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.
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.
Google is a growing enterprise vendor and compared to the likes of IBM and HP they are still in kindergarten.
He also recruited Steve Shuckenbrock from EDS to drive Dell into the services business in competition with IBM and HP.
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Companies seeking to build a similar business model to IBM include HP, Cisco, Oracle, and Dell.
Microsoft, with its Azure cloud system, along with offerings from IBM, HP and others, are all wooing companies and independent developers.
They were accomplished by advanced engineering teams supported by massive investments by use-value participants such as IBM, HP, and Intel.
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While on a valuation basis Dell is the most expensive of the three, you can't say that about IBM or HP.
Today, IBM and HP remain among the largest companies on the planet.
Back in 2002, everyone considered Apple a computer company and the analysts who followed it also covered IBM, HP, Dell, etc.
Again, Xerox was last, a little ahead of IBM and HP.
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Higher profitability and revenue growth gives Oracle an edge over competitors SAP, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the software and hardware market.
It competes directly with Google, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the cloud computing market and will soon have another formidable competitor in Oracle.
Companies like EMC, IBM and HP are meantime creating even more possibilities, through the capture and storage of all sorts of sensor, supply chain, and organizational and human behavioral data.
There is no evidence indicating such a move is in the works, but a potential nightmare scenario for IBM and HP would involve Dell buying and successfully integrating a big consultancy.
Symantec took their eye off the ball when they acquired Veritas. 2005 was way too early for a software security vendor to attempt to mature into a tech holding company like IBM or HP.
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Finally, we wrote about one Black Hat talk ourselves last week, unveiling research by Greek researcher Thanassis Gianettsos that shows new ways of penetrating and hijacking the sort of sensor networks being developed by IBM and HP.
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As companies like General Motors, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Infosys, Google and Charles Schwab all started adopting internal corporate blogs around five years ago, Ghose wondered about whether those blogs were just time sucks for employees, or whether they made workers more productive.
"Customers whose companies have branch offices in Bangladesh, and run all different platforms and all different OSs, those customers will look to IBM, HP, and Compaq to provide comprehensive services, " said Paul McNamara, general manager of the business enterprise unit at Red Hat.
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.
Just like IBM (NYSE: IBM), HP is slated to lose its identity as a consumer company.
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Not to be left behind the upstarts, Brocade, IBM, and HP all announced products aimed at the big data market.
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.
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.
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