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Industry recovery gathers pace, although some left behind

 12 March 2010

The IT industry’s post-recession recovery was in full swing during February 2010, although it appeared to pass by some notable exceptions

Microsoft & Hewlett-Packard – a pragmatic partnership

 12 March 2010

The two IT giants' commitment to co-operation and mutual interoperability is a practical reaction to industry moves

VCE Alliance – an ambitious bid from the outsiders

 12 March 2010

The confederacy of VMware, Cisco and EMC has technological credentials but its stack vision is still a work in progress

Oracle – from software to systems, courtesy of Sun

 12 March 2010

Larry Ellison's company now has the technology required be a strategic supplier, but does it have the relationship skills?

IBM – the stack veteran

 12 March 2010

The computing giant is one of the pioneers of the pre-integrated systems model that is now returning to vogue

IT recovery kicks in at last, but not for all

 12 February 2010

There was evidence to suggest the IT recession is unofficially over in the industry’s financial reports for January, but also hints that difficult times are far from over

IBM & Intel top ethical business index

 03 February 2010

Green activities win Big Blue 'most ethical business' accolade

Compuware follows applications out of the infrastructure

 10 December 2009

Systems management vendor's new focus on application performance leads to acquisition of web app management vendor Gomez

Amazon Web Services put to the enterprise test

 10 December 2009

Cloud pioneer's services are being put through their paces in enterprise experiments, says CTO Werner Vogels

The IT industry's long road to recovery

 10 December 2009

If the IT industry is on the mend, a complete 360° healing process of all sectors is destined to be a long one, as November's financial performances revealed.

Data Centre Innovation Award

 10 December 2009

Digital Realty Trust won the Information Age Innovation Award in the Data Centre category for developing a set of standard for building sustainable data centres

Green IT Innovation Award

 10 December 2009

Keysouce took the Green IT Innovation prize in the Information Age Innovation Awards with its data centre airflow management system

NEON breathes fresh air into the mainframe

 19 November 2009

By allowing mainframe software to run on so-called 'specialty processors', mainframe systems management company threatens to shake up IBM's hold on the market

BMC Software attempts ‘Dynamic’ new vision

 30 October 2009

As it slips into negative revenue growth, business service management tools vendor launches a new vision: Dynamic BSM. But what does it mean?

Cloud convergence

 14 September 2009

Consolidation around cloud computing started to pick up in August 2009, while eBay finally admitted defeat over Skype

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Financial Results in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure
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

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M&A 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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