DataCenter
Astadia launches ROI calculator for the Cloud
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:13 am
I did a few calculations myself with their tool and although I prefer to rely on my own metrics of Asset OwnerShip, I have come to understand that each model has its own ways of looking at things. This model is fine but I prefer to do my own calculations at my customers. Many I.T. [...]
Read More >>Dell buys 3PAR for $1.15Bn
By Tarry Singh at 16 August, 2010, 6:17 am
Dell is changing the enterprise storage array supplier landscape by buying 3PAR for $1.15bn, adding an enterprise block storage array to its storage product roster and complementing the iSCSI EqualLogic storage arrays it bought in 2007. Dell paid $1.4bn for EqualLogic, and it’s turned out to be an astute and successful purchase. 3PAR makes InServe [...]
Read More >>Accenture continues to win outsourcing contracts
By Tarry Singh at 17 June, 2010, 3:47 pm
As per the terms of the contract, which is in addition to an existing contract signed last year, Accenture will provide management services to Henkel that are expected to reduce costs and streamline its activities. Though we remain unclear about the financial impact of the deal on Accenture’s revenue stream, we continue to believe that [...]
Read More >>HCL wins SG $110 Million outsourcing deal with Singapore Exchange
By Tarry Singh at 17 June, 2010, 3:44 pm
Under the agreement, HCL will provide Singapore Exchange (SGX) with infrastructure support and management services including the exchange’s Reach initiative. The Reach initiative announced in June 2010, aims to create a trading engine, establish a data center offering co-location facilities and connect trading communities in global financial hubs to Singapore. HCL’s solution architecture for SGX [...]
Read More >>KVM Cloud: Red Hat wins another cloud vendor in Netherlands
By Tarry Singh at 11 June, 2010, 3:25 am
Interesting to note why virtualization vendors need to have the VM numbers from all their partners. Oxilion said it has been working for more than a year to put together the technology for its Virtual Data Center public cloud, and while not naming names, said that other alternatives were too costly and “the traditional proprietary [...]
Read More >>JP Morgan Analysis: NetApp beats EMC in ease of implementation in Data Centers
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:29 am
NetApp is becoming the lead storage vendor in virtualised environments because it offers a more seamless and cost-effective approach than EMC. That’s the view of Mark Moscowitz, a J P Morgan analyst, in a note published on May 25. He says there is a secular shift to mid-range storage which is benefitting NetApp more than [...]
Read More >>SAP buys Sybase for $5.8 Bn in attempt to fend of Oracle
By Tarry Singh at 12 May, 2010, 1:51 pm
SAP co-Chief Executive Officers Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe are on the lookout for acquisitions to keep from losing customers to rival Oracle and reverse the sales declines that contributed to the February departure of their predecessor, Leo Apotheker. Sybase gives its new owner software that helps financial institutions analyze information. ”The deal makes [...]
Read More >>2010: Outsourcing Market to rely on contract renewals; Global Sourcing Advisories to play crucial role
By Tarry Singh at 12 May, 2010, 1:34 am
While many analysts and research firms are currently in a flux-state and saying what everyone is saying. I wanted to share some data here to explain why the year 2010 will be defining. There is a lot of talk and FUD being created as to the end of global sourcing or slower uptake and maybe [...]
Read More >>VMware’s SpringSource buys an IMDB vendor GemStone
By Tarry Singh at 7 May, 2010, 9:56 am
This is expected part of their strategy to build the cloud solutions within the private cloud jacket. In Memory databases are great for homogeneous financial applications and have never been tested or tried out in complex, not-generally tested and tried out workloads. But it is for sure that the apps that are slowly being built [...]
Read More >>HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
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