Strategy
Essar’s Aegis group looks for $50-$200M acquisitions in Europe
By Tarry Singh at 23 August, 2010, 9:46 am
Aegis Ltd., an outsourcing unit of India’s Essar Group, will pursue acquisitions in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa during the next two years. The company is targeting deals in the $50 million to $200 million range and intends to complete one each quarter, Managing Director Aparup Sengupta said in an interview in [...]
Read More >>Can Telco’s be the Cloud gods?
By Tarry Singh at 22 August, 2010, 6:22 am
Global telecommunications majors like AT&T, BT, Orange Business Services and Verizon Business could take a large share of the cloud computing pie, giving IT companies a run for their money, says a new report by telecom analysis and consulting firm Ovum. Ovum says these companies have led a “competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, [...]
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 >>5 reasons why Citrix acquisition is necessary for Oracle’s Cloud strategy
By Tarry Singh at 13 April, 2010, 1:45 pm
I have written recently about an imminent Oracle take-over of Citrix. There are several reasons for it and lets go by them wuickly one by one: Collaboration Suite Oracle needs it and Citrix has a proven set of tools that customers use on a daily basis in millions. Oracle needs it to make Cisco shudder [...]
Read More >>Apple’s casual killer move to rout out Intel with A4 and Intrinsity acquisition!
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2010, 11:57 am
Apple has quietly started a revolution without waking the sleeping giant we know as Intel. Soon all the Apple stuff will be sold and as Apple’s iPad going well into the 2015-2020 window we will see a troubled Intel. Same fate awaits firms like Cisco who would be next when the Telepresence and all other [...]
Read More >>Dell seeking to dump China in favor of “safer” sourcing countries?
By Tarry Singh at 25 March, 2010, 7:27 am
These talks, which Dell currently is denying must obviously have taken place, its just that the press got a bit too excited and posted it all on the Indian Press about Indian Prime Minister’s comment on Dell’s plans. Dell and Indian officials are not available for comment. Dell Inc. denied an Indian government release that [...]
Read More >>Google China meltdown: Google stops censoring; redirects to its Hongkong site
By Tarry Singh at 22 March, 2010, 2:50 pm
Google Inc., following through on a promise to stop censoring search results in China, began redirecting traffic from its Chinese home page to the company’s unfiltered Hong Kong site, outside of mainland China. Google will offer uncensored results in simplified Chinese, designed for users on the mainland, according to a blog post today. The move [...]
Read More >>Indian Tech giant Tata Consultancy group to hire 30,000 by 2010-2011!
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2010, 2:52 pm
These are clear sign that firms like TCS will now show muscle power many traditional european and U.S firms will not be able to ignore and definitely not when major customers are increasingly opening up for Indian tech firms. These developments are pretty much in line with what I have been saying for a long [...]
Read More >>Forbes: Why Cloud Computing matters to small businesses
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2010, 12:31 pm
For small and midsize businesses, though, many of the objections to cloud computing simply don’t hold the same power. Barry X Lynn, chairman and CEO of 3Tera, says SMBs “can’t afford not to do cloud computing right now.” Of course, 3Tera is the maker of the AppLogic cloud computer platform, so he can hardly be [...]
Read More >>Niche Modular Data Center Builder, Verari is back as Verari Technologies
By Tarry Singh at 19 January, 2010, 8:31 am
That new company has all of the intellectual property relating to BladeRack2 servers and storage (including its patented vertical cooling technology), and Driggers’ backers shelled out enough dough for Verari Technologies to buy all of the company’s manufacturing and engineering equipment and its product inventories. It is not at this point clear what assets of [...]
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