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Supplier Report: 1/30/2016

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Another week, another IBM acquisition. IBM announced that they are purchasing marketing firm Resource/Ammirati to “address surging client demand for the next great customer experience”… how noble of them.  While IBM is picking up new companies, rumor has it that they are planning to let go of employees in the GTS space.  The job eliminations could be up to 30,000 positions (but  there is no way that they will cut that many heads in one year… right?).

EMC/VMWare announced up to 800 staff cuts in the VMWare space while they are attempting to assure banks and investors that the Dell acquisition is on target.

Oracle is doing what Oracle does best… trolling other companies.  Oracle released Google’s sensitive financial data to the news which Google is (rightly) quite upset about.  Oracle’s attorney said Google should blame themselves.  Oh yeah they also finally killed off the Java plug in.

Finally… Xerox is pulling a HP and announced a split/spinoff due to pressure from Carl Icahn.

IBM

  • IBM Dishes on Acquisition Plans for Digital Marketing Company

    The objective of the move, we’re told, is to combine the companies’ strategic, creative and technology talents to address rising demand from businesses seeking to “reinvent themselves for the digital economy and provide differentiated experiences to their customers.”

    http://mobilemarketingwatch.com/ibm-dishes-on-acquisition-plans-for-digital-marketing-company-64986/
    More Information on the acquisition:
    IBM Plans to Acquire Resource/Ammirati to Address Surging Client Demand for the Next Great Customer Experience

    As one of the top, digitally-led creative agencies in the US, Columbus, Ohio-based Resource/Ammirati will help IBM build on the success in North America and join over 10,000 IBM iX employees to support demand for its services in this fast-growing market. Resource/Ammirati’s 300+ associates across its offices in Columbus, Chicago and New York will continue to serve a diverse roster of clients spanning consumer goods, retail and financial services companies such as Birchbox, DSW, Nationwide, Nestlé, Newell Rubbermaid, North American Breweries, Shaw Industries, Sherwin Williams, Toys “R”Us and White Castle, among others.

    http://www.finchannel.com/index.php/technology/item/53862-ibm-plans-to-acquire-resource-ammirati-to-address-surging-client-demand-for-the-next-great-customer-experience
    Comments:
    I find this buy very interesting… considering some of the marketing moves Oracle made last week and the fact that Teradata is looking to sell of their marketing platform, this is an area to watch in the next few months.

  • IBM CEO Rometty Getting $4.5 Million Bonus for 2015

    Ms. Rometty’s total earnings for the year won’t be clear until IBM discloses the value of certain equity grants, but her bonus was $900,000 more than the $3.6 million she earned last year. The IBM CEO’s base pay for 2016 remains unchanged at $1.6 million, with $13.3 million in long-term incentive stock awards, the company said Thursday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/01/29/ibm-ceo-rometty-getting-4-5m-bonus-for-2015.html

  • Axe to fall on staff at IBM’s Global Technology Services ‘this Friday’

    Global Technology Services, which builds networking infrastructure and provides high-availability systems among other things, is part of the IT titan’s Global Services division, which employs about 190,000 people worldwide.

    Lee Conrad, an ex-IBMer and national coordinator of the Alliance@IBM union, said on Monday that staff had told him that up to 20 per cent of the GTS workforce is at risk. “I have received information that a resource action will happen this Friday,” he told journalists via email.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/26/ibm_gts_layoffs/
    Additional News:

    As layoff rumors surface, IBM cuts severance pay allowance
    IBM, which has reported a loss in revenue for 15 consecutive quarters, is reportedly gearing up for layoffs this week. The move comes less that a week after Big Blue cut severance pay allowances from as much as six months pay to one month.

    http://wraltechwire.com/as-layoff-rumors-surface-ibm-cuts-severance-pay-allowance/15278005/

  • IBM Refreshes LinuxONE, Expands Platform’s Ecosystem

    IBM LinuxONE recently ported the Go programming language, which was developed by Google. Go is designed for building simple, reliable and efficient software, making it easier for developers to combine the software tools they know and love with the speed, security and scale offered by LinuxONE. IBM will begin contributing code to the Go community in the summer.

    http://www.eweek.com/cloud/ibm-refreshes-linuxone-expands-platforms-ecosystem.html

