Company Analysis in Data Centre & IT Infrastructure
A sliver of hope
14 September 2009The IT sector saw little respite from its dire recent financial performance in August 2009. But one company’s results suggest the industry may be insulated from such disasters in future by the move to cloud computing
Second round knock-outs
17 August 2009Three months ago, many IT companies reported their first financial quarters since the recession began in earnest. But any hope that the drubbing they received back then was a one-off was misplaced, it became clear in July
Progress Software moves towards united front
15 July 2009IT infrastructure vendor Progress Software has taken a maverick approach to company integration
Credit crunch ignites fire-sale acquisitions in the IