HP, IBM, Sun boost enterprise grids
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InfoWorld - Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems will this week announce an effort they are spearheading to extend the open source Globus Toolkit for grid technologies to commercial enterprise deployments.
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One of Hewlett-Packard's enhancements helps IT managers figure out which workloads can automatically access available capacity for key applications.
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Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard this week are trying to leapfrog EMC for enterprise-class storage leadership using pretty much the same product -- HDS&#39;s new TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.
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(Source: Network Appliance) This independent study by Mercer Management Consulting was designed to identify what drives total cost in Exchange storage environments and how EMC, HP and Network Appliance storage area network (SAN) solutions compare in these environments. Download this white paper to review their findings.
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Group adds muscle and white papers Exclusive Come Monday, the elusive Green Grid consortium that focuses on the energy consumption of data centers will announce the acquisition of two industry heavyweights - Intel and Microsoft, The Register has learned.â¦
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Server shipments and revenue increased in the second quarter, as Sun Microsystems and Dell gained market share at the expense of Hewlett-Packard and IBM, according to research recently released by Gartner.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2004  - IBM and officials from some of the world&#39;s leading science, education and philanthropic organizations yesterday launched a global grid computing project aimed at harnessing unused global computing power to help solve a
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The application server space is heating up once again as both IBM and BEA Systems tout new versions of their platforms. With its Liquid Computing strategy, San Jose, Calif.
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Companies like Microsoft and Google have committed to improving the power efficiency of equipment they make and use.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard (HP) is strengthening ties to Microsoft to provide a broadened portfolio of business software products to the enterprise market, delivering a competitive blow to rival IBM. Announced Wednesday, HP and Microsoft's joint $300-million, three-year investment to sell five different types of enterprise technology includes: -- Messaging and unified communications, including e-mail, instant messaging and video conferencing; -- Collaboration and content management, software that allows geographically-dispersed employees to collaborate on text, database, video and other files; -- Business intelligence, the analysis of data to help drive business decisions; -- Business process integration, which refers to the different processes enterprises use to run their businesses; -- and core infrastructure, the management of an enterprise's computer systems. The collaboration will generate 30 new products and services in the next year to 20,000 shared customers of the two companies. "Our customers, when they are looking for these solutions, are eager for what it brings to them, but they also want it at a very attractive cost," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP, during a news conference. Although HP, a maker of computers, servers and storage products, and Microsoft, a maker of operating systems and application software, have partnered for more than 20 years, the scale of this announcement makes it unique, said Livermore. "It pools Microsoft's whole portfolio to the enterprise and our whole portfolio...and that puts us in just a tremendous position." "Customers want to hear: how can IT advance the business? How can IT drive value in the business? That's the nature of these five solutions that we have," said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft. The combined market for business intelligence, collaboration, content management and infrastructure software is estimated at $49 billion in 2007 and the market for communications hardware and services is estimated approximately $60 billion, said John Gantz, chief research officer with IDC. The HP-Microsoft deal gives both companies leverage over their joint rival, IBM, which also sells hardware and software to enterprises, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, a technology consulting firm. Although IBM hardware also runs Microsoft software, Microsoft is getting closer to HP, he said. "Microsoft now views IBM as much more of a competitor going forward than a partner and it looks like they are shifting their attention away from IBM services and toward HP's," said Enderle. HP is expected to surpass IBM in revenue this year. HP had $91.7 billion in its fiscal year, ended Oct. 31, while IBM is expected to end its year on Dec. 31 with $90.72 billion, according to a consensus from analysts polled by Thomson Financial. "With HP now moving ahead of IBM, I think Microsoft feels comfortable partnering with HP more aggressively," Enderle said. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite of business software and Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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Cisco Systems wants to turn the enterprise data network into an electricity meter.Using open standards, the company wants to get server and storage vendors to collect and share information about their equipment and send it to Cisco routers and switches. The data could include power consumption, operating temperature and more. It&#39;s becoming a critical job, and because the network touches all IT resources across the enterprise, data collection should happen there, according to Paul Marcoux, vice president of green engineering.Marcoux joined Cisco from American Power Conversion only about six weeks ago after Cisco created the position to overlook energy issues across all parts of the company. Networking gear itself makes up a much smaller portion of IT power consumption than do servers or storage, but Cisco plans to go beyond just making its own products more efficient.Power is a growing issue in datacenters as the cost of energy rises and concerns about global climate change increase. Being able to collect and analyze information about power usage is a big part of the battle and becoming more crucial in the age of virtualization, according to Marcoux. Distributing storage and processing cycles without regard for power issues is not just inefficient, it&#39;s dangerous, he said.If virtualization software looks at a process that requires more computing power or storage space, then enlists servers or storage devices that are near to overheating or running out of power, it could send a rack of servers over the edge and shut it down, Marcoux said. For that reason, the virtualization system needs to know the power status of all the resources it may call upon, he said.By the same token, consolidated datacenters typically serve many departments of an enterprise and consume a lot of power, but those groups generally don&#39;t have to pay for their part of the power. In fact, the electricity bill often bypasses even the IT department, going to building management instead, Marcoux said. Collecting data about the power consumed by each device, and eventually by individual transactions, would allow enterprises to bill each department for the power it uses, he said.Software on routers and switches would collect the information and then take actions or forward it on to separate building management, energy management or virtualization control systems, Marcoux said. Given the large amount of energy data to be processed, Cisco may introduce daughtercards for its platforms to provide extra computing power, he said. He hopes the technology will be in place and collecting information in enterprises within three years.Because datacenters contain gear from so many vendors, open standards are the only way to make such a system work, according to Cisco. Fortunately, there already are several available standards, Marcoux said. Having standards already in place will help speed up adoption, Marcoux said.&quot;We&#39;re not trying to reinvent the wheel, we&#39;re just trying now to utilize the wheel,&quot; Marcoux said.Cisco&#39;s proposal would represent a whole new role for networks beyond communications, said Burton Group analyst Dave Passmore. Server vendors might go along with the plan, but Cisco can&#39;t count on smooth sailing, he said. Centralized power regulation would play a role in overall management of the datacenter, an area where Cisco is attempting to make inroads with other initiatives as well.&quot;Who controls virtualization in the data center is going to be the new battleground,&quot; Passmore said.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  and  Sun Microsystems Inc.  were among the fastest-growing  data storage providers in the second quarter, while EMC Corp.   and Dell Inc.  lagged overall market growth,  researcher IDC said on Thursday.
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Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle have sealed an alliance to develop grid computing technology. The move is an effort to develop a standard approach to building and deploying enterprise grid computing infrastructures.
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Hoping to harness a few million of the personal computers not already running the SETI@home screensaver, IBM and United Devices yesterday launched the World Community Grid to act as a clearing house for humanitarian IT projects.
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Environmental Protection Agency officials are linking with IBM Corp. on a major new grid computing program aimed at improved air pollution modeling and environmental risk assessments, and whose grid capabilities may be offered as a service in the future.
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Without a question, the &quot;Regatta&quot; family of Power4 and Power4+ servers put IBM Corp&#39;s Unix business in high gear. Just as Unix leaders Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co were struggling with product
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A group of technology companies collaborates to improve energy efficiency in data centers.