  • IBM Closes Weather Co. Purchase, Names David Kenny New Head Of Watson Platform

    As part of the deal, IBM is making some changes: First, the Weather Company’s cloud platform will now run on IBM’s Cloud data centers (recall that it once was a big client of AWS). That platform will now power all of IBM’s wider push into data services and Watson’s Internet of Things business. This will bring a massively bigger amount of data into the mix, covering what IBM describes as billions of IoT sensors.

    http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/ibm-watson-weather-company-sale/?ncid=rss

Oracle

  • Oracle Corporation (ORCL) to Kill of Java Browser Plugin – Why this is good for everyone

    “Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9,” the Java Platform Group said on their blog. “This technology will be removed from the Oracle JDK and JRE in a future Java SE release.” Oracle does not plan to provide additional browser-specific plugins as such plugins would require application developers to write browser-specific applets for each browser they wish to support. Moreover, without a cross-browser API, Oracle would only be able to offer a subset of the required functionality, different from one browser to the next, impacting both application developers and users.”

    http://ir.net/news/stock-news/123425/oracle-corporation-orcl-to-kill-of-java-browser-plugin-why-this-is-good-for-everyone/

  • Google Should Blame Itself for Confidential Info Leak: Atty for Oracle Corporation

    Oracle’s attorney, Annette Hurst fired back at Google after the search engine giant criticized her for disclosing extremely sensitive information during a court hearing on January 14.

    According to Google, Atty. Hurst improperly revealed “extremely sensitive information” from documents that were marked “Attorney’s Eyes Only.” The search engine giant said the “public disclosure could have significant negative effects” on its business.

    http://www.opptrends.com/2016/01/google-should-blame-itself-for-confidential-info-leak-atty-for-oracle/

EMC | Dell

  • VMware Cuts 800 Jobs As Merger Doubts Linger

    The layoffs were announced Tuesday as VMware released its fourth-quarter earnings. The company expects the cuts to cost between $55 million and $65 million.

    While VMware operates as a separate, independent company from EMC, its stock has dropped more than 40% since the Dell takeover was announced late last year. EMC has itself launched layoffs that will cost about $250 million.

    http://ww2.cfo.com/the-cloud/2016/01/vmware-cuts-800-jobs-merger-doubts-linger/

  • EMC has a shoddy year

    “I was disappointed that we fell a bit short on revenue, which was $7.01 billion essentially flat year-on-year,” Tucci said. “However, I would like to point out that it follows 24 consecutive quarters of reported year-on-year top line growth. An accomplishment that very few our technology peers matched.”

    http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/4500272044/EMC-has-a-shoddy-year

  • EMC slams concerns Dell cannot raise takeover cash

    Tucci: “We have a binding solid merger agreement in place. We are highly confident of the contractual terms we have in place [and] that we will meet those contractual terms. There are significant penalties in place both ways if this doesn’t happen. The banks are fully committed and, again, what does that mean? It means that the banks have told us they can raise the money.”

    http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2443771/emc-slams-concerns-dell-cannot-raise-takeover-cash

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Supplier Report: 12/26/2015

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We are half-way through the holidays, and our favorite suppliers (thankfully) didn’t make too much noise going into the break.

The tone of the articles are shifting away from “what we did” and are focused on “what we are going to do”.

IBM is going leverage BlockChain, HPE is going make some awesome computer called “The Machine”, Dell is going to figure out a way to pay for EMC (maybe)… and Amazon is going to take over your house?

IBM

  • IBM’s Opportunity In The Telecom Industry And Rivalry With Intel

    IBM is targeting the CSPs (communication service providers), such as telecom operators, cable service providers, satellite broadcasting operators, content and applications service providers and cloud service providers, to help them generate revenue from the big data value chain. Internal telecom data combined with third-party data has tremendous potential that CSPs can exploit to drive their revenues with the help of advanced analytics. Third-party data include data from various social media like Facebook and Twitter.

    As I said above, the challenges telcos are facing today are resulting in softer revenue growth and decreasing profit margin. The only way to boost revenue growth and profit margin is adopting business-focused big data initiatives. Well, what is a business-focused big data initiative? The answer is building customer focus and improving operational efficiencies for expanding revenue and profitability via prudent use of big data analytics and other solutions.

