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 HP and Cast Iron Systems, the Saas/cloud integrator, have partnered up to offer integration services to SMBs looking to reduce costs by leveraging SaaS applications in their existing infrastructures and applications. Cast Iron calls the announcement “significant” because HP’s initial c...May. 29, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,237 |
 A Massachusetts court has decided that the former president of EMC’s storage business, David Donatelli, until a few weeks ago the company’s number two guy in charge of the bulk of its ~$15 billion in revenues, can go to work for HP after all. He just can’t do the job he was hired for. ...May. 29, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,273 |
 A Massachusetts court has decided that the former president of EMC’s storage business, David Donatelli, until a few weeks ago the company’s number two guy in charge of the bulk of its ~$15 billion in revenues, can go to work for HP after all. He just can’t do the job he was hired for. ...May. 29, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 974 |
 HP came in with revenues down 3% to $27.4 billion in its second quarter or, if you look at it another way, up 3% in local currency because of the gyrations in the dollar. All segments but services were hit a lot worse than the final numbers look. Net earnings were down 17% to $1.7 bill...May. 20, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,033 |
 HP has recalled about 70,000 lithium-ion notebook batteries as a fire precaution. A couple exploded. The widgets affected were sold between August 2007 and March 2008 and include the HP Pavilion (models dv2000, dv2500, dv2700, dv6000, dv6500, dv6700, dv9000, dv9500 and dv9700); Compaq ...May. 19, 2009 03:55 PM EDT Reads: 667 |
 Well here’s a chirpy little thought from the Wall Street Journal. It said Thursday that businesses have stopped slashing their IT budgets. Although it probably felt worse, corporate tech spending was supposedly down 8% last year and is supposed to contract 3% this year (9% according to...May. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,990 Replies: 1 |
 Sun had a suitor other than IBM and Oracle. It says so in its proxy statement where it tells of its blow-by-blow adventures since November 6 when Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, thinly disguised in the account as Party A, approached Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about a takeover. Sometime b...May. 15, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,454 |
 EMC has clipped the wings of the erstwhile president of its storage division David Donatelli, who suddenly resigned last Monday and tried to flit to rival HP to run its storage, servers and networking. EMC sued to enforce his one-year non-compete and got the preliminary injunction it a...May. 5, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,807 |
 In a surprise raid, HP Tuesday carried off the president of EMC's Storage Division David Donatelli - the guy responsible for the bulk of its rival's revenues - and made him head of its $19.4 billion-a-year Enterprise Servers and Storage (ESS) unit throwing him its Cisco-competitive Pro...Apr. 30, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,574 |
 HP has blended its Insight Control suite with Microsoft’s System Center, a k a ICE-SC, to create what it calls the industry’s first integrated management environment, a perch it will occupy until its rivals copy the move. It’s supposed to lower infrastructure costs and improve uptime. ...Apr. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,104 |
 In case you missed it Oracle announced this morning that it will be acquiring Sun Microsystems. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion. This news means the technology landscape is about to radically change and quite possibly, Sun hardware is now dead. The software aspe...Apr. 20, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,535 |
 Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it’s been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it’s had such a thing in min...Apr. 20, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,119 |
 Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it's been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it's had such a thing in min...Apr. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,179 |
 Despite crippling losses, filing for Chapter 11, massive job cuts, the abrupt departure of its CEO and CFO, a search for somebody to buy it or merge with it, incapacitating debt, delisting threats and a patent suit, Spansion, the spun-off former AMD-Toshiba joint venture, has finally r...Apr. 20, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 633 |
 Late last year I received a phone call from McKinsey & Co in regards to helping provide some insights into the cost benefits of moving to a cloud computing environment. For one reason or another we were not able to connect to complete the discussion, which after the last couple days se...Apr. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,288 |
 HP, whose third-rank Unix franchise could have been really pushed to the back of the bus if Sun took IBM up on its offer a couple of weeks ago and they combined forces, has enhanced its Serviceguard software and its HP-UX 11i operating environment to lower planned downtime and associat...Apr. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 Trapped down a dark alley with nowhere else to go, Sun is ready to restart takeover talks with IBM provided IBM puts more starch in its commitment to actually close the deal despite whatever regulatory hurdles it has to vault, according to Bloomberg, which has it from two people "famil...Apr. 16, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,762 |
 According to the latest numbers out of Gartner and IDC, HP has overtaken Dell in the US PC market for the first time since, gee, 2001. Dell lost the lead worldwide to HP in 2006. In Q1 Dell's US market share dropped to 26.3%, down 4.1%, while HP captured 27.6% of American shipments, up...Apr. 16, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,469 |
 In reporting the company's numbers Tuesday evening Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that "We believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and that the industry is returning to normal seasonal patterns." If true, there will be dancing in the streets but even if true there are goin...Apr. 15, 2009 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,171 |
 EMC Tuesday rolled out a spanking new built-from-the-ground-up high-end storage architecture for the cloud and its federated kin, the virtual data center, a k a the internal cloud, widgetry that's been a couple of years in development. Dubbed the Virtual Matrix Architecture, it promise...Apr. 14, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,866 |
