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SAP and Oracle both announced new components for their growing governance, risk and compliance (GRC) technology suit in the past 10 days. GRC applications are typically sold to public and large privately held companies, especially those operating in heavily-regulated industries, and are intended ...
Consolidation isn't just something that happens to physical things like data centers. It's also a phenomenon affecting financial services and other industries that are among the biggest consumers of IT products and services. Ivan Chong, general manager of Informatica's data quality business unit,...
When the rumor that IBM would acquire Sun hit yesterday's Wall Street Journal, you just know that many tech execs got a glint in their eye. Either they were at a big company that would have to protect its interests in the market or they worked at a small company that might be desperate for a way out of the cash burn rate death spiral. Whether or not IBM and Sun actually hit the altar is immaterial. A new wave of M&A mania is likely to start. But most of it is going to be desperation and futility.
IBM, said to be in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems, is showing that it will not be left behind in the battle for control of the data center, which is fast becoming the center of the IT universe. And it's becoming equally clear that the Armageddon in the data center will be winner-take-all. ...
There are many reasons why IBM would be interested in purchasing Sun. But one of the biggest is the color of money. When you go through the numbers, a Sun deal would not only be lucrative, but dirt cheap.
Today's Wall Street Journal story about acquisition talks between IBM and Sun may be surprising because of its suddenness. But on another, this is just another of the shakeups that will be happening because of underlying conditions in the tech industry. The result will be new alliances, former partners turning on each other, and uncertainty for vendors and buyers alike.
While most chief marketing officers say they plan to spend more money on marketing, or at least keep spending levels flat, CMOs in technology companies are cutting marketing spend. According to a survey of over 650 CMOs conducted by the 4,000-member Chief Marketing Officer Council, 62% of marketi...
Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), introduced today, looks like an attempt to lock up the data center in much the same way that Microsoft tried to establish hegemony over the software stack. UCS promises to unite computing, networking, storage, and virtualization resources in order to gi...
Windows 7 to have IE off switch to keep EU happy; Eminem's original label won't get extra for download royalties; Google settles infringement suit; Hitachi Displays pleads guilty to LCD panel price fixing; professor sues LED manufacturers; Hynix to pay Rambus (maybe); and Apple sued for exploding iTouch.
Back in August, I suggested that Amazon was strategically pushing far past its retailing business model. If you include any sort of electronic retailing, some new business areas that the company is undertaking provide additional support of the view. Two of the latest are downloadable games and selling webinars. But it also seems logical to ask if be long before the natural outcome of Amazon's cloud activities and massive information on consumers is a set of crosshairs on Google.
The next big Internet land-grab is about to begin, and the fight between big business fearing trademark infringement and new companies poised to exploit virgin territory is heating up. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is planning to issue new top-level domains (TLDs...
AOL's new soon-to-be CEO Tim Armstrong will be in for quite a sea change from his previous gig at Google. The lingering question: Why would you leave Google for AOL? It's an interesting question raised by Sam Diaz offline. For all the talk (Techmeme) about Armstrong's enthusiasm about a "...
Google is going after Skype, eBay's voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service and, more importantly, PayPal, its online payment business. Google announced that it's releasing Google Voice to registered users of Grand Central, the VoIP company it acquired in June 2007, and will release it to the general ...
EMC could be in the market for an enterprise search company. As opposed to Web search, enterprise search is used by companies internally to help comply with legal discovery requirements, identify documents that can be archived in inexpensive storage devices, and increasingly, to improve productiv...
With all the talk of cloud computing from this vendor and that analyst, it is easy to naturally confuse the cloud with a series of scalable technologies interconnected via the Internet. But that really misses the point. Technology is just the miss. The real thunder and lightning comes from the information, and how companies put that together. Just look at MediaCloud, a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in cooperation with Calais, a semantic Web tool from Thomson Reuters.
