Economy
VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle
By PrasenJit Sarkar at 30 June, 2009, 9:39 am
Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out budding threats. They helped Microsoft battle upstart Netscape in the late 1990s. Now they’re on the receiving end.
Maritz and Nielsen run VMware, a software company with $1.9 billion in revenue that has become the standard-setter [...]
M&A Advisory: Cisco should pursue Citrix
By Tarry Singh at 9 June, 2009, 2:07 pm
Fool’s advice is what I’d give John. Citrix is (strategically) in the same position as Sun. Sun has loads of cool stuff to really kick some asses, it just needed a daddy. Citrix could benefit massively by being under Cisco’s arm. And hey don’t forget Citrix are the Xen dudes. They will eventually rock the [...]
Read More >>Telco Cloud Attack! - Verizon goes to U.S and Europe with its Cloud offerings
By Tarry Singh at 4 June, 2009, 2:00 am
Getting a realtime control over your business is one of the key reasons why firms will [eventually] go for cloud offerings. Clearly you can see that the cloud market is suddenly an opportunity for all sorts of parties such as Telco’s , System Integrators, HW vendors, Software vendors. As the marketplace gets crowded, there may [...]
Read More >>Barrons: Cisco tops the DOW; future could be challenging
By Tarry Singh at 2 June, 2009, 1:40 am
I have been collecting a lot of exciting data to write a detailed article on likening Cisco, Ericsson’s to the cool generation which is surely going to find itself in troubled waters by 2018. For now I liked this article at Barron’s. Good thing of such troublesome articles is that it can re-awaken the tired [...]
Read More >>Report: Amazon to lead the post-recession boom with Cloud Computing
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:30 am
In the report, which analyzes the forces commoditizing enterprise storage, authors George Gilbert and Juergen Urbanski write that leading storage vendors are planning their innovation around a 3-year time frame, expecting adoption of new storage technologies to coincide with emergence from the current recession. An accompanying survey supports this analysis, as a majority of respondents [...]
Read More >>SAS spends $70 Mn for a Cloud facility; Could they have done it cheaper?
By Tarry Singh at 26 April, 2009, 3:55 am
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 in mind:
- High-density (packed volumes should be efficient)
- Portability and transportability
- Pluggability (move containers across [...]
Microsoft’s revenue falls for the first time in 34 years; Worst not over yet, says CFO
By Tarry Singh at 24 April, 2009, 2:37 am
“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 to a more pessimistic outlook than that provided last week by Intel, which said the [...]
Venture Capital funding plummets to a 11 year low!
By Tarry Singh at 18 April, 2009, 5:34 pm
Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 billion in 549 deals in the first quarter of 2009, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterly investment activity was down 47 percent in dollars and 37 percent in deals from the fourth [...]
Read More >>2020: World-wide Data Center Crisis?
By Tarry Singh at 13 April, 2009, 3:37 am
We wrote an IEEE paper where I will be talking about it in June. We are proposing an extensible architecture in which we propose to connect the APIs (Power/MDM APIs, Data Center APIs and Consumption-based Open Standards API etc) through and through the whole value chain. With more and more Data Centers being built and [...]
Read More >>Cloud Computing Savings Calculator from PHASE 2
By Tarry Singh at 10 April, 2009, 3:36 am
PHASE 2 recently launched a cloud computing savings calculator. Analysis performed with this tool shows that companies can save an average of 70% on IT costs over a two year period by using a PHASE 2 hosted software application.
Most small to medium sized businesses
are feeling the economic crunch from the current recession. President Obama noted [...]
