Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer
You have to know when to hold them, and when to fold them. That's the not
just slightly smug assessment by IBM executives as they reflect -- with
twinkles in their eyes -- on the months-stalled Oracle acquisition of Sun
Microsystems, a deal that IBM initially sought but then declined earlier this
year.
Chatting over drinks at the end of day one of the Software Analyst Connect
2009 conference in Stamford, Conn., IBM Senior Vice President and IBM
Software Group Executive Steve Mills (pictured below) told me last night he
thinks the Oracle-Sun deal will go through, but it won't necessarily be worth
$9.50 a share to Oracle when it does.
"He (Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison) didn't understand the hardware business.
It's a very different business... (more)
HP Virtualization Journal on Ulitzer
Hewlett-Packard this week unleashed a barrage of products aimed at delivering
affordable and simple computing experiences to the desktop.
These include thin-client and desktop virtualization solutions, as well as a
multi-seat offering that can double computing seats. At the same time, the
company targeted the need for data security with a backup and reco... (more)
The popularity of the concepts around cloud computing have caught many IT
departments off-guard.
While business and financial leaders have become enamored of the expected
economic and agility payoffs from cloud models, IT planners often lack
structured plans or even a rudimentary roadmap of how to attain cloud
benefits from their current IT environment.
New market data gathered from recent... (more)
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 46. Our
topic for this episode of BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition centers on
"business commerce clouds." As the general notion of cloud computing
continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds
that multiple business-to-business (B2B) players could use the cloud approach
to build e... (more)
It's hard to over-estimate the importance of performance monitoring and
governance in any move to cloud computing.
Yet most analysts expect cloud computing to become a rapidly growing affair.
That is, infrastructure, data, applications, and even management itself,
originating as services from different data centers, under different control,
and perhaps different ownership.
What then become... (more)
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