By R "Ray" Wang on August 17, 2017
About this Constellation ShortList The challenges and requirements around data and application integration are quickly changing. For starters, data increasingly lives and applications increasingly run outside of the four walls of the enterprise as companies embrace cloud-based compute and storage capacity, and as they replace on-premises software with software as a service (SaaS). The mobile, […]
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By Phil Fersht on October 19, 2015
Anyone who knows me well has seen how hard we’ve been pressing the importance of security and trust in a global services delivery environment, since we founded HfS. In short, we’re moving into a world where reactive fixes to security breaches is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Savvy enterprises simply have to deploy proactive, holistic […]
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By Denis Pombriant on October 14, 2015
Boston papers are atwitter this morning over Dell’s acquisition of local favorite EMC, the data storage company. With that the once proud Boston area, which birthed the mini-computer and software booms with companies like Digital, Data General, Wang, and quite a few others, is without a serious leading computer hardware maker today. Not to worry, […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 13, 2015
I swear there is a patron saint that CIOs pray to. A common prayer is to shield some of their favorite small tech vendors from being gobbled up by larger vendors. Another prayer is to shield them from the chaos when larger vendors merge. Usually results in years of inward focus and salesforces with bulging […]
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By Phil Fersht on August 6, 2015
The lifeblood of the IT outsourcing industry has always been application testing – it’s not sexy, but it’s a huge portion of ITO spending – and massively important to the revenues of the major ITOs. And while much of the traditional app testing market is commoditizing, with advances in remote management and automation, the proliferation […]
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By Jason M. Lemkin on October 23, 2014
I know you are probably like me. You go to a web service. What do you do? Free trial. Sign Up Now. The very, very last button I am going to touch is “Contact Me.” The last thing I want, as a web-centric small customer/user, is some sales rep selling me on some product I just […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 7, 2014
Google Enters China Via Lenovo While Counter Balancing Samsung On January 29th, 2014, Mountain View based Google announced it would sell it’s Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese based Lenovo for $2.91 in cash and stock. The deal cuts across many spectrum including mobile OS, computing wars, and search. Here’s 12 talking points: Source: Not sure, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 1, 2013
Oracle’s recent partnership announcements to supply Oracle technology to key cloud vendors such as Microsoft, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com create serious implications for the market.On June 28, 2013, Esteban Kolsky, Holger Mueller, and R “Ray” Wang discussed the implications of Oracle’s recent partnerships for: Salesforce customers Microsoft customers NetSuite customers Oracle customers Cloud competitors such as Amazon, Google, […]
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By Phil Fersht on June 3, 2013
It is my personal belief that the likes of HP and CSC will be sweating from the oncoming threat from the Austin-based firm’s $8.5 billion services arm in the not-too-distant future, not to mention some of the flagging Indian firms struggling to rediscover their mojoes.
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By Louis Columbus on May 14, 2013
Evangelizing development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time. The companies who excel at this exude technical prowess and as a result earn and keep trust. For Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 13, 2015
I swear there is a patron saint that CIOs pray to. A common prayer is to shield some of their favorite small tech vendors from being gobbled up by larger vendors. Another prayer is to shield them from the chaos when larger vendors merge. Usually results in years of inward focus and salesforces with bulging […]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Compaq, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Industry Commentary, M&A, merger