Posted on May 13, 2008 by Judith
I was minding my own business and twittering (I think that is how you say it) when I noticed a breaking news story from the Wall Street Journal: HP would be acquiring EDS. This is quite a significant transition for HP that will help transform the company into a new position in the market. Now, [...]
Filed under: BEA, EDS, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tibco, cloud computing | Tagged: EDS, HP, mainframe software | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 28, 2008 by Judith
I have been thinking a lot about the evolution of virtualization lately and so I was intrigued when a company I had never heard of called Desktone asked to come in for a briefing. When I heard that the company specialized on desktop virtualization I was intrigued. I was even more interested when [...]
Filed under: HP, IBM, Microsoft, SaaS, Virtualization, cloud computing, software industry | Tagged: Citrix, Desktone, desktop virtualization, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 2, 2008 by Judith
Every year for the past 20 years I have attended HP’s annual analyst meeting. The first one I attended was quite small with a couple dozen analysts with all the focus on hardware. Having spent so much time with HP over these years I am in a unique position to give a point [...]
Filed under: HP, Virtualization, cloud computing, information management, service management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: blades, cloud computing, data center automation, Hewlett Packard, HP, OspWare, SOA, Virtualization | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 18, 2008 by Judith
The great thing about acquisitions is that it provides a lot of fodder for bloggers and pundits. And there have certainly been a lot lately. For example, just yesterday BMC finally got a data center automation company. It almost had landed OpsWare when HP swooped down and landed the deal. Now [...]
Filed under: BMC, EMC, HP, IBM, Virtualization, service management, software industry, systems management | Tagged: BladeLogic, BMC, CA, EMC, HP, IBM, OpsWare, service management, Virtualization | No Comments »
Posted on December 21, 2007 by Judith
I love the end of the year. I get to sneak out of the office for a few days and stay off of airplanes. I also have a chance to look ahead to the new year. I like making predictions. Sometimes, I am years ahead of the market; other times I am able to hit [...]
Filed under: BEA, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SaaS, Salesforce.com, Virtualization, Web 2.0, cloud computing, information management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: , BEA, cloud computing, data management, EMC, Google, HP, IBM, information managment, management software, Microsoft, Oslo, SaaS, SAP, SOA, Virtualization, VMware, Zoho | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 15, 2007 by Judith
Today I am at EMC’s annual analyst meeting. Just like IBM, EMC’s theme is innovation. EMC is on an interesting journey from its roots in storage managment. EMC has been on a journey for a number of years with acquisitions in information and content management (Documentum and eRoom) and security (RSA, Verid), management [...]
Filed under: EMC, HP, IBM, Master Data Management, SaaS, cloud computing, information management, service oriented architecture, software industry, systems management | Tagged: , , , EMC, HP, information centric computing, Master Data Management, meta data, Mozy, RSA, security, SOA, storage, VMware | No Comments »
Posted on November 6, 2007 by Judith
Since the web has increasingly become the platform for interacting with customers, partners, and the like — the notion of managing the online experience has skyrocketed. The term “user experience” is confusing. I have traditionally thought about this in terms of how the user interacts with software. But I am finding that the [...]
Filed under: Compuware, F5 Networks, HP, NetIQ, monitoring, systems management | Tagged: , monitoring, real time transactions, user experience management, web architectures | No Comments »
Posted on June 14, 2007 by Judith
Now, I have been around the software world for longer than I would like to admit (I would be giving away my age if I told you). I have watched many trends come and go. The one consistent pattern that I see is the slow progression over the last 20 years towards distributed computing. [...]
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