Company Analysis in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure
Intel reveals the fruits of its McAfee acquisition
21 November 2011DeepSAFE will work outside the operating system at chip level watching the hardware for signs of malware, says Intel CTO Justin Rattner
Independence for Facebook’s open source hardware project
14 November 2011Social networking giant hands control of its open source hardware specifications to the newly launched Open Compute Foundation
Trouble at the top?
28 June 2011There is trouble brewing at the upper echelons of the IT industry, with many of its largest suppliers apparently bracing for tough times
Intel's '3D' chips keep Moore's law on track
05 May 2011Chipmaker's new Tri Gate transistor design keeps the IT sector's innovation cycle on course, but will it help crack the smartphone market?
John Thompson and virtualisation's "downstream effects"
21 March 2011With his new company Virtual Instruments, the former Symantec CEO hopes to capitalise on the impact of virtualisation on fibre channel storage area networks
Hewlett Packard’s cloud contortions
02 February 2011HP's new “infrastructure as a service” offering reflects the precarious position mainstream enterprise IT suppliers are in thanks to cloud computing
Data centre demand boosts HP and Cisco
20 December 2010The enterprise computing giants are both enjoying an uptick in data centre equipment sales but will it be enough to offset a precipitous drop in public sector spending?
Can Dell sell systems management software?
30 September 2010Thanks to its strategic repositioning, the hardware manufacturer now offers a systems management suite for the "virtual era". Now it just needs the culture to sell it
Strong results follow CEO woes at HP and Dell
13 September 2010The IT industry may have the worst of the recession behind it, but there are plenty of challenges ahead
Cultural concerns cloud acquisition potential
19 August 2010As a Japanese telco prepares to take over a South African IT services provider, analysts ask whether cultural differences might undermine the deal. Plus, can Adobe sell enterprise software?
Veeam bridges the gap between virtual rivals
14 July 2010Virtualisation management tools vendor hopes conflict between Microsoft and VMware will drive opportunity
Logicalis takes the hypervisor out of the cloud
14 July 2010Managed services provider Logicalis is debunking the theory that virtualisation, and subsequently cloud computing, is dependent on hypervisor software
HP shakes up mobile devices market through Palm buy
17 May 2010The big deal of April 2010 revealed that vendor partnerships that prove beneficial in one area technology platform do not necessarily hold true in others
Microsoft intensifies bid to own the virtual desktop
16 April 2010Software giant has laid down its plans for taking market share from competitor VMware in the desktop virtualisation arena
Move to cloud drives systems management acquisitions
12 March 2010The increasingly distributed nature of IT systems is presenting novel systems management challenges, and therefore fuelling acquisitions in the space
| Company | Period | Revenue ($m) | Rev Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hewlett-PackardCo | 1Q09 | $28,800.0 | 1% |
| Lenovo Group Ltd | 3Q09 | $3,592.0 | -20% |
| Quest Software Inc | 4Q09 | $201.6 | 8% |
| Unica Corp | 1Q09 | $26.1 | -8% |
| Xerox Corp | 4Q08 | $4,370.0 | -10% |
| Websense Inc | 4Q08 | $79.3 | 30% |
* Figures converted to US dollars
More Financial Results in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure| Acquirer | Target | Price ($m) |
|---|---|---|
| CA | Cassatt | n/a |
| EMC | Configuresoft | n/a |
| IBM | Exeros | n/a |
| Chatsworth Products | Epicenter | n/a |
| Rackable Systems | Silicon Graphics | $ 25m |
| Yahoo! Japan | Softbank IDC Solutions | $488.5 m |
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