Supplier Report: 4/27/2014

** IBM **

IBM is reporting a 21% income drop in Q1 (this alludes to a comment made to me that they are not focusing on Quarter ends, but month end cycles…)
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/04/ibm-reports-21-income-drop-q1

IBM is expanding their US Federal Health Care business:
IBM is scoring business in the industrial space (day to day IT operational support – interesting to keep an eye on since we booted them out for doing this service for the network):
Using Watson for medical purposes:
IBM unleashing new power-servers with cloud focus on the market….
** HP **
HP is still struggling and the rise of Lenovo in the HW space is going to keep the pressure on:
** Sourcing ** (Read this!)
Advent of 3rd part software support driving legacy software feeds down
**Heartbleed **
Tech giants are backing a OpenSSL project to prevent another heartbleed – via the Linux foundation