Facebook’s double buy of mobile-related companies raises a couple of interesting questions, obviously related to motive and future direction for the social-net giant. While the deal for mobile photo-app player Instagram caught everyone’s attention on price (a billion), it takes at two points to define a line, and to guess where the line might lead. …
Google is making news, again, for its left-of-center management practices. The company turned in an exceptionally good quarter that beat estimates handily, and at the same time it announced it would be doing a 2:1 stock split but one that created only non-voting shares. The goal, obviously and as the company admitted, was to prevent…
Whatever you want to call it, we’re having a revolution in IT. HP’s announcement of a cloud-friendly architecture to build data centers, one that includes prefabricated provisioning tools, was mirrored in many ways by the IBM PureSystems launch yesterday. I think IBM is right in that the new wave is the most important thing in…
Euphonic, huh? Well, earnings season is about to take off, which means we’ll likely have more financial results to review than tech bombshells. Some companies are working to get their stuff out before they go quiet in their pre-earnings period, though, and one of them is HP. After seeming to ignore the cloud, they now…
I’m seeing some progress (perhaps, at least) in the evolution of a logical structure for operator-hosted OTT services. One startup, UXP Systems, has created a kind of shim layer that orchestrates and manages the OTT form of a number of operator services, including voice, messaging, and video. The idea is to provide componentized, orchestrable, services…
The fate of the cloud is also the fate of the network vendors, as I’ve noted before. There is nothing that will stop the use of OpenFlow and SDNs for data center networking, and while arguments that “merchant silicon” can produce the optimum OpenFlow switch are false, it’s true that commodity switches could produce results…
Apple stock may be shooting upward, but Google has its own plans for new products and concepts, and two in particular have what I think is real potential. I’m not saying that they’ll suddenly acquire the momentum of Apple, but I am saying that I think Apple and Google are destined to grow into more…
Let’s face reality here. For a decade now, we’ve had a vision of the future as one of a romp through a vast collection of entertainment, funded by advertising that we all try to never notice. The fact is that all the ad metrics in the world don’t prove that anyone actually sees an ad,…
In yet another move that could be called “cloudy” in more ways than one, Dell is buying Wyse, a former terminal vendor who now specializes in “thin clients”, which I guess is what they call terminals these days. It seems to me that there’s a lot of questions about this kind of move, and that…
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