IBM Sun saga: Sun’s stock tumbles as things get confrontational!
By Tarry Singh at 6 April, 2009, 11:05 am
WSJ was the one’s who started off with this buzz. Some are already speculating and asking if someone should go to jail for starting all this up and for having done the following:
- First helping Sun sky-rocket the stock price to more than 80%
- Then make everyone else fight in all sorts of camps as [...]
IBM, Sun merger announcement coming on Monday, 6th April 2009
By Tarry Singh at 4 April, 2009, 12:31 pm
Denverpost is reporting:
IBM intends to pay between $9 and $10 a share for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun, said the person, who declined to be named late Thursday as the talks are still underway. At those prices, it would be the largest acquisition in IBM’s history.
Both companies have major operations in Colorado. IBM employs about [...]
IBM’s Sun acquisition could increase its lead in Storage and Server market!
By Tarry Singh at 21 March, 2009, 12:57 pm
According to this print screen of Gartner, this could put IBM at a stronger #1 in Server market and #2 in Storage market. Then IBm would have duly responded to Cisco’s move. Dell would seriously have to consider its position, HP would be forced to work on its numbers and EDS digestion and not to [...]
Read More >>IBM in talks to buy Sun for $6.5Bn
By Tarry Singh at 18 March, 2009, 1:55 pm
Well Cisco’s announcement will lead to much bigger and mega M&A. More market consolidation will happen as we move towards the Cloud Computing.
Any deal would likely bring very close scrutiny from regulatory authorities, given both firm’s roles in the server, storage and systems software markets.
The Journal goes on to claim Sun has been hawking itself [...]
IBM frontrunner to acquire troubled Satyam Computers?
By Tarry Singh at 7 March, 2009, 12:44 pm
This is definitely going to make IBM a very well received company in the Indian Subcontinent and surely with the Indian Government. We’ll still see if that really happens or not.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India approved plans for Satyam to sell 51 percent of the company, the Hyderabad-based software-services provider said today. International [...]
IBM and SAP test live workload mobility across Clouds
By Tarry Singh at 3 March, 2009, 11:05 am
Our friend James [at Cisco] is carrying this news from CeBIT.
At CeBIT, IBM and SAP today are announcing a ground breaking technology demonstration in which SAP applications were moved live between IBM POWER6 servers running in remote locations. The technology, developed as a part of the European Union’s RESERVIOR project, is targeted at service providers [...]
IBM willing to guarantee Cloud security
By Tarry Singh at 17 February, 2009, 11:31 am
With many people predicting big things for cloud computing in 2009, it was no surprise to see IBM make a slew of announcements regarding their hosted operations during their Pulse service management conference in Las Vegas.
The Armonk, New York-based company announced partnerships with Juniper and Amazon as well as a new drag and drop interface [...]
IBM to unveil its Private Cloud strategy
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2009, 5:41 am
IBM will unveil its cloud computing strategy today at a meeting in Shanghai, becoming the first technology company to offer a service that lets customers buy the equivalent of overdraft protection for data centers.
Jayashree Subrahmonia, director of IBM Cloud Labs, said that customers are finding that their own data centers, which for marketing reasons are [...]
IBM’s Lotus lands on the Cloud!
By Tarry Singh at 19 January, 2009, 2:35 am
International Business Machines Corp., the world’s third-biggest software maker, will release an online version of its Lotus programs, a bid to attract new customers by tapping into so-called cloud computing.
LotusLive will allow users to create networks with business partners and customers, IBM said today in a statement. The software is delivered through the Internet, which [...]
IBM helps Highmark with Green Data Center
By Tarry Singh at 24 December, 2008, 12:01 pm
IBM’s technologies and services are aimed at helping clients sharply reduce data center energy consumption. The data center is an area of information technology (IT) that can reap substantial and lasting benefits by using ‘greener’ technology. IBM’s analysis of Highmark’s data center included a data center energy efficiency assessment and a thermal analysis using IBM’s [...]
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