In its bid to keep Big Blue's lead in the server market, IBM has launched the fastest-ever microprocessor and computer server, with the double whammy of being energy efficient, and thus relatively cheap to run.
The new systems design combines IBM's new zEnterprise mainframe server with new technology--the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager--that enable it to manage workloads running across System z, and select POWER7 and System x servers.
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The rapid and disruptive shift in the industry toward those business-driven themes have led Ellison to assert a bold claim: new competitive dynamics in the database sector will raise the stakes for Teradata and other relatively lower-profile players that have generally stayed under the radar of Oracle, IBM, and even Microsoft SQL Server.
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IBM, ever the salesman, has thrown gobs of its fancy server hardware at the project, with 10 racks full of IBM Power 750 servers, stuffed with 15 terabytes of RAM and 2, 880 processor operating at a collective 80 teraflops.
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The company is a leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet server networking solutions and an IBM partner.
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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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Fujitsu is kicking off a big push into the U.S. computer market with a high-end server intended to take on IBM and Hewlett-Packard in their home turf.
While IBM held a 44% share of the blade server market, once dominant HP has 25%.
While Mobile Server is technically similar to offerings from IBM and Oracle, it is unlikely to have cross-platform support.
Partnership activity remains strong and includes a recent collaboration with IBM to support that company's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux, " Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server to customers that wanted to run large, serious enterprise applications.
Bill Zeitler, the senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, said IBM would garner 1 point of market share in the server market each year between now and 2010 in, with server growth in the mid single digits.
And he notes that HP, IBM and Cisco are competing more with Dell in the SMB and server markets.
This is because hardware constitutes a relatively smaller portion of our price estimate for IBM, making its stock value much less sensitive to changes in server forecasts.
The prospect of giant Google-server farms built next to power plants makes executives from IBM to Accenture (nyse: ACN - news - people ) sit up straight.
IBM, which has declared Linux to be at the centre of its server strategy.
The chips will initially be used in the firm's server lineup sometime near 2009, and shortly thereafter, we can expect IBM to start cranking these out for other companies that rely on its CPUs.
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On the wireless server front, Microsoft needs to catch up with a number of vendors, including IBM and Oracle, that have already launched such products.
This would be a move away from its usual domain but one which, particularly in the server market, could be profitable and see it encroaching on territory traditionally dominated by IBM and Sun Microsystems.
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Every time an SAP or Oracle application was sold, every time a server was sold by Dell or Hewlett Packard, every time a major consulting product was sold by IBM, Accenture, or Capgemini, Whitehurst wants Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its other products in the mix.
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