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/3768996-ibms-opportunity-in-the-telecom-industry-and-rivalry-with-intel

  • Why Box Needs Friends Like IBM And Salesforce

    Things must be going pretty well: Last Friday, the two announced a “long-term commitment” that could last at least a decade. Box hasn’t actually generated much in the way of new revenue from its IBM  relationship yet, but it has at least 100 deals in the pipeline and could close some of them during its current quarter (which ends January 2016).

    http://fortune.com/2015/12/21/box-ibm-salesforce/

  • Blockchain – Goldman and IBM care, should you?

    Why is this even a topic for a DCD conference that focuses solely on infrastructure? Because “it points to two important factors: first, it demonstrates how quickly technology innovation can go from largely unheard of to attracting business start-ups and investors,” says Bruce Taylor, DCD executive vice president. “That has an impact on full-stack infrastructure planning – even if small right now. Secondly, it suggests a new cloud model that wasn’t even in the lexicon two years ago, but may be a massive boost in decentralized computing productivity.”

    http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/events/blockchain-goldman-and-ibm-care-should-you/95402.article

  • TCS, Cognizant at top of outsourcing industry; snatch market share from IBM, Accenture

    More significantly, the performances Cognizant, which is US based but has most of its 219,000 employees in India, and TCS also comfortably eclipsed that of global technology behemoths such as IBM and Accenture during the same period, according to data compiled from company reports and regulatory filings. “India’s Top 5 providers have been gaining market share over the last several years. Within the set, there are growth variations with some growing faster. That said, the battle is now shifting to who can adapt faster to ‘as a service economy’. This is such a potent shift that can tilt the scales and create a new set of winners in services industry,” said Dinesh Goel, partner and India head at outsourcing advisory and research firm ISG.

    http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/tcs-cognizant-at-top-of-outsourcing-industry-snatch-market-share-from-ibm-accenture/50319165

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HP Inc

  • Can HPE’s “The Machine” Deliver?

    When HP announced The Machine in Las Vegas in 2014, it presented the project as a near-complete overhaul of traditional computer architecture. Gone were the CPU-centric architecture, the slow copper communications, and the messy hierarchy of traditional memory. In their place, specialized computing cores, speedy light-carrying photonic connections, and a massive store of dense, energy-efficient memristor memory. The resulting computer, its designers say, will be efficient enough to manipulate petabyte-scale data sets in an unprecedented fashion, expanding what companies and scientists can accomplish in areas such as graph theory, predictive analytics, and deep learning in a way that could improve our daily lives.

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/can-hpes-the-machine-deliver

EMC | Dell

  • Dell filing shows why it really needs the EMC merger — it lost money last year and revenue is shrinking

    Annual revenues went from $56.9 billion in its fiscal year ended February 1, 2013, to $58.1 billion in its fiscal year ended January 30, 2015. But they haven’t bounced back to the 2012 peak of $62.1 billion in the fiscal year ended February 3, 2012.

    For the six months ended July 31, 2015, revenues were down about 6% compared to the year-ago quarter, from $29.5 billion to $27.5 billion.

    http://www.businessinsider.com.au/dell-reveals-losses-revenue-shrinking-2015-12

  • Dell to Spin Off Security Division (more on SecureWorks)

    “While SecureWorks has shown both expansion in its top line, and gross margin, it also posted increasing losses,” TechCrunch noted. “Investors have shown smaller appetite for company’s going public that fail to show falling losses and increasing revenues.”

    People familiar with the matter have said the business could be valued at $2 billion because of the healthy growth rate, the WSJ said.

    http://ww2.cfo.com/credit-capital/2015/12/dell-spin-off-security-division/

Oracle

  • Oracle to build new cloud campus in Austin, Texas

    Oracle plans to build a 295-unit apartment complex next to the new campus to give employees affordable living options. The company has also acquired an Austin-based startup called StackEngine Inc. for developing its Oracle Public Cloud domain.

