Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.
Quoting "people familiar with the matter" Journal reporters Matthew Karnitschnig, William M. Buckley and Justin Check write:
"It is unclear whether the negotiations will result in a transaction, but if the deal does go through, IBM is likely to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash to acquire Sun, the people said. That would translate into a premium of about 100% over Sun's closing price Tuesday of $4.97 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Any transaction would strengthen IBM's position against Hewlett-Packard Co., the largest company in the information technology industry. It could be the largest acquisition in IBM's history, surpassing the acquisition of Cognos Inc. last year."
The Journal reporters are also careful to add a disclaimer: "People familiar with the matter cautioned that while talks are under way, a transaction might not occur."
Dr Kristof Kloeckner, CTO of Enterprise Initiatives and VP of Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM Software Group, is presenting a keynote address on March 30 in which he will review the conditions under which cloud computing can deliver its promise of flexibility and cost savings in the delivery of IT services to the enterprise.
Dr Kloeckner will discuss the importance of dynamic infrastructures and service management for both public and private clouds, cloud service life cycles, and integration between public clouds and enterprise services. He will also talk about the standards required for interoperability between clouds and application scenarios that demonstrate the use of cloud computing in an enterprise context for a smarter planet.
Then the following day, April 1st, Sun's Sr. VP of Cloud Computing, David Douglas, will be keynoting on how enterprise IT operations can take advantage of the emerging world of multiple clouds to achieve the cost and flexibility advantages that cloud computing allows while maintaining control of their IT infrastructure.
They are joined in the event's keynote lineup of major industry thought leaders by Dr Werner Vogels, VP & CTO of Amazon.com.
Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East is a three-day event, which is being held at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. It features a top-notch lineup of speakers from the leading industry players of the main layers of the Cloud ecosystem - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications and services. The lineup includes, among others:
Dr Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com(Keynote)
Dr Kristof Kloeckner - VP of Cloud Computing Platforms, IBM(Keynote)
Davis Douglas, Sr. VP, Cloud Computing, Sun(Keynote)
Vik Chaudhary - VP of Corporate Development, Keynote Systems
Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Russ Daniels - CTO of Cloud Services Strategy, HP
Doug Tidwell - Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Ajay Anand - Director of Grid Computing, Yahoo!
Martin Ingram - VP of Strategy AppSense
Prasad Rampalli - VP, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel
Brian H. Prince - Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
Ronnie Thomson - Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Quark
Tim Crawford - Director of IT Operations, Stanford University
David Bernstein - VP & GM of Cloud Computing, Cisco
Glenn Brunette - Chief Security Architect, Sun
Sajai Krishnan - CEO, ParaScale
Ken Oestreich - Vice President, Egenera
Stephen Elliott - Vice President of Strategy, CA
Warren Wilbee - Director of ISV Evangelism, Microsoft
Lucian Lipinsky de Orlov - Director of Business Strategy, VIRTERA
Patrick Kerpan - CTO, CohesiveFT
Jim Rymarczyk - Chief Virtualization Technologist, IBM
Thorsten von Eicken - CTO and Co-Founder, RightScale
Owen Garrett - PM and Technologist, Zeus
Scott Sanchez - Chief Technology Architect, Unisys
Scott Wiener - Co-Founder & CTO, Cloud9 Analytics
Jeff Bauer - Creative Director, Forbes.com
Anthony Arrott - Special Assistant to the CTO, Trend Micro
Stuart Charlton - Chief Software Architect, Elastra
David Bressler - Principal Architect, Progress Software
Clod Barrera - Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Strategist, IBM
Tien Tzuo - CEO, Zuora
Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
John Trembley - Vice President, Xeround
Ranjith Ramakrishnan - Co-Founder & CTO, Cumulux
John Barr - COO & VP Engineering, Yieldex
William Fellows - Principal Analyst, The 451 Group
Kevin L. Jackson - Director of Business Development, Dataline
Bob Quinn - Founder, Chairman & CTO of 3Leaf Systems
Pau Garcia-Mila - Founder, eyeOS
David Linthicum - Editor-in-Chief, Virtualization Journal
Bryan Wade - Director of Channel Partnerships, ExactTarget
Bill McColl - Founder & CEO, Cloudscale
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Jon Pyke - Chief Strategy Officer, Cordys
Daniel Beveridge - Director of Virtualization Strategy, VIRTERA
JP Morgenthal - IT Architecture Consultant
John Gauntt - Founder, Media Dojo
Ed Sullivan - Founder & CEO, Aria Systems
Raghavan Srinivas - Technology Evangelist, Intuit
Brian Zanghi - President & CEO, Kadient
Simon Wardley - Software Services Manager, Canonical
Omer Trajman - Director of Field Engineering, Vertica Systems
Michael Hill - VP Enteprise Initiatives, Sales, Services & Business Development, IBM
Mike Jordan - Senior Software Architect, Ohio Dept. of Transportion
Prof Rich Wolski - University of California, Santa Barbara
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wernerkeil commented on 22 Mar 2009
Well, so did Oracle, and they're Silicon Valley based, too.
HP may seem better suited for some aspects of Sun, e.g. server, storage or MySQL. On the other hand, they probably still fight with their own acquisition of many times ill-fated and unlucky EDS (who have quite a couple of failed and often Billion $ losing projects under their belt ;-) so they may not be in a better position than IBM either regarding credit-rating or real cash deposit...
Also Java despite EC membership in the JCP may not be called HPs largest asset. They may write games for Desktop and Mobile with it, probably even some tools, but IBM on the other hand contributed almost an equal part of Sun's own JDK ever since than Sun did;-) Not to mention strategic IBM investments in Java via Eclipse, WebSphere and many other brands.
The server side might speak for HP, but the overall picture does for IBM.
HP might end up F**ing up Java more than Sun almost managed to do recently. While IBM may be able to save it given the experience of a tight-controlled, yet mostly independent and well-contributed Open Source community like Eclipse.
wernerkeil wrote: Well, so did Oracle, and they're Silicon Valley based, too.
HP may seem better suited for some aspects of Sun, e.g. server, storage or MySQL. On the other hand, they probably still fight with their own acquisition of many times ill-fated and unlucky EDS (who have quite a couple of failed and often Billion $ losing projects under their belt ;-) so they may not be in a better position than IBM either regarding credit-rating or real cash deposit...
Also Java despite EC membership in the JCP may not be called HPs largest asset. They may write games for Desktop and Mobile with it, probably even some tools, but IBM on the other hand contributed almost an equal part of Sun's own JDK ever since than Sun did;-) Not to mention strategic IBM investments in Java via Eclipse, WebSphere and many other brands.
The server side might speak for HP, but the overall picture does for IBM.
HP migh...
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In a deal that would significantly bolster IBM's position as the world's largest server maker, the Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that IBM is willing to pay $6.5BN in cash to acquire Sun Microsystems.
Apache Deltacloud, the Red Hat-contributed ReSTful API that abstracts differences between clouds so services on any cloud can be managed – provided of course there’s a driver – has graduated from the Apache Foundation’s incubator and is now a full-fledged Top-Level Project (TLP).
The...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
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AMD said late Tuesday that its chief sales officer Emilio Ghilardi had left the company and that CEO and president Rory Read is going to do his job while a replacement is sought.
AMD didn’t say why Ghilardi left but it’s assumed Read wants his own people. Read is relatively new to th...
During the lifespan of M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) there has always been something lacking – timers.
M3 execution procedure was outlined in this previous article.
The execution mentioned in the latter was a one-time-execution, whereas server monitoring requires periodic invocati...
Red Hat is putting its bought-in Gluster scale-out NAS storage technology,
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