IBM's decision to adopt Opteron was based on customer feedback, according to Mark Shearer, the company's vice president of eServer systems. Advanced Micro Devices' new Opteron processor has received a major vote of confidence from IBM.
Big Blue, like third-place Sun, has been elevating and consolidating its technical-computing push. Sun Microsystems has started promoting an effort to return to its high-performance computing roots, as it aims at the weakened SGI and the ascendant...
Subsequently, its Voice Express suite of packaged speech applications can be deployed as a software-only configuration which eases the move to IP-based IVR. This has been evidenced time and again with consolidation, offshoring and early moves to IP...
Large companies are consolidating fragmented IT environments and small and mid-sized businesses are investing in their first true integrated business systems. Consolidation is tipped to continue and the AMR's figures show the top five ERP vendors...
The analyst said: "Nevertheless, many banks in the region must now either contemplate investing in legacy payment system consolidation or choose third-party offerings. They should plan replacement and consolidation of siloed legacy systems and...
We are therefore partly responsible for suppliers buying market share, expanding their product portfolio, consolidating their back-office functions and offshoring production to Asia. Phil Young, head of IT operations, Amtrak Express Parcels