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03 Mar 2010 Gartner and IDC Release Worldwide Server Market Reports [22883]
Low-end Server Sales Rise, While High-end Systems Fall

The headline for IDC's press release on the 4Q09 server market sums things up nicely: "Worldwide Server Market Rebounds Sharply in Fourth Quarter as Demand for Blades and x86 Systems Leads the Way." Gartner found that while the worldwide server market recovered in the second half of 2009 from the economic downturn, plummeting sales in high-end systems resulted in a decline in overall revenue in the fourth quarter. open to premium members only

15 Jan 2010 Solaris Cluster Meets Virtualization and High-Availability Requirements [22535]
IDC White Paper Discusses How Sun's Solution Addresses Customers' Pain Points

An IDC white paper written by Jean S. Bozman examines the rise and needs of high availability in a virtualized world. Spotlighted is the Solaris Cluster and how it addresses many pain points experienced by IT operations looking to improve availability for applications and databases, while utilizing virtualization technologies. open to premium members only

03 Dec 2009 Server Market Shows Signs of Stabilizing, IDC and Gartner Report [22637]
Despite Decline in Third Quarter Sales

Server sales are beginning to stabilize, reports IDC and Gartner in analyses on the July-September period. The IT research and advisory firms both found revenue down in the worldwide server market during the third quarter of 2009, however the decrease was less than anticipated and demonstrated an increase over the first and second quarters of this year. open to premium members only

18 Nov 2009 AT&T's New Cloud Computing System Relies on Sun Technologies [22594]
Based on Sun's Open Cloud Platform and Sun Cloud APIs

The newly announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service is using Sun's Open Cloud Platform, Sun Cloud APIs and cloud reference architecture as the underlying infrastructure for its cloud offerings. This global cloud-based service is geared at creating an environment to make it easy for developers to build and deploy value-added services, as well as provide companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity. open to premium members only

12 Nov 2009 Managing Mixed Environments with Sun Ops Center 2.5 [22522]
Don't Let Virtualization Get Out of Hand

To be sure, virtualization cuts real estate costs drastically since the practice eliminates the need for incremental growth of datacenters. But, if users create one virtual machine after another, they are doing little to ease the task of provisioning, monitoring, analyzing and optimizing workload performance across both their remaining physical and growing virtual resources. That's where Sun Ops Center 2.5 comes in handy, as Jean Bozman, Gary Chen and Mary Turner point out in their brief IDC paper, "Sun Ops Center 2.5: Managing Mixed Environments in Virtualized Sun Infrastructure." open to premium members only

 
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