Aruba Just The $2.7B Tip Of HP’s Acquisition Iceberg?
HP has announced it will shell out $2.7 billion to acquire Aruba Networks, which trails only Cisco in selling wireless networking equipment, but is far ahead of HP. Acquiring Aruba will change that,...
View ArticleCountdown To Failure: 6 Seconds Or Bust!
Businesses that fail to deliver a positive application experience risk losing as much as 27% of their customer base, according to a new study from CA Technologies. Another key finding: brand loyalty...
View ArticleIBM Plans to Acquire… Cleversafe
IBM has announced its intention to acquire Cleversafe, which is recognized as a leader in the development and manufacture of object-based storage software and appliances. The deal (for undisclosed...
View ArticleIBM and Cleversafe: The Objective Value of Object Storage
IBM’s announced purchase of Cleversafe, a Chicago-based developer and maker of object-based storage software and appliances, is an interesting move for a vendor whose roots are deep in enterprise...
View ArticleCA: A Lot Of Activity, Not Much Movement
LAS VEGAS: At last year’s event, in front of 4,000 customers, CA Technologies said it was tooling up for the application economy; before 5,000 customers — including 45% new customers — at CA World ’15,...
View ArticleCA: Use IT, Or Lose It!
LAS VEGAS: Those who rest easy will no longer be in business, said CA Technologies CEO Mike Grgoire in his opening keynote to 5,000 customers plus assorted partners and staff at CA World ’15. “Today...
View ArticleCA & CAW15: The Rest Of The Story
With the fun and games behind them (CA World ’15), CA Technologies has to get back to the work at hand, continuing its reinvention. The software giant is pinning its future on where the market is going...
View ArticleCompuware Drapes Mainframe In DevOps’ Clothing
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas Mainframe vendors,...
View Article…EMC Really is a Software Company
Storage hardware vendors like to refer to themselves as software companies. While it is true that most of them write storage software that runs on off-the-shelf hardware, most of them require that you...
View ArticleITOM Drives Pending HPE/Micro-Focus Spin-Merge
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise IT Operations Management Summit, this week’s three-day event in Dallas, is over, but how the ITOM business will move forward when HPE’s spin-merge with Micro-Focus is...
View ArticleCA: Toolmaker For The DT Generation
SAN JOSE: CA Technologies has weathered tremendous changes since planting its mainframe roots in 1976, but as it starts its fiscal 2018, following a year of relatively flat sales and profits, the $4...
View ArticleCA Levels The Playing Field
SAN JOSE: CA Technologies has a storied past that began with the mainframe back in 1976, but it’s looking to reinvent itself as the architect of the ‘modern software factory’ which will make Digital...
View ArticleIBM Introduces Transparent Cloud Tiering for DS8880…
Archiving data from mainframe storage systems has been traditionally limited to an on premises physical or virtual tape tier. However, IBM has overcome that limitation with the introduction of...
View ArticleHDS Metamorphisis: From Storage 5th to IoT 1st
LAS VEGAS: HDS is dead. Long live Hitachi Vantara. By combining its former storage/IT business unit (origins date back to 1979, but debuted as HDS in 1989) together with Pentaho (BI software acquired...
View ArticleBetter Together: Vantara Plots IoT Success
Last week Hitachi ($81 billion annual revenues and more than 800 subsidiaries, with products including consumer appliances, electric power generation as well as IT) announced it was combining its...
View ArticleWill Cloud DevOps Re-Energize ‘Big Iron’?
Not only has ‘Big Iron’ shrugged off its naysayers — suffering neither Monty Python’s ‘flesh wounds’ nor Mark Twain’s ‘reports of my death’ — the mainframe appears to be poised for a renaissance, one...
View ArticleCA: Connecting the DoTs
To help address the emerging multi-trillion-dollar app-driven digital transformation business phenomenon, CA Technologies made more than 20 new and enhanced product announcements at CA World ‘17. That...
View ArticleCA Wants To Be The One (DevSecOps) Throat To Choke
Whether it’s via a perfect storm, product onslaught or the ‘disrupt or be disrupted’ times, CA Technologies appears to be making steady, if slow, progress from its mainframe roots to the app-fueled...
View ArticleIBM’s… Back to Kicking Butt
I’m ex-IBM myself and it gives me great pleasure to see my old firm do well. Well this quarter they didn’t disappoint with significant improvement in their new business initiatives, which are just...
View ArticleCA’s BTCS2.1: Where Do We GrOw From Here?
At last week’s second annual Built to Change Summit CA Technologies updated analysts and journalists on where it and the markets it’s pursuing — primarily DevSecOps, with a heaping helping of mainframe...
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