Richard Fichera

Intel Lays Out Future Data Center Strategy – Serious Focus On Emerging Opportunities

Intel shared their vision for the future of the data center in San Francisco yesterday. At the analyst event, Intel was long on serious vision, and strong on strategic positioning but a bit parsimonious on actual future product information with a couple of interesting exceptions.

July 23, 2013 by Richard Fichera in Intel

HP launches first Project Moonshot server: The shape of things to come?

Forrester’s Richard Fichera explains why HP’s newly unveiled Moonshot 1500 server represents both a significant product today and a major stake in the ground for future products, both from HP and eventually from competitors.

April 8, 2013 by Richard Fichera in Servers

HP's next-gen blade infrastructure: No revolution, strong evolution

With the next major spin of Intel server CPUs due later this year, HP’s customers have been waiting for HP’s next iteration of its core c-Class BladeSystem -- on the market for almost 7 years without any major changes to its basic architecture.

February 21, 2013 by Richard Fichera in Servers

IBM embraces Emerson for DCIM

Emerson Network Power announced that it is entering into a significant partnership with IBM to both integrate Emerson’s new Trellis Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) suite into IBM’s ITSM products as well as to jointly sell Trellis to IBM customers.

February 8, 2013 by Richard Fichera in Data Centers

HP’s Troubles Continue, But Does It Matter?

In the wake of HP’s $8.8 billion loss on Autonomy, the real question is “Does it matter to HP customers?” Not really, says Forrester analyst Richard Fichera.

November 26, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Data Center Power And Efficiency – Public Enemy #1 Or The Latest Media Punching Bag?

The simple fact is that if we want to live in an information society, we need the plumbing to support it. That is perhaps the most salient observation that the New York Times has made — there really is no cloud, just more and more really big data centers.

September 25, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Data Centers

First ARM benchmarks: The race is on

This week, sandwiched between the annual Structure Big Data conference and the International Supercomputing show in Hamburg, Germany, ARM startup and HP partner Calxeda also found time to release the first well-documented x86 versus ARM benchmarks.

June 21, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Hardware

ARM Arrives – Calxeda Shows Real Hardware Running Linux

I said last year that this would happen sometime in the first half of this year, but for some reason my colleagues and clients have kept asking me exactly when we would see a real ARM server running a real OS. How about now?

May 8, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Hardware

IBM Rounds Out Its Linux Offerings With Power Linux

In the latest evolution of its Linux push, IBM has added to its non-x86 Linux server line with the introduction of new dedicated Power 7 rack and blade servers that only run Linux. “Hah”, you say!

May 7, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Hardware

AMD Acquires SeaMicro – Big Bet on Architectural Shift for Servers

Rich Fichera looks at the risks and potential rewards of AMD's recent acquisition of innovative server startup SeaMicro.

February 29, 2012 by Richard Fichera in Intel

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