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 The folks at the Wall Street Journal who brought us tales of IBM buying Sun for $6.5 billion-$8 billion last week were saying by Friday that due diligence was holding up any announcement. The paper seemed to think that IBM lawyers were paying particular attention to Sun's many differen...Mar. 24, 2009 11:32 AM EDT Reads: 3,581 |
 HP’s got a new entry-level family of NonStop Integrity servers to target at smaller emerging markets and the NonStop installed base still using Mips-based products whose monthly maintenance and support costs, it says, will take a dive if they trade up. It’s got in mind SMEs in healthca...Mar. 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,384 |
 VMware CEO Paul Maritz and former SGI senior VP Beau Vrolyk are angel investors in the San Mateo, California start-up Apture, where Vrolyk is executive chairman. They were part of Apture’s first venture round worth $4.1 million led by Clearstone Venture Partners. Apture, which is a way...Mar. 20, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,558 |
 Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, C...Mar. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,793 |
 Cisco CEO John Chambers Monday became the latest in a long line of visionaries to come down from the mountain top with an architectural roadmap to the Promised Land at an exploitable industry inflection point. If the purportedly game-changing next-generation platform scheme succeeds, C...Mar. 17, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,892 |
 CEO Joe Tucci said for what must be the umpteenth time Tuesday that EMC has no intention of parting with its roughly 84% majority stake in virtualization leader VMware. The occasion was EMC’s first analyst day in a dog’s age. EMC has been under pretty constant market pressure since VMw...Mar. 15, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,459 |
 CEO John Chambers and "senior executives from several market leading partners" are supposed to wax eloquent on the "evolution of the data center" and Unified Computing, which, as we understand it, is a way of getting the blades to talk directly to the storage servers complements of Cis...Mar. 15, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,995 |
 Last week's Wall Street scuttlebutt that Oracle might make a so-called "strategic" move and acquire Virtual Iron has now blossomed into a couple of unconfirmed press reports that the pair has progressed to a signed letter of intent. Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert, who put the rumor...Mar. 11, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,012 |
 Stratus Technologies is giving away VMware's Infrastructure Foundation software for free with its Intel-based ftServer fault-tolerant systems. It calls it its "We Feel Your Pain" campaign. According to SVP, product & solutions development Allan Jennings, "Justifying any IT investment t...Mar. 11, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,504 |
 HP has come up with a timely new device that promises to cut the capital cost of data centers by 15%-25%. And increase their efficiency while it's at it. It claims it's "industry changing." It's called multi-tiered hybrid design and HP says nobody else has thought of it before - or pac...Mar. 10, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,031 |
 A majority 51% of the big survival-threatened Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, whose disgraced founder and former CEO confessed in January to loading its books with a billion dollars in "fictitious" assets and "non-existent" cash, was put up for auction Monday. Those coo...Mar. 9, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 According to the Wall Street blog, The Motley Fool, both IBM and Oracle have been among the flock of 50-odd companies that have responded to the possible sale of Indian consulting/outsourcing biggie Satyam Computer Services, whose founder and subsequently ex-CEO Ramalinga Raju, now in ...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,673 |
 Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide ra...Mar. 9, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
 Heidrick & Struggles, the big headhunter, says it's seeing "clients in need of immediate access to top talent who can step into short-term situations and solve problems quickly, or provide operating insights and advise" so it's setting up what it calls a Chief Advisor Network to fill t...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,443 |
 Think in terms of all of your IT assets as part of a portfolio of innovation, and it becomes easier to think of you to put them to creative use that drives operational efficiency.Mar. 7, 2009 07:42 PM EST Reads: 2,358 |
 HP announced it has improved the user experience and simplified management of its HP thin client portfolio with enhanced software choices included on every HP thin client. The enhanced HP Device Manager 4.0 is just one of four choices in HP’s portfolio of thin client management options...Mar. 4, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 1,736 |
 The Justice Department is investigating storage biggie EMC, the parent company of virtualization leader VMware, for kickbacks and overcharging on government contracts. According to the Wall Street Journal, NetApp, an EMC rival, is expected to pay $128 million for overbilling the govern...Mar. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 1,247 |
 HP is closing down its 11-month-old Upline consumer online storage/backup service. It’s given customers until March 31 to remove their files and says it will return any paid subscriptions in full by refunding the user’s credit card or PayPal account. In a terse message on the site, whi...Mar. 3, 2009 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,100 |
 HP and Sun Microsystems announced an expanded multi-year partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and provide software technical support for Sun’s Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms. Under the terms of the new original equipment ...Feb. 25, 2009 01:15 PM EST Reads: 729 |
 With decreasing product sales, their revenues down almost 20% and no relief in sight, HP CEO Mark Hurd is cutting pay. He’ll cut his own base pay 20% (say $300,000 and peanuts compared to total compensation), executives’ 10%-15%, employees’ 2.5%-5%. He said in an internal e-mail that h...Feb. 19, 2009 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,940 |
