What’s in a Name?
When CA announced last week that it would drastically simplify product branding, our first reaction was, “What, are you crazy?” It’s the latest in a spate of changes intended to demonstrate that this...
View ArticleHP Buys Opsware – Or is it the other way around?
HP’s announcement that it plans to buy Opsware represents something of a changing of the guard. HP’s $1.6 billion offer, roughly a 35% premium over last week’s close, is for a $100 million company...
View ArticleBreaching the Blood Brain Barrier
A month after Software AG unveiled its roadmap for converging webMethods products, it is releasing the first of the new or enhanced offerings. What piqued our interest was one aspect of the release,...
View ArticleHP Incubates Opsware
HP Software’s “Extreme Makeover” took another step at the end of last week when it closed the Opsware deal. Since the deal was announced almost exactly two months ago, we’ve been wondering whether it...
View ArticleA Governance Day in May
Just mention the word “governance,” and most people will equate it with auditors or attorneys who scold on all the wrong things you’re doing, or that a gap in the access control system could put your...
View ArticleThe Network is the Computer
It’s sometimes funny that history takes some strange turns. Back in the 1980s, Sun began building its empire in the workgroup by combining two standards: UNIX boxes with TCP/IP networks built in. Sun’s...
View ArticleWhat’s a Service? Who’s Responsible?
Abbott and Costello aside, one of the most charged, ambiguous, and overused terms in IT today is Service. At its most basic, a service is a function or operation that performs a task. For IT...
View ArticleHP analyst meeting 2010: First Impressions
Over the past few years, HP under Mark Hurd has steadily gotten its act together in refocusing on the company’s core strengths with an unforgiving eye on the bottom line. Sitting at HP’s annual analyst...
View ArticleLeo Apotheker to target HP’s forgotten business
Ever since its humble beginnings in the Palo Alto garage, HP has always been kind of a geeky company – in spite of Carly Fiorina’s superficial attempts to prod HP towards a vision thing during her...
View ArticleWhat will Splunk be when it grows up?
Much of the hype around Big Data is that, not only are people generating more data, but machines. Machine data has always been there – it was traditionally collected by dedicated systems such as...
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