Earlier this week Silicon Graphics was purchased by Rackable systems for 25mill. It also looks like Sun will be gobbled up to the tune of 7 Billion next week by IBM and Twitter the social tool could be purchased by Google. Recessions are very interesting times!
Posts Tagged ‘sun’
Acquisition Week
Posted in Business, Computing, HPC, tagged google, ibm, rackable, sgi, silicon graphics, sun, twitter on Apr 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IBM in talks to buy Sun
Posted in Business, Computing, Work, tagged ibm, load leveler, sge, solaris, stock, sun, sun microsystems on Mar 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is reported that IBM are in talks to purchase SUN Microsystems. I had blogged about the possibility of Dell buying them a few months ago. At that time I looked into buying SUN stock because it was so low, wish I had enough cash at the time because their stock price has gone up [...]
Sun IT’s, Data Center Consolidation Efforts
Posted in HPC, tagged consolodation, datacenter, future, HPC, sun, virtualization on Jan 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sun’s plan of zero data centers by 2015 is very ambitious but achievable, instead of having their data centres down they hall they’ll be a few miles away. Sun has realized that by outsourcing their datacentre management it is cheaper than having themselves manage it. Their biggest challenges they will face is migration is their [...]
