Cisco Makes The Charts – Now No. 3 In Blades
When Cisco began shipping UCS slightly over two years ago, competitor reaction ranged the gamut from concerned to gleefully dismissive of their chances at success in the server market. The reasons...
View ArticleHP Stirs The Pot With New Converged Infrastructure Offerings
HP this week really stirred up the Converged Infrastructure world by introducing three new solution offerings, one an incremental evolution of an existing offering and the other two representing new...
View ArticleCisco Tweaks UCS - New Interfaces, Management Software Expand Capabilities
Not to be left out of the announcement fever that has gripped vendors recently, Cisco today announced several updates to their UCS product line aimed at easing potential system bottlenecks by improving...
View ArticleXsigo Expands to a Data Center Fabric: Converged Infrastructure for the...
Last year at VMworld I noted Xsigo Systems, a small privately held company at VMworld showing their I/O Director technology, which delivereda subset of HP Virtual Connect or Cisco UCS I/O...
View ArticleAMD Releases Interlagos And Valencia – Bulldozers In The Cloud
This week AMD finally released their AMD 6200 and 4200 series CPUs. These are the long-awaited server-oriented Interlagos and Valencia CPUs, based on their new "Bulldozer" core, offering up to 16 x86...
View ArticleIBM Raises The Bar On Converged Infrastructure With PureFlex And...
IBM Jumps On CI With Both FeetOver the last couple of years, IBM, despite having a rich internal technology ecosystem and a number of competitive blade and CI offerings, has not had a comprehensive...
View ArticleHP Rolls Out BladeSystem Upgrades – Significant Improvements Aim To Fend Off...
OverviewEarlier this week at its Discover customer event, HP announced a significant set of improvements to its already successful c-Class BladeSystem product line, which, despite continuing...
View ArticleOracle Delivers On SPARC Promises
BackgroundWhen I returned to Forrester in mid-2010, one of the first blog posts I wrote was about Oracle's new roadmap for SPARC and Solaris, catalyzed by numerous client inquiries and other...
View ArticleHP Shows its Next Generation Blade and Converged Infrastructure – No...
With the next major spin of Intel server CPUs due later this year, HP's customers have been waiting for HP's next iteration of its core c-Class BladeSystem, which has been on the market for almost 7...
View ArticleDell Introduces FX system - the Shape of Infrastructure to Come?
Dell today announced its new FX system architecture, and I am decidedly impressed.Dell FX is a 2U flexible infrastructure building block that allows infrastructure architects to compose an...
View ArticleShifting Sands – Changing Alliances Underscore the Dynamism of the...
There is always a tendency to regard the major players in large markets as being a static background against which the froth of smaller companies and the rapid dance of customer innovation plays out....
View ArticleNokia Takes Over Alcatel-Lucent: Get Ready For A Shift In The Global Network...
Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have entered into a memorandum of understanding under which Nokia will make an offer for Alcatel-Lucent in an all-share transaction. The deal values Alcatel-Lucent at €15.6...
View ArticleSea Changes in the Industry – A New HP and a New Dell Face Off
The acquisition of EMC by Dell has is generating an immense amount of hype and prose, much of it looking forward at how the merged entity will try and compete in cloud, integrate and rationalize its...
View ArticleEmphasize Emotion In Your Holiday Customer Service
This blog post is part of Forrester’s Holiday 2018 retail series. As the holidays approach and the post-holiday return rush quickly follows, a few things will occur simultaneously: Hundreds of millions...
View ArticleDAM Or Web CMS? Part 2: Find Out Which DX Technology You Need For Workflow...
In the second part of our series, we take a look at workflow and delivery and where digital asset management and web content management systems excel. If you haven’t seen the first part of our...
View ArticleThe Future Of Mobility Is Data, Not Cars
Having worked in and with the automotive industry for around 25 years, the challenges that OEMs face given their size and structures often inhibit the business agility needed to provide lasting...
View ArticleThe TV Industry Is Stumbling Toward Customer Centricity
I’ve just returned from a few days in the sun, having once again participated in Beet.TV’s annual Beet Retreat. (Wonderfully, we returned to Puerto Rico this year.*) The theme was “It’s Consumer-First...
View ArticleQuantifying Vendor Efficacy Using The MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation
I’ve been extremely excited about the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation since it decided to open it up to vendors earlier this year. The endpoint detection and response (EDR) market represents the direction...
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