It looks like the financial crisis will help to clean not only financial markets, but also puts some pressure on top 2009 IT issues.

After breaking news in 2008 that Novell is extending their stand in IT Service Managment and Data center automation with acquiring Platespin and Managed Objects <HERE>,  these days SUN is shifting gears by buying QLayer <READ_HERE>. Sure, they lost ground in recent months and they had to move. Let’s wait and see how other big competitors like Cisco respond. Not to ask what Big Four will pull out of their hats. And there are other minor albeit open conquerors which are quite successful.

To me clouds in all their facets and IT Automation (in different disguise – <READ_HERE>) are tight close together, because they scale IT Operations to dimensions far from beeing able to be handled manually. Maybe it’s a good time for digging out old (and new) autonomic computing concepts and to put flesh on the bones.

2009 will be an interesting year, possibly bringing some groundbreaking advances to IT and business.

So let’s tell everyone to stop whining about recession but rather to look forward.

Roland

It looks like Cisco was attracted by EMC announcements in the recent weeks to go for the cloud. Though this possible $45Bn deals is still a rumor, most commenters on this issue <LIKE_HERE> agree, that this deal makes sense for Cisco. After showing its muscels and the will to move to the Web 2.0 field with the acquisition of collaboration software maker WebEx <HAVEALOOK> finally starts off for the clouds. Let’s wait and see a new titan entering the ring.

Roland