GigaomAfter divesting server and chip fab units, is IBM still too big to succeed?
HP is breaking itself up into PC-and-printer and enterprise units; eBay is splitting from PayPal. Should IBM follow suit? Read more »
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HP is breaking itself up into PC-and-printer and enterprise units; eBay is splitting from PayPal. Should IBM follow suit? Read more »
EMC is taking on more of Cisco’s stake in VCE, maker of Vblock converged hardware. One reason? VCE partners Cisco and VMware have been at each other’s throats. Read more »
EMC and Cisco Systems have had an increasingly strained relationship, and now Bloomberg is reporting that Cisco will cut its stake in VCE, a five-year-old joint venture it launched with EMC and VMware… Read more »
Mirantis’ goal: Keep building its OpenStack customer base and boost consistency to prep for an IPO as early as 2016. Read more »
IBM, the venerable IT giant, is in a tough place and it’s unclear whether divesting businesses will help it compete with cloud and software oriented companies with lower cost structures, but… Read more »
In its present state, Cisco is too big and slow to compete in a downsizing world of IT vendors, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue. Read more »
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning’s Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP’s impending split into two public companies. Read more »
On Monday, Cisco added BT, Deutsche Telekom, Equinix to a roster of partners building Cisco-based clouds based on — yes — Cisco hardware. Read more »
The week in cloud: Oracle CEO change bombshell-that-may-not-be-a-bombshell overshadowed a week that also brought more OpenStack cloud M&A. Read more »
Eucalpytus: Bought. Metacloud: Bought. Enovance: Bought. What does the future hold for Cloudscaling, Piston Cloud, Mirantis et al? Read more »