Supplier Report: 4/11/2015

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This week feels like yesterday’s news.  Many of the major IBM stories are updates and rehash from the last few weeks – however they did release news on a breakthrough in tape storage. 64-year-old tape storage technology.

Bad week for HP.  PC sales are down and they are exiting the public cloud sector due to not wanting to go head to head with Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM.

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Supplier Report: 4/4/2015

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More bad news in the security sector this week, IBM is reporting there is a group of hackers (Dyre Wolf) going after financial wire transactions.

Speaking of transactions, IBM had a mobile heavy news week: More new apps with Apple (8 in total, 4 focusing on healthcare), they are spending $3B on internet of things infrastructure and management (seemingly around collecting data from wearables) and finally IBM announced a mobile app partnership in China.

This is a week of lawsuits: IBM is being sued by shareholders over their hardware write off and everybody involved with the HP Autonomy purchase is suing each other.

Also in HP news, the EMC merger (actually acquisition) rumor is floating around again.

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Supplier Report: 3/28/2015

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  • Oracle Primed To Leverage New Cloud Solutions, Says Cantor Fitzgerald

    Analysts Brian White and Isabel Zhu wrote, “Just over a year ago, Oracle held its first Cloud Forum for analysts, and the progress made across its cloud portfolio is nothing short of remarkable, in our view. Yesterday’s event only furthered our enthusiasm for Oracle’s cloud initiatives, which we find the most aggressive of any of the large, global IT vendors in our coverage universe, and we believe Oracle has the highest probability of success.”

    http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/15/03/5363034/oracle-primed-to-leverage-new-cloud-solutions-says-canto

  • Oracle Making Progress Taking On Workday In Cloud

    “We came away incrementally more positive after Oracle HCM World, given our conversations with customers and SIs,” he wrote. “Interest in (Oracle’s) Fusion HCM (cloud product) has picked up over the last six months, with a key Oracle SI partner indicating that Oracle added approximately 580 Fusion HCM customers following the Release 8 product, with maybe one-third, or 150-200, live over the past two quarters.”

    http://news.investors.com/technology/032715-745417-oracle-catching-up-in-cloud-hr-software.htm

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Supplier Report: 3/21/2015

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  • Amazon the best public cloud for software development

    The capabilities of AWS’ application services, coupled with its mature infrastructure services, vast ecosystem of partners, including many of the rapid dev and coder-focused platforms in this analysis, gave it high current offering and strategy scores across all but the rapid dev segment, where its degree of abstraction does not rise to the needs of this user,” the study said. “It also excels in breadth of security, reliability, and compliance characteristics.”

    http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/03/19/aws-named-top-public-cloud-for-software-development.aspx 

Supplier Report: 3/14/2015

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I have mentioned that Oracle is really tight with the news but this week was especially slow.  Their stock is trending neutral this week

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