 Tech Mahinda, an Indian outsourcing firm 31% owned by BT, has won the auction for 51% of the scandal-rocked Satyam Computer Services for a mere $580 million, not much for a company that was valued at $7 billion a year ago. Tech Mahinda offered $1.16 (58 rupees) a share, a 23% premium; ...Apr. 14, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,079 |
 Despairing of getting an answer from just about anybody's customer service these days, people are turning instead to Twitter to solve their product problems. And seeing an opportunity to monetize that fact Salesforce.com has promised an extension of its two-month-old Service Cloud call...Apr. 13, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,085 |
 Cloud computing offers a fantastic opportunity to businesses of all sizes. However, there are pitfalls that no-one wants to talk about. This session will talk to some of the darker sides to cloud computing - those around security and availability. Understanding where the issues lie wil...Apr. 13, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,479 |
 The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They're slow, underutilized, don't scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they're multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-l...Apr. 13, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,502 |
 VMware has taken on the distinct scent of Microsoft again. It just hired another ex-Microsoftie for its senior ranks. Besides CEO Paul Maritz and second-in-command, COO Tod Nielsen, both Microsoft émigrés, there's now chief development officer and EVP Richard McAniff, late corporate VP...Apr. 13, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,989 |
 Software-as-a-Service brings together many of the best characteristics of corporate IT systems and the Internet to form a new method of software delivery that is reliable, flexible and cost effective; however, this model is not without its challenges, particularly with regard to profit...Apr. 13, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,902 |
 Rackable Systems, the large-scale server wannabe, said Wednesday that it's buying the now bankrupt SGI for roughly $25 million in cash plus the assumption of certain liabilities. The once-great SGI closed at 41 cents a share Tuesday with a market cap of $4.78 million.Apr. 8, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,584 |
 The three finance guys were arrested over the weekend. The company's founder, his brother, Satyam's ex-managing director Rama Raju and the company's ex-CFO Srinivas Vadlamani were arrested in January when the long-running scheme finally unraveled. They have remained in jail.Apr. 8, 2009 04:46 PM EDT Reads: 1,261 |
 One topic that keeps reoccurring in my various conversations is the sudden interest in cloud centric M&A activities thanks in part to the recent IBM / Sun rumors. Being that I continuously find myself in the midst of a lot of the back room, off the record type conversations I thought I...Apr. 6, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,589 |
 Sun's board rejected a formal IBM offer for the company Saturday as too low, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently the price IBM offered was $9.40 a share or less, down from a reported $9.55 late last week. IBM pulled its roughly $7 billion offer off the table on Sunday, acc...Apr. 5, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,628 |
 Satyam, the corrupt Indian outsourcer whose founder lied about its revenues for years, has changed the rules of the redemptive sale of a majority 51% stake in the company. It was supposed to be a sealed bid auction, winner take all. Now it says – evidently trying to wring every dime ou...Apr. 3, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,946 |
 The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...Apr. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,547 |
 HP may dump Windows for Android in some of its netbooks, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper says HP’s got programmers testing the freebie Linux-based cell phone operating system for a potential netbook and hasn’t decided yet whether to market it. Apr. 1, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,026 |
 In the end, it’s all about money – how much do you spend for just maintaining the status quo, and how much on supporting truly differentiating business initiatives. This drives an imperative for dynamic infrastructures, increasing resource utilization and reducing labor costs, and for ...Mar. 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,319 |
 HP has come up with widgetry such as its so-called Sea of Sensors, 32 observations posts that track thermal activity and adjust fans, memory and I/O for cooling and efficiency. Users can also pick from four power supplies to match their workload, a technique that promises 92% or better...Mar. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,182 |
 Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret "Open Cloud Manifesto" that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn't identify the author or authors of this manifesto but figures its supporters - one would guess organ...Mar. 29, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,962 Replies: 1 |
 In a completely uncharacteristic and counter-culture move – the recession has slashed a lot of dividends – Oracle is going to pay out its very first dividend. It’s going to pay five cents a share starting in May at the cost of about a billion a year. No, it’s not coming out of Larry’s ...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,933 |
 The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday morning that the company was expected to inform what the paper could only call “a large number” of American workers that their jobs were either being eliminated or sent to India. IBM@Alliance suggests the layoffs will be on Thursday. IBM’s earning...Mar. 25, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,519 |
 Goldman Sachs expects Cisco’s advance into servers to have no impact on HP or IBM in the intermediate term. The broker reckons Cisco’s ramp will be slow and user trials of its high-end systems long. It also figures that the fact that its server seems to be compatible only with its own ...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,588 |
 Michael Dell claimed Tuesday that simply the talk of a Sun-IBM tie-up is an "enormous opportunity" for Dell servers since it creates an air of uncertainty around the future of Sun's Solaris-based boxes and accelerates the move to x86 Linux machines. According to reports Dell's CEO said...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,381 |
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