Several companies are moving into the OpenStack cloud platform. In last week’s report, I covered Oracle’s openstack plans, this week both IBM and EMC released offerings as well.
HP’s recent performance earnings indicate that the company is in a slump. Down 21% from this time last year, the company seems to be in a daze before its historical split.
The rumors of Salesforce being purchased reached a peak with reports that Microsoft making a $55B offer for the company, which was rejected due to SalesForce wanting something closer to $70B.
IBM
- Unusual IBM Breach Could Make Coverage Ruling An Outlier
In a closely watched case, the Connecticut high court unanimously found Monday that Federal Insurance Co. and Scottsdale Insurance Co. don’t have to cover losses stemming from a data breach that occurred when a cart holding computer tapes with IBM employees’ sensitive information fell out of the back of a transportation contractor’s van near a highway exit ramp. About 130 of the tapes, which contained the Social Security numbers, birth dates and contact information of 500,000 past and present IBM workers, were taken from the roadside by an unknown person.
http://www.law360.com/articles/657168/unusual-ibm-breach-could-make-coverage-case-an-outlier
- IBM is bringing OpenStack to SoftLayer (Oracle last week and IBM this week)
Rather than using a single cloud provider, enterprises want to hedge their bets and spread workloads across multiple providers, or between a cloud provider and an in-house deployment. This year, 82 percent of organizations will adopt a multi-cloud strategy, up from 74 percent in 2014, according to a survey from cloud management services provider RightScale.
http://www.cio.com.au/article/575370/ibm-brings-openstack-its-softlayer-cloud/
- Around 90 Inverclyde jobs axed as IBM moves roles to Bulgaria
Most of the affected workers are employed by agency Manpower on behalf of IBM, which refused to comment on the employees facing the cuts.
- Dubuque officials say national IBM article was a ‘hatchet job’
Both articles cited the decline in workers from a peak of 1,300 to 625, as well as the state and local incentives offered prior to the company’s arrival. The articles also referenced a recent letter from U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that questioned company leaders’ request to hire workers on temporary foreign visas while laying off other employees.
http://www.thonline.com/news/dubuque/article_433b7c36-0015-11e5-8fae-0b042e6f27ae.html
- And so it begins: The first IBM/Apple iWatch app:
Hospital RN is an app that allows nurses to do their jobs more efficiently by providing them with on-the-go data and alerts.
EMC
- EMC also offers two OpenStack solutions
EMC’s rapid acceleration into the OpenStack community and open source communities in general is in part due to its OpenStack Cloud reference architectures, its new software defined storage controller CoprHD, EMC {Code}, its newly launched EMC CloudFoundry Dojo, and EMC’s recent OPNFV Sponsorship. EMC also recently releases two new driers for the Kilo release, Cinder and Manila.
http://www.storagereview.com/emc_announces_two_new_openstack_solutions
HP
- Hewlett-Packard profit, sales drop ahead of split
The company, based in Palo Alto, California, said Thursday that net income in the fiscal second quarter fell 21 per cent to $US1 billion, or 55 US cents a share, from the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue fell 7 per cent to $US25.5 billion.
- HP is selling off server tech to China too
Hewlett-Packard is giving up control of $4.5 billion business in hopes of staying in the Chinese market, to an extent. It is selling 51 percent of its networking and server operations to the country to an arm of Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1366011-hp-joins-ibm-in-selling-off-server-tech-to-china/
- HP storage revenues declining as the dithering continues (many companies like NetApp are taking a hit right now)
Overall storage revenues of $740m were 8.4 per cent down on the year-ago’s $808m. It wasn’t the worst part of HP’s Enterprise Group business, where revenues declined one per cent on the year to $6.6bn.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/22/hp_storage_hits_the_doldrums/
Other
- Lenovo misses forecast due to Motorola and IBM server deals:
The Beijing-based company closed it’s $2.1 billion acquisition of IBMs server unit in October, and also its purchase of Motorola for $2.9 billion, adding to the lower profits for the year that ended on March 31st. Analysts however had forecast a net profit slightly higher at $857 million. Lenovo’s revenue in the 2014/2015 financial year rose 20% to $46.3 billion as the company expanded its share of the shrinking PC market to a fifth. In Q4, revenue rose 21% to $11.3 billion.
http://www.streetwisejournal.com/lenovo-misses-forecasts/10746/
- Wipro, IBM, other India-based outsourcers captured 23% of top 100 deals in 2014
India-based outsourcers such as Wipro accounted for a large chunk of the global outsourcing contracts with 23 per cent share of the total contract value (TCV) of top 100 deals in 2014, research firm IDC said today.
- Report: Microsoft, Salesforce were far apart on price in deal talks
The two sides failed to reach a deal and talks broke off, the financial news network reported. Microsoft was said to be willing to offer about $55 billion, while Salesforce is said to have held out for as much as $70 billion.
- Salesforce, Microsoft gain share in CRM market, SAP, Oracle,
IBM dipSalesforce.com has increased its share in the global CRM software market to 18.4 percent in 2014 from 16.3 percent in 2013. Microsoft increased the CRM software share to 6.2 percent from 5.8 percent. The share of IBM dropped to 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent.