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IBM and Oracle Spar at Hot Chips

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IBM and Oracle Spar at Hot Chips

IBM and Oracle fight it out at the Hot Chips 24 symposium, presenting rival RISC chips for so-called "big iron" machines-- the IBM Power7+ and the Oracle T5. 

Clearly vendors still invest in non-x86 servers, even as the market migrates away from the RISC/Unix platforms. According to Gartner, during Q2 2012 alone the category sees a -25.1% Y-o-Y decline in EMEA. 

IBM makes the 8-core Power7+ with a 32nm process (compared to 45nm for the Power7), allowing for several new features within a chip of around the same size. Level 3 cache memory is up to Read more...

AMD Intros "Most Powerful" Server GPUs

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AMD Intros

AMD launches what it claims are its most powerful graphics processors for workstation and virtualised desktop deployments yet-- the FirePro S9000 and S7000 server GPUs. 

The company says the cards reduce power consumption by up to 95% at idle, yielding overall data centre cost savings and more efficient compute-intensive workload management meeting the demands of CAD, media and entertainment applications. 

The dual-slot FirePro S9000 is the more powerful card and delivers up to 4 TFLOPS of single precision compute performance. The lower-end single-slot Read more...

Microsoft Gets New Look

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Microsoft Gets New Look

We're all familiar with the Microsoft logo, right? Not any more-- the company introduces the 5th major change in logo in its history. 

Since 1987 the Microsoft logo consisted of a simple solid, boldfaced and italicised logotype. The 2012 logo uses a more lighter non-bold, non-italic logotype (Segoe, font fans) and incorporates the familiar multicolour Windows symbol. 

The intention of the new logo to "signal the heritage but also signal the future-— a newness and freshness," Microsoft brand strategy GM Jeff Hansent tells the Seattle Times. It will ap Read more...

Dell Business Plummets (Except in Enterprise)

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Dell  Business Plummets (Except in Enterprise)

Dell sees a -8% Y-o-Y decline in fiscal Q2 2013 revenues reaching $14.5 billion, with EMEA revenues dropping by -7% Y-o-Y due to the current economic situation and further drops in desktop and mobile computing sales.

The Dell Consumer business is the worst hit-- revenues reach $2.6bn with a 22% Y-o-Y decline.

Dell earnings are more positive in the enterprise segment-- Enterprise Solutions and Services revenues now total over 50% of Dell margin and around 30% of revenue, reaching $4.9bn with 6% Y-o-Y growth.

Server and networking revenue grows by Read more...

Cisco Meets Goals in Fiscal 2012

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Cisco Meets Goals in Fiscal 2012

Cisco product sales for fiscal Q4 2012 total $9.15 billion with 2.6% Y-o-Y growth and services revenues grow by 11.7% Y-o-Y to reach $2.54bn, growth the company attributes to ongoing restructuring efforts. 

The quarter sees flat sales ($3.6bn) for switching as fixed switch sales grow by 6% and modular switch revenues fall by -3%. 

Total Cisco revenues for fiscal 2012 rise by 6.6% to reach $46.1bn, meeting the company's goals for the period. The company currently focuses on key switching, routing and collaboration while pushing Unified Computing System Read more...

Assmann Partners with Ingram Micro

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Assmann Partners with Ingram Micro

Assmann Electronic continues its sales expansion, adding Ingram Micro in Germany. 

As a result Assman will increase the availability of its product portfolio in the channel, specifically Digitus brand networking and peripheral products. For professional network solutions, the company presents the brand DIGITUS professional.

Most of the product range consists of:

--active and passive network components
--KVMs
--USB and Firewire products
--cables, adapters and connectors
--(S)ATA/SCSI products
--peripheral
--notebooks
--PDAs
--computer and Read more...

Losses, Organisational Changes for HP ES

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Losses, Organisational Changes for HP ES

HP prepares itself for huge losses in Q3 2012 after taking an $8 billion writedown in its services division, a good will impairment from the 2008 acquisition of EDS. 

Four years ago HP bought EDS for $13.9 billion, folding it in the services arm which it renamed HP Enterprise Services (HP ES). The group now handles outsourcing contracts for HP. 

The company is also going through further restructuring-- more employees are taking severance offers, leading to a $1.5-1.7bn charge as opposed to the original forecast of $1bn. 

Then there are organisational Read more...

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