    Jobs at the new campus will be primarily sales-oriented, including direct selling, lead qualification, prospecting and technical support. The company plans to hire a lot of recent university graduates and people early in their career.

    http://presstelegraph.com/2015/12/24/oracle-to-build-new-cloud-campus-in-austin-texas.html

  • Oracle Settles ‘Deceptive Java Updates’ issue with FTC

    FTC said that Oracle failed to disclose the security issue to consumers. Even if the issue was disclosed to customers, it was inadequate, the FTC added. Oracle acquired Java in 2010. The older versions of Java have been targeted by hackers as it has many security loopholes. Oracle has provided updates and plugged the security loopholes in Java. However, the older version of Java, before SE version 6, update 10, were still causing security issues. Oracle will be required to inform customers about the security risks involved with running older versions of Java SE.

    http://northerncalifornian.com/content/55471-oracle-settles-%E2%80%98deceptive-java-updates%E2%80%99-issue-ftc

Other

  • Here’s how Amazon plans to run your home — before IBM, Microsoft get there

    Amazon’s platform will compete directly with Microsoft’s, adding a dimension to the two companies’ cloud rivalry. Microsoft has had more time to work on its Internet of Things platform, but Amazon Web Services has far more cloud customers.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2015/12/22/heres-how-amazon-plans-to-run-your-home-before-ibm.html

  • NetApp buys SolidFire for $870 million in cash

    Hardware company NetApp will buy SolidFire, a startup known for selling fast all-flash storage hardware, for $870 million in cash. The deal is considered to be an important one in the storage market especially when EMC has taken up flash by acquiring XtremIO and DSSD.

    Not only EMC, Cisco has also purchased all-flash storage maker Whiptail in 2013. Though NetApp announced about its first all-flash storage hardware product two years back only, the company is not especially known for flash storage.

    http://northerncalifornian.com/content/55462-netapp-buys-solidfire-870-million-cash

  • Red Hat CEO: ‘State of the Red Hat Union is secure’

    As we think about 2016 and beyond, it’s critical to recognize that we are building tomorrow’s IT legacy today. The next generation of technologists will inherit the decisions we make now just like we are dealing now with the legacy decisions made by the generation before us. Taking short-cuts and making decisions that get you up and running today – especially if it promises to save you some money – may be tempting. But, it needs to be a balance. You don’t want to be locked into technology you can’t escape – many enterprises are now confronting this pain from decisions made many years ago.

    http://wraltechwire.com/red-hat-ceo-state-of-the-red-hat-union-is-secure-/15191748/

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Supplier News: 12/19/2015

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Tis the season to reflect and embrace friends and close relations.  IBM is no different, celebrating a long-time relationship (AT&T) and a relatively new one (Apple).

While IBM shows the strengths of their partnerships, EMC and Dell are struggling in their new family unit. Funding continues to be an issue as Dell looks to sell Perot systems and IPO SecureWorks now that VMWare is definitely out of the VirtuStream deal.

It is a cold time of year, and Oracle is feeling the chill.  Oracle’s cloud business is growing, but their core business is flat and declining (slightly).  Last year Oracle rallied during the holidays, but analysts are not expecting another Christmas miracle.

IBM

EMC/Dell

  • Michael Dell will IPO SecureWorks trying to raise cash for his $67 billion EMC deal

    In 2011, Dell bought a company called SecureWorks for $612 million and now it’s officially spinning it off in an IPO.

    Dell hasn’t revealed in the SEC paperwork how much it hopes to earn from the IPO. Sources told the Wall Street Journal in October that Dell was hoping to raise $1 billion and would start its roadshow in December.

    Dell CEO Michael Dell (and his family trust) essentially own SecureWorks himself, gaining it when he took Dell private in 2013. He controls 71%, the paperwork says. It didn’t reveal whether he would be selling any of his stake as part of this IPO. Sources told the WSJ that he wasn’t planning on it.

    http://www.businessinsider.in/Its-official-Michael-Dell-will-IPO-SecureWorks-trying-to-raise-cash-for-his-67-billion-EMC-deal/articleshow/50226658.cms

  • Dell is looking to IPO SecureWorks because…
    VMware (VMW) Cancels Virtustream Joint Venture with EMC

    Along with their earnings release this October, VMware and EMC had announced plans to spin out Virtustream following the acquisition. The new company was expected to be owned jointly by EMC and VMWare with each having a 50% stake.

    However, this news added to investors’ concerns as Virtustream was still not profitable. A 50% stake would have required VMware to invest a huge amount for the development of hybrid-cloud solutions of Virtustream, which would weigh on VMware’s financials.

    All these concerns had together resulted in dwindling investor confidence in VMware, as can be seen from the fall in share prices. In the last three-month period, the company lost nearly 30% of its market cap in contrast to the S&P 500 index’s gain of over 2%.

    http://www.barchart.com/headlines/story/12814666/vmware-vmw-cancels-virtustream-joint-venture-with-emc

  • Will Dell look to raise cash for EMC by selling Perot Systems?

