- VMware Brings the Cloud to Developers With Code2Cloud Application Lifecycle Tools – MarketWatch
"The software development tool chain has always been tedious to setup and integrate," said Red Monk analyst Michael Cote. "While cloud-based development promises to make application delivery, deployment, and use easier, I haven't seen excellent unified application management approaches that take full advantage of cloud. VMware's SpringSource Code2Cloud is an ambitious step towards moving much of the development management stack into the cloud and hopefully vacuuming up those tedious application management tasks. It'll be fun to watch this idea evolve as more and more people and applications start taking advantage of cloud computing." - SAP Upping Private Cloud Ante
- IBM Java defection leaves Apache sourcers shellshocked
- IBM's new business continues to drop
Demand for mainframes grew IBM hardware revenue: "The company's hardware division saw the strongest revenue growth. This unit's 10% sales increase to $4.3 billion was driven by a surge in demand z-series and MIPS mainframe technologies." - Revenue Still the 4G Question
They say users with faster mobile Internet use more apps and data, but don't want to pay for them or – at least – use carrier only apps, favoring existing Internet brands like Google and Skype. Movie at 11. - VMware revenues up 46% • The Register
- Stat Shot: The Big 11 Tech Acquirers
A report makes the case that cash-full tech companies want to make technology buys, not just market ones. - Rackspace: Two Million Paid Business Email Users
"San Antonio-based IT hosting firm Rackspace reports today that it has hit two million paid business email users, for its hosted email offerings." - IT supervendors: They can buy innovation, but can't maintain it
"Sondergaard’s argument is a bit different. He projects middling IT budget growth over the next 5 years. Think 3 percent to 5 percent growth a year, a tally that won’t keep up with global inflation. This weak budget growth will force companies to act differently. Toss in consumerization, changing work habits and the blurring of personal and professional activities and IT managers are just going to use whatever gets the job done. Those tools could be smartphones, tablets or something else. Chances are it won’t be a so-called integrated stack." - CA Technologies Next-Generation Automation Suite Helps Accelerate the Journey from Virtualization to Cloud… — ISLANDIA, N.Y., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ —
A slew of automation news and releases from CA Technologies. - Gartner: Vendor merger mania threatens tech innovation
Gartner all but says big companies kill innovative ones by buying them: "Acquiring innovation is one thing, maintaining it is completely different." Indeed, it's a tough row to hoe. - Apple Q4: $20B Revenue, $4B Profits, 3.89M Macs, 14.1M iPhones, 4.19M iPads — All New Records
Pretty good summary, actually. - Dell's DCS is a big shiny server star • The Register
A profile of Dell's Data Center Services (DCS) division, the part of the company that sells boxes to cloud-scale outfits like Facebook and Salesforce. - Strange Loop reviews | Strange Loop Conference
Reviews of the Strange Loop conference. It seemed like it was nice. - Ray Ozzie stepping down from Microsoft
Well, that's kind of a blow, PR-wise at least. - CA Technologies Next Generation Automation Suite Helps Accelerate the Journey from Virtualization – CA Technologies
- Ask HN: What is the most profitable way to self-publish e-books?
- The Business Movie
- Skype’s VP Of Enterprise On Future Strategy, Products And Competitors
- How to Secure Your Enterprise in the Post-PC Era
- George Parker: Perception Is Reality? – PSFK
"Which brings me to the big question? With the growth of new media and social networking, we are constantly being told the consumer is now in charge, that they don’t want products pushed at them through traditional advertising, they want to be communicated with in the form of conversations, word of mouth, Twitter feeds, FaceBook friends etc, etc, etc. But, even though the nature of the communication media has changed, are they still being persuaded to buy tons of shit they don’t really need? Have the buyers of cashmere and fifteen hundred dollar Gucci bags become more sophisticated and selective in their buying habits, or merely more ubiquitous in the way they receive the messaging?"
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