The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company's acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. -- at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle's virtualization play.
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.
"Greening Your Data Center: The Real Deal," an article on eWeek.com by Matthew Sarrel, reports on the interesting current phenomenon in IT, the "greening" of the data center. Striving after ever bigger market share is only part of the motive in this game, Sarrel writes. The other elements involve being able to offer customers both reduced carbon footprints and reduced IT costs as well.
Following on his talk "HPC Trends and Virtualization," a presentation given at Sun's HPC Consortium in Hamburg recently, Josh Simons goes further with his blog post "Virtualization for HPC: The Heterogeneity Issue," a subject to which he takes an even-handed approach, conceding at the outset that " ... while heterogeneity is either desirable or to be avoided, depending on your viewpoint, virtualization can help in either case."
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.
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