and IT Process Automation
leader Opalis is indeed sold to Microsoft, as it is announced on Technet.com Website <‘Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software’>.
You can also find some interesting reading from Opalis’ CEO Todd DeLaughter at the Opalis Blog <‘Opalis joins the Microsoft System Center product lineup’>.
Opalis will be combined with Microsofts System Center product line. More informationen about the acquisition can be retrieved <here>.
]]>It is titled “Jumpstart Your Startup“.
Not only one gets cheap SUN hardware and access to hosted offering (DataPipe, Joyent, Layeredtech) but you also get free software and, here comes the twist, free VC connections. Isn’t this great? To me this isn’t realy that cool offering, I waited for. The emphasis is still on hardware. I wonder, what kind of metal you’ll get for 750$ bucks.
Please notice the cloudfree sky in the image, maybe that is a hint, where the journey goes to…
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covers the application part, cloud computing is more about the hardware topics covering cpu, storage and network. I see both as the two extremes with several other buzzy things in between like Platform-as-a-Service
, Mash-Ups and Next-Generation-Hosting. The baseline seems to be quite clear and the multitude of offerings is immense. So no one needs to question Gartner top ten predictions for IT organization <LINK> earlier this year. One question from my side is: Isn’t this a little bit too conservative? Is this only true for IT-organizations? Doesn’t other industries have margin pressure as well?
Especially predictions No 4
By 2012, at least one-third of business application software spending will be as service subscription instead of as product license.[...]
and No 5
By 2011, early technology adopters will forgo capital expenditures and instead purchase 40 per cent of their IT infrastructure as a service.[...]
are really compelling – just image the market size we are talking about….
Just to give you some brainfood: Salesforce meets GoogleApps
Roland
]]>HP-EDS: It’s About The Clouds, Baby!
Om Malik of Gigaom.com saying
[...]If you plot the EDS bid against these four recent developments, it is not that difficult to postulate that HP is building its own cloud focused on large global companies.[...]
Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)
ZDNets Dana Gardner saying
[...]HP with EDS has now clearly staked its future on the top prize in IT: next-generation IT operations efficiency, proper outsourcing methods, cloud computing services management, and high-level consulting as the onramp.[...]
[...]The cost efficiencies, utilization rates, flexibility, marketplace-driven productivity aspects of cloud computing are simply too wonderful to ignore. We simply should not have standalone email servers every 60 square yards inside of companies. It’s foolish.[...]
The Clouds Part on HP’s Computing Strategy
By Kevin Maney, Portfolio.com saying on wired.com
[...]But with HP today buying EDS for $12 billion, the smart thinking goes in a different direction. It’s looking like a red-hot area going forward for IBM, Amazon and Google will be so-called cloud computing — a.k.a. hardware as a service.[...]
Comment: nice Term ‘Hardware as a service’ or ‘HaaS’. i’ll come back to this later
HP Acquires EDS: More Cloud Computing Fallout?
Bob Warfield saying on Smoothspan Blog:
[...]Who knows, maybe HP can push this into a higher level strategy to get into the Cloud Computing game on their own. Certainly EDS has been very active in the application outsourcing business, but historically that’s been an ASP’s game and has not been very competitive against true SaaS offerings.[...]
Michael Bowen saying on Cubegeeks blog
[...]Only large cross functional services organizations teamed up with serious compute clouds and grids can do that. If that’s what HP has in mind with EDS, it’s going to be a brave new world.
I’m in the first phase of the ‘cloud enthusiasm’, so maybe it’s not a good mood to comment on this. Most of what the commenters said makes sense. But if all this was true, It feels like there is some ‘cloud hysteria’ arising, showing me the importance of cloud computing for the future of IT.
Roland
]]>i’m Roland and using this blog I will discuss the future of IT. As you all may know, the IT architectural model of clouds is one of the hottest topics during the last months. I’ve choosen this term not because I’m convinced the future of computing lies in the clouds – I like this ambiguous word and also I like looking to the sky and watch the clouds passing by. So let’s see what the future will bring and how I can transform this to writing.
Roland
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