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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Apple iPad is on its way!
Cloud wars for the desktop are about to begin. Microsoft gets to keep its apps, Apple takes a massive share away quickly with its iPAD while everyone else in the middle [desktop virtualization vendors, PC makers and other HW manufacturers [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing
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EMC loses key 22-year veteran Donatelli to HP, now files lawsuit against him!
In 2001, EMC won a non-compete law suit in Massachusetts against Doron Kempel who was leaving EMC to become CEO of SANgate Systems. He had to wait almost a year before taking up his appointment. Kempel later became chairman and [...]
Panda unleashes first ever Cloud Antivirus solution!
I will be talking to Panda exec team soon myself. What I’ve seen from the embargoed ppt, I am impressed already.
Here are the perfortmance metrics for the internal beta tests!
Why is this better? Because installed antivirus programs–typically from Symantec, McAfee, [...]
Cassatt’s closing down
Sad reality of crushing economic times.
“The big guys copied my story,” says Coleman. Cassatt, he adds, was upended by a slowing economy and by customers skittish about closing big orders or changing existing ways.
“What frustrates me is my own naivete,” [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, Data Center Management Tools, DataCenter
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Google unleashes O3D; ready to empower the clouds like never before!
But both fundamentally challenge the idea that Web apps necessarily are stripped-down, feeble counterparts to the software that runs natively on a personal computer, and they come from a company that has engineering skill, a yen for moving activity to [...]
SAS spends $70 Mn for a Cloud facility; Could they have done it cheaper?
I certainly think so. I am building prototypes with some researchers across the planet and also talking to some NGDC builders to see what they are spending in building the containerized “DC-in-a-box”.
Key is to build a NGDC-in-a-box with the following [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, Economy, Environment, Research
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Microsoft’s smartest virtualization play with Windows 7: Run also in Win XP mode!
This will kill all the VMware desktop virtualization in one shot!
XP Mode consists of the Virtual PC-based virtual environment and a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft, Virtualization
Tagged Windows
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Oracle’s play is a game changer, says EMC’s CEO Joe Tucci
The part I liked about this report was the fact that it took Tucci to give a long answer simply because he is puzzled. Anyone will be puzzled if you look at how Larry Ellison is operating. He is a [...]
Microsoft’s revenue falls for the first time in 34 years; Worst not over yet, says CFO
“We remain more cautious than most about the state of the economy,” said Chris Liddell, finance chief, adding that Microsoft’s involvement in a range of business and consumer markets gave it a deeper insight than most other companies.
The comments pointed [...]
Cisco’s play: Will it do an Oracle with Citrix takeover?
One thing I can tell you for sure. If Cisco does come close to acquiring a virtualization vendor, it may go for Citrix. Why? Check out these opportunities:
Hardware business is going to be commodity soon as software gets resilient (Grid-aware)!
Software, [...]
Posted in 2009, Acquisitions, Cloud, Computing, Data Center Management Tools, DataCenter, Ideation, Markets, Microsoft, Storage, Strategy, Virtualization, VMware
Tagged Citrix
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