Servers Slow And Switches Stall At Cisco
Every innovative product finds its natural place in the market, and that seems to have happened with the Unified Computing System, a converged server-network platform that Cisco Systems launched ...Full Article
Efficiency Gains, Cloud Hold Down IT Spending Growth
There is pent up demand for IT infrastructure upgrades as systems are aging in the datacenters of the world, and that is pushing up demand for hardware and software. ...Full Article
Financial, Government Sectors Lift Q4 For Juniper
Intel and IBM may be experiencing weaker-than-expected revenues from the enterprise sector, but switch and router maker Juniper Networks had a nice bump from enterprises and beat Wall Street's ...Full Article
Hardware Stall Continues For IBM In Q4
The hardware business at IBM has fallen on hard times in recent months, and the difficulties continued for Big Blue as it wrapped up 2013. And so IBM's new ...Full Article
Datacenter Lifts Intel In 2013, But Can It Repeat In 2014?
It is easy to predict what the big cloud builders and hyperscale datacenter operators are going to do: They are going to build more glasshouses and buy or build ...Full Article
Gartner Trims Forecasts, But IT Budget Growth Still Good
The first thing anyone wants to know when the new year kicks off is will this one be better than the last one. You can't know this ahead of ...Full Article
Opscode Becomes Chef, Fills Warchest for Puppet Battle
The battle between Puppet Labs and Opscode for the future of systems management is heating up. Opscode has received a big infusion of cash from venture capital investors. At ...Full Article
HP Systems Sales Rebound, But Profits Under Pressure
The good news is that Hewlett-Packard is growing its X86 server business faster than the market at large again. The bad news is that a very large hyperscale server ...Full Article
Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming
Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its ...Full Article
Rackspace Profits Squeezed by Cloud Competition
Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate ...Full Article


