration technology (to say nothing of the countless mobile device manufacturers that would have to get behind this).
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The giants like IBM and HP have skills in networking and servers that Tucci cannot match.
The audience consists of 70 chief marketing officers from companies like IBM, HP and Dell.
HP-UX and IBM AIX system versions and additional PACs areexpected in the next 30 to 60 days.
The other major players in the cloud storage space include Microsoft, IBM and HP.
Both IBM and HP have been exploring projects to use sensor networks to track physical infrastructure in real time.
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IBM, HP and Oracle all promise comprehensive, enterprise-wide services for the giant data centers of the world's biggest multinationals.
Compaq looked stunned, paralyzed by its channel conflicts, distracted by IBM and HP.
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