 The recession and the global lack of demand have hit even the great and good HP, which turned in numbers Wednesday that were worse-than-expected. Earnings were down 13% on revenue up just 1% in its fiscal first quarter ended January 31. It reported declines practically across-the-board...Feb. 18, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 783 |
 HP expanded its Mission Critical Services. HP Proactive Select offers customers an innovative way to access a variety of assessment, availability, performance, planning and training services. With HP Proactive Select, customers purchase credits that can be used to choose from more than...Feb. 17, 2009 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,433 |
 IDC says there was a "precipitous" drop in the number of PC processors shipped worldwide between the third quarter and the fourth quarter last year - the worst, in fact, since it started tracking such things in 1996 - and it holds out scant hope for this half, which is why even the mig...Feb. 11, 2009 10:37 PM EST Reads: 2,041 |
 HP has expanded its Mission Critical Services. To help organizations keep their infrastructures up and running, HP Proactive Select allows customers to access a variety of assessment, availability, performance, planning and training services. With HP Proactive Select, customers purchas...Feb. 9, 2009 10:45 AM EST Reads: 1,200 |
 HP CEO Mark Hurd’s pay packet last year was worth $42.5 million including a $1.45 million salary and an $18.6 million performance-based cash bonus covering three highly profitable years. Since he arrived in 2005 and before the economic Armageddon, HP sales were up $30 billion and profi...Jan. 24, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,051 |
 Acer has warned that its Q4 revenue will be down 5%-10%, blaming a softening in inventory. Netbook maven Asustek said it won’t meet shipment forecasts and Compal, the second-largest contract manufacturer and supplier to HP, Dell and Lenovo, off 6% in Q4, said laptop shipments could be ...Jan. 17, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,876 |
 HP announced that its entire line of thin clients is now certified for VMware View. The certification, which covers the Microsoft Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded and Linux operating systems, includes rigorous testing and quality assurance with VMware View for enhanced reliability and e...Jan. 17, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,097 |
 For the first time in six years – with the last five averaging 15% increases – worldwide PC shipments were down a marginal 0.4% in Q4 according to IDC, a faster decline than the researcher had anticipated. It had projected growth of 6.5%. In the US shipments were down 3.5% year-over-ye...Jan. 17, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,405 |
 LeaseWeb and HP have entered into a strategic partnership whose activities will include Green IT. The partnership is focusing on supplying HP solutions which will reduce the energy consumption within the hosting infrastructure. Within the partnership, LeaseWeb will offer a variety of p...Jan. 16, 2009 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,072 |
 HP US is offering folding money for your recyclable techno-junk, the stuff you’ve been meaning to donate to charity or just get rid of because your wife can’t stand it anymore. If it still works and hasn’t been dropped off a 10-story building it might be worth a few bucks. It doesn’t m...Jan. 14, 2009 03:12 PM EST Reads: 1,886 |
 Computer Lab International has announced the appointment of Joe Ryan as the company's Director of Western U.S. and International Sales. Ryan will help guide Computer Lab's sales and marketing strategies in the virtualization, security, and cloud computing markets. Joe Ryan brings over ...Jan. 10, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,590 |
 Focusing on an evolving business environment in which mobile warriors and entrepreneurs need to improve efficiencies in the workplace and stay connected while on the go, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, (TAIS), announced a ne...Jan. 9, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,262 |
ParAccel has announced its move to San Diego in order to accommodate the company’s growth. Its new San Diego facilities will feature a state-of-the-art customer benchmark and briefing center to accommodate an increasing demand for proofs of concept (POC) and corporate due diligence v... Jan. 8, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,286 |
 It’s going to offer North American schools K-12 a $519 box bearing SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop through its resellers. Novell has collected a repository of 40-odd open source packages on its openSUSE web site that the kids can tap for coursework and teachers can tap for, say, online t...Dec. 16, 2008 02:45 AM EST Reads: 3,182 |
 As HP chows down on EDS and digests it, EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer said he's had enough and is going to bail at the end of the year. Originally EDS was supposed to be a free-standing HP subsidiary with Rittenmeyer reporting to HP CEO Mark Hurd. Now it's going to be absorbed by Ann Livermo...Dec. 15, 2008 08:00 PM EST Reads: 4,055 |
 What with all this talk about virtual desktops and rich user experiences, HP figured it had better bolster its thin client protocols. It's gussied up the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) so HP thin clients will have out-of-the-box multimedia and USB device support and look more ...Dec. 9, 2008 08:25 AM EST Reads: 1,582 |
 HP, which lifted its skirt and showed everybody its panties last week, officially released its better-than-expected fiscal Q4 results Monday and repeated its relatively aggressive guidance for the current quarter. In a conference call Monday CEO Mark Hurd said he was confident the comp...Dec. 1, 2008 02:55 AM EST Reads: 3,814 |
 The day after Intel slashed its guidance and told the press that “orders just died,” AMD, a company laboring under a really bad karma, said it’s started selling Shanghai, its first 45nm quad-core Opteron chip, a few months earlier than expected and plunk in the middle of an economic ap...Nov. 13, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,919 |
Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the c... Nov. 13, 2008 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,122 |
SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in... Nov. 12, 2008 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,877 |
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