Monthly Archives: September 2009

IT Outsourcing M&A frenzy to continue as tech, BPO vendors seek recurring revenues!

It is very obvious that this market will contract dramatically to the point that most of the clients that are locked in several containers would be up for new parent. This parent could be a tech vendor and I guess [...]

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Severe market contraction is coming: After Dell, Xerox buys ACS for $6.4 Bn deal!

Xerox, based in Norwalk, Conn., has suffered from declining sales of copiers and printers, and the accompanying diminishing uses of ink, toner and paper. The deal for Dallas-based ACS is expected to triple Xerox’s services revenue to an estimated $10 [...]

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Virtualize legacy SAN to SSD SAN with Dataram’s XcelaSAN Appliance!

Neat stuff, check out this video
Princeton, NJ, September 28, 2009 – Dataram Corporation [NASDAQ: DRAM], a worldwide leader of advanced memory solutions, today unveiled the XcelaSAN® storage optimization appliance, the industry’s first solution to seamlessly deliver up to 30x performance [...]

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TurboHercules:The VMware of [IBM] mainframe launches; IdeationCloud+ Analyst report coming soon!

It was only a matter of time that this secure and well protected mainframe market, mostly dominated by IBM comes under attack as TurbuHercules. Before we ponder about what TurboHercules does, it is very interesting to do the following analysis:

Accelerator [...]

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Microsoft’s Dublin Data Center is air-cooled, no chillers

The data centre – one of the largest construction projects in the Republic of Ireland over last 12 months – has taken approximately one million man-hours to complete and involved a workforce close to 2,100 at peak. The facility covers [...]

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Desktop Virtualization 2010: A market ripe for Citrix to own, Desktops in Cloud coming soon?

I do agree mostly with this analysis. XenClient and Citrix’s commitment to its own hypervisor which — as some say — will be merged into Hyper-V’s own flavor, still puts Citrix to top the Virtualization game on desktop. If Gartner’s [...]

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EMC CEO Joe Tucci: A punishing sea of change is coming!

And he said it so very well actually. I fully agree with what Joe is up to. It is time NOW to start planning and going after major moves. Oracle’s play on Sun is a major step in the “all-in” [...]

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VM Memory: What’s VMware and Intel up to?

This is truly interesting, especially because the work that I am doing with couple of folks around memory virtualization is taking not only the SIGnatured aspect of you data center from an ecological perspective but also from the ultimate cost-cutter [...]

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EU exposes Intel’s intentions by pressuring HW vendors to shun AMD!

The European Commission sees that differently, alleging that the company’s actions ultimately harmed consumers by limiting competition.
It said there were “no grounds” for Intel’s allegations of bias and that it had carefully and comprehensively gathered and weighed the evidence: some [...]

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Microsoft goes after Symantec, McAfee with free Security Essentials for home users!

Ina reporting:
Microsoft first announced its plans for the product, then code-named Morro, last November, at the same time the company said it was scrapping its paid Windows Live OneCare product.
Public beta testing of Security Essentials started in June, with Microsoft [...]

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