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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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Dell Seeks to Benefit from Sun’s Dilemma
Offering to migrate Sun customers from their legacy Unix systems to its Nehalem-based Linux servers

By: Maureen O'Gara
Apr. 17, 2009 02:15 PM

With Sun's destiny uncertain - and its users undoubtedly nail-bitingly anxious - Dell, which is not in great shape itself, is looking to land a few competitive body blows on the stumbling giant.

It's offering to migrate Sun customers from their legacy Unix systems to its Nehalem-based Linux blade, rack and tower servers.

It claims, for instance, that Solaris, which Dell sells, on its Intel-based PowerEdge servers runs databases 14 times faster than Solaris-based Sun Fire hardware.

It claims its consultants, with a Unix-to-Linux Migration ROI Calculator in hand as well as a bunch of other services and tools, can make the transition fast and seamless.

Sun of course has its own Nehalem-based Sun Fire blades, racks and workstation just announced Tuesday replete with flash, embedded high-performance networking and advanced thermal management among their charms.

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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

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