Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

Following the deal between Verizon and Terremark earlier this year, Louisiana- based CenturyLink has agreed to a deal to acquire Savvis for $2.5B.  CenturyLink is a fixed-line phone and Internet access company, saying that it intends to let business customers store and access data and applications over the Internet. This is a continuation of the [...]

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Undoubtedly you’ve heard by now that Intel has a bid on the table to buy McAfee (for $7.7B). ¬†We’ve written before about the collaboration that’s been going on between the two companies for almost two years now, which we suspect is a leveraging of features at both ends of the stack to improve security of [...]

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Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations. In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete.¬† In his diatribe about why anyone with Equinix [...]

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Early news wires this morning report the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle at a $9.50 USD/share price.¬† While many of us were watching the dance between IBM and Sun over the past few months, this deal with Oracle leaves me scratching my head. Oracle’s Larry Ellison says, “The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT [...]

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We’ve discussed the topic of data center energy management in numerous posts, and we’ve talked about a Green Data Center Maturity Model.¬† If the topic of energy efficiency in the data center is of interest to you (and it should be) I’d like to recommend an excellent resource for you. Cisco is conducting a webinar [...]

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That was quick.¬† Just this morning HP admitted it was in “talks” to acquire EDS and a few hours later it’s official. HP will acquire EDS for $13.9B and brand it, “EDS- an HP Company” (creativity evidently didn’t get in the way of announcing the deal).¬† The new business unit will maintain its EDS centricity… [...]

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