    Dell is reportedly looking to sell its professional services arm Perot Systems to help fund its takeover of EMC. Since the deal between Dell and EMC was announced, VMWare’s shares have dropped 27%. It provides IT services to government agencies and health care providers, including handling media claims, and was founded by billionaire businessman Ross Perot. The company is in the process to search for potential buyers, some of which include Indian Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), French IT outsourcing firm Atos, Genpact-a former General Electric company, and Canadian IT company CGI. However, the negotiations came to a close when both parties could not settle on a price.

    http://theindianrepublic.com/will-dell-look-to-raise-cash-for-emc-by-selling-perot-30588.html

HP Inc/Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise increases hybrid Cloud and IoT play

    “From a channel perspective, this will be geared towards large enterprises or mid-market customers that are typically sitting between what to run themselves and what to put on the Cloud. We have a lot of channel partners that operate within that space and they can offer it as a next generation solution for the datacentre or offer it as a managed service themselves.”

    The solution will be available from June next year and Hewlett Packard Enterprise has already started enabling channel partners in terms of technical and sales training to take it to market.

    http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/591011/exclusive-hewlett-packard-enterprise-increases-hybrid-cloud-iot-play/

  • HPE grows enterprise data center hardware business and extends lead over Dell and Cisco

    It appeared to be a good quarter for HPE, especially. According to Synergy’s report, HPE grew its lead over Dell and Cisco, the second and third place enterprise data center infrastructure vendors, respectively. It also grew its market share to 24 percent. Not bad for a company that was in the midst of splitting itself into two.

    The enterprise side accounts for more than half of the data center infrastructure market. In comparison, the service provider market is small. But in the service provider space, the leading hardware vendors are having a much tighter race, led by – in descending order – Cisco, HPE and Dell.

    http://www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com/story/hpe-grows-enterprise-data-center-hardware-business-and-extends-lead-over-de/2015-12-14

Oracle

  • Oracle: A Chimera Or The Real Deal

    Is Oracle likely at some point in the foreseeable future to return to some reasonable level of growth-organic or inorganic perhaps defined as high single digits?

    I really don’t think that that is possible. Oracle essentially sells two major product families – databases and enterprise applications. Neither of these have a particularly high growth rate; indeed the growth rate for database seats is probably zero these days. Oracle already has a commanding market share in the database market. It is approaching a monopoly in some categories. And while relational databases will be around for a long, long time, at the margin specialized data stores such as those built around Hadoop and other technologies are starting to limit the market potential for relational technology.

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/3763596-oracle-a-chimera-or-the-real-deal

  • Oracle Corporation: After Such An Outlook, Where Can It Go?

    While cloud revenues impressed the stockholders, guidance for the upcoming quarters was disappointing. Oracle expects 3Q EPS within $0.60–0.63 as compared to a consensus of $0.65. For 3Q, SaaS and PaaS revenue is expected to grow in the range of 49–53% YoY in constant currency terms. IaaS revenue growth is calculated to fall within 3–7%YoY.

    http://www.businessfinancenews.com/26847-oracle-corporation-after-such-an-outlook-where-can-it-go/

 

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Supplier Report: 12/5/2015

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This week seems to be all about the scrappy underdogs taking on the champs.  Rocana wants to take a piece of splunk, Google (okay not so scrappy) wants a chunk of Amazon’s cloud business, and Amazon (also not an underdog) wants to take a bite out of Watson.

Hewlett Packard Enterprises

  • The market responded well to the HPE/Microsoft partnership…

    Gartner predicts that IoT connected devices will represent 6.4M of the total devices connected to the internet in 2016. It is extremely similar to the same deal Microsoft cut with HPE’s arch competitor, Dell, back in October. HPE also serves as a conduit to Microsoft’s growing Azure cloud computing ecosystem. Analysts on the street covering shares of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), are projecting a one-year target price of $15.153, according to Zacks Research.

    http://waltonian.com/2015/12/hewlett-packard-enterprise-shares-rally-on-expanded/

