As the world s second-biggest electronics manufacturer-for-hire, they ve seen them all: smartphones, storage hardware, networking switches.
Oracle entered the storage hardware market with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January last year.
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These applications require both servers, on which they are hosted, and storage hardware, for backing up of the data.
Innovation follows these opportunities and we look forward to see where that takes us in the development of digital storage hardware and software.
Given that storage software is a higher margin business as compared to storage hardware, NetApp will not want to risk any further loss of market share.
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This is true even though technologies such as virtualization, deduplication, intelligent storage tiering and more recently software defined storage allow more efficient utilization of storage hardware.
As for Facebook, its upcoming solution is low-power deep-storage hardware contained within a 62, 000 square-foot building in Prineville, Oregon near its existing Beaver State data center.
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This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.
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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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Storage hardware is the most valuable division of NetApp, constituting nearly 40% of its value while Software and Consulting Services constitute nearly 30% of its current value with cash making up the rest.
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Digital storage hardware and software will play an important role in providing the level of services and performance that consumers are expecting while controlling both the cost and energy use of the required data centers.
It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.
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We conduct ongoing research into data storage technologies including hardware, software and services management.
The company will relabel and sell Virident PCIe solid state storage devices and is using its investment and board seat with the company to leverage work to develop the next generation of PCIe and SOP storage solutions including hardware as well as software components.
Backblaze represents one approach to reduce the costs of digital storage and other enterprise hardware.
Commercially manufacturing this kind of nano-hardware data storage still remains years, if not decades, away.
It was once an unwritten rule of storage sales to never let hardware get in the way of a sale.
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 DAS connectivity is very important for internal hardware design, connecting storage and computing systems over a network continues to grow in importance to enable movement of these vast data streams.
Of the CIOs surveyed by NextInning, 42% said they plan to increase hardware spending on servers, storage, and switches versus only 29% last year.
To provide seamless management, storage software must be able to talk to hardware from rival vendors.
Enterprises generally prefer to buy most of their IT hardware (PCs, servers, storage systems) from a single manufacturer.
For although Sun makes most of its money selling server computers and storage devices, it is not just a hardware-maker.
But in reality you're shipping a custom Linux rig with dedicated HD video hardware, Ethernet, and external storage support -- the possibilities are endless.
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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Microsoft is selling business software and entertainment hardware (Xboxes) to complement its storage.
Customers can buy the right processor cards for their workloads, and then balance the processor cards with the right amount of storage and network bandwidth to tune their AMD SeaMicro hardware for a specific workload.
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Intel has several OCP engagements in flight including working with the industry to design OCP boards for Intel Xeon and Intel Atom based processors, support for cold storage with the Intel Atom processor, and common hardware management as well as future rack definitions including enabling today's photonics receptacle.
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With hardware, anything involving the simple movement and storage of bits--e-mails, say--is done with fearful perfection, and Moore's Law says it will only get better.
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