Brian Cinque, data center architect for Sun Microsystems, intends to put himself out of a job. By 2013, he said in a recent blog post, Sun intends to consolidate 50 percent of its data center footprint, and end up with no data centers within the two years that follow.
Along with SaaS, Sun will employ server [...]

Two giant enterprise vendors announced they are absorbing major players in the SOA middleware and database worlds. Does this mean more consolidation is on the way? Not necessarily.
On Wednesday, BEA finally accepted a generous bid from Oracle Corporation, at $8.5 billion, far more generous than the measly $6.7 billion offered last fall. In a [...]

Symantec Corporation just released its annual “State of the Data Center” report, based on interviews and data collected from 900 enterprise sites throughout the world, and found, no surprise, that data centers are squeezed between tight budgets and rising end-user expectations. Looking forward over the coming year, consolidation and virtualization are the watchwords for data [...]