  • BT partners with HPE on Cloud services

    British Telecom has partnered with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to allow the telco’s IP VPN customers to connect directly to HPE Helion Managed Cloud Services. BT’s service will use HPE’s Rapid Connect capability to bypass the public Internet when connecting to HPE Helion Managed Cloud Services.

    http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/589846/bt-partners-hpe-cloud-services/

  • HP Inc exits low cost Android tablets, to focus on high-end devices

    HP’s new strategy is akin to that of Apple and Microsoft, which both offer more expensive, premium tablets. Dell has also scaled back its cheap tablet product line-up instead focusing on profitability. Dell says it wants to sell only premium tablets and hybrids with advanced features like hi-res screens and even 3D cameras.

    http://www.streetwisejournal.com/hp-exits-low-cost-tablet-market/
    Note: Hmmm… that sounds oddly similar to what I said on a certain podcast last week…

  • The Sad Story of HP Printers

    At HP Printers, they were fully aware back in the late 1970s that the market was moving to go paperless, but spent the following decades in denial rather than in pivoting to take advantage of the opportunities that this move would create. Recent surveys indicate that a majority of firms will be paperless shortly, yet with four decades of warning, HP doesn’t appear ready.

    HP Inc.’s numbers are out and they are getting pounded by the decline in printing supplies. As a result of this long-anticipated move, they now serve as a lesson of what not to do. They also showcase why so many dominant companies, even with lots of notice, don’t survive an industry event like the paperless office

    http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/the-sad-story-of-hp-printers.html

Other

  • Microsoft Overtakes IBM as Most Buggy Software Vendor

    “The reason so many Microsoft products are in the Top 20 lists this time is that both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge come bundled with Adobe Flash, adding the 35 Flash vulnerabilities listed in August to Windows 8 and upwards,” he said.

    http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-overtakes-ibm-most-buggy/

  • Forrester: Google cloud business a concern for AWS, IBM

    Google does not break out its cloud revenues separately when reporting results, but at a recent event, the firm said it thinks its cloud revenue will surpass its sales from online advertising in five years’ time. Its aim is to be referred to as a cloud company by 2020.

    http://www.channelnomics.com/channelnomics-us/news/2437017/forrester-google-cloud-business-a-concern-for-aws-ibm

  • So Larry Ellison wrote a book about Oracle…

    I learned many important things from this book, but I found this quote to be most useful: “People — teachers, coaches, bosses — want you to conform to some standard of behavior they deem correct. They measure and reward you on how well you conform — arrive on time, dress appropriately, exhibit a properly deferential attitude — as opposed to how well you do your job. Programming liberated me from all that. I could work in the middle of the night. I could wear blue jeans and a T-shirt. I could ride my motorcycle to work. And I’d make more money if I could solve the problem faster and better than anyone else.”

    http://www.gurufocus.com/news/375356/the-oracle-of-software-

  • Startup Rocana wants to be everything Splunk is and more, bringing big data to DevOps

    Years back, Omer Trajman, Eric Sammer, and Don Brown met while working together at Cloudera. They were early executives and field employees charged with helping customers understand Hadoop and how to use it to solve business problems. They did this, possibly, hundreds of times and, while they were able to help many business better understand Hadoop, they always seemed to hit a snag when it came to getting it into production.

    The problem was that the operations team, the folks in the data center, didn’t know how to run it or weren’t able to. So, they started solving the operations problem as well. They screwed it up plenty of times, Trajman said, but they also got it right many times as well.

    http://www.techrepublic.com/article/startup-rocana-wants-to-be-everything-splunk-is-and-more-bringing-big-data-to-devops/

  • Teradata restructures leadership, cuts co-president

    Teradata (NYSE: TDC) said its board of directors moved Tuesday to dissolve its co-president management structure in light of the recent decision to exit the market applications business. The co-president position held by Hermann Wimmer has been terminated. The company has appointed Robert Fair as chief operating officer. Michael Koehler, CEO of the company, has additionally been named president.

    http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2015/12/teradata-restructures-leadership-cuts-co-president.html

  • Why Dell Might Sell Quest Software & SonicWall

    The rumors began flying Wednesday night that Dell is shopping its portfolio companies — Quest Software and SonicWall — to buyout firms KKR & Co LP, Thoma Bravo LLC and Vista Equity Partners Management LLC.

    http://www.cmswire.com/information-management/why-dell-might-sell-quest-software-sonicwall/

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