• The Real Story Behind Sun’s Breakthrough Economics with Sun Storage J4000 (Part 2)
    14 August 2008 - With today’s creative marketing, we sometimes need to look beyond the vendor’s viewpoint in order to understand the real value of a new solution. For ... more »
  • EMC CX4 Redefines the Paradigm of Midrange Storage
    05 August 2008 - EMC just revamped its CLARiiON midrange storage platform with the CX4 generation of products. The CX4 systems employ a new controller design, which ... more »
  • Software Licensing Can Be a Virtual Minefield
    22 July 2008 - Yesterday, as part of IDEAS ongoing research into the key industry players, I attended the annual Unisys Asia Pacific Analyst day held in Sydney ... more »

Competitive Profiles (CP) is a powerful online tool that provides comprehensive coverage of the features, pricing, and performance characteristics of key infrastructure elements such as servers, storage, and system software. Below are the latest product additions to our CPSystems and CPStorage databases:

CPSystems
  • Dell - PowerEdge M905
  • Dell - PowerEdge M805
  • Bull - Blade Chassis - Enterprise
  • ... more »
 CPStorage
  • IBM - TS2900 Tape Autoloader Express Model (HVEC)
  • IBM - TS2900 Tape Autoloader (AAS)
  • IBM - System Storage TS7650G Server
  • ... more »

Virtualization Analysis Suite

Virtualization
Analysis Suite

This package is specifically designed for technology buyers who are exploring virtualization. It helps with system selection decisions, consolidation planning, scenario modeling, and the analysis of virtualization outcomes.

  • IBM Targets Massive Scale-Out Environments with iDataPlex (Public)...  more »
  • IBM's x3950 M2 Raises the Bar for Industry-Standard Scalability (Public)...  more »