IBM on Wednesday reported yet another quarter of declining revenues as the company has struggled this year to overcome the one-two punch of falling hardware sales and currency headwinds.
IBM’s Software and Global Business Services unit results were flat for the third quarter ended in September. But the Systems and Technology unit, which makes server and storage hardware, reported a sales decline of 16.6% year-over-year to $ 3.2 billion. Hardware accounts for approximately 16% of IBM’s total revenues.
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October 19, 2013 at 1:21 pm
There’s been Essex, Folsom and Grizzly, and now there’s Havana. The next biannual release of OpenStack makes several major additions in workload orchestration and service delivery. All in all, 392 features have been added.
But some observers think OpenStack is evolving rapidly into something much more than just new features added to existing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). They believe OpenStack is beginning to track Amazon Web Services and add platform-as-a-service (PaaS) features for rapid software development too. If so, OpenStack may start to command a broader body of interest as the basis for private cloud in the enterprise.
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October 19, 2013 at 7:16 am Microsoft unveiled the next generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system this week—blandly named “Update 3.” The new version of Microsoft’s smartphone platform contains a variety of updates and new features—many of which will make Windows Phone smartphones better for business users.
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October 19, 2013 at 1:12 am Joint effort optimizes app delivery over hybrid WANs; Barracuda adds five firewalls; Sepaton launches VirtuoSO; Fusion-io adds serving caching extension.
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October 18, 2013 at 7:15 pm See inside Verne Global’s newest data center in Iceland. Learn why cold-climate countries are becoming increasingly popular data center locations, including factors such as the rise of the green data center.
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October 18, 2013 at 1:14 pm Security analysts can become insular and disengaged because of job pressures and organizational isolation. Here’s how to lead your security team out of the wilderness.
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October 18, 2013 at 7:16 am DFS requirements for protecting mission-critical systems pose channel complications for enterprises deploying 802.11ac.
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October 18, 2013 at 1:14 am Company aims to prove the tape market isn’t dead with new technology that includes a RESTful object storage API to open up tape libraries to more than backup applications.
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October 17, 2013 at 7:16 pm The increasing amount and diversity of data is putting pressure on data backup. Here’s how Sepaton’s new scale-out NAS aims to address the problem.
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October 17, 2013 at 1:13 pm VMware has announced the general availability of its NSX network virtualization software and its licensing scheme, but the company was silent on actual prices.
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October 17, 2013 at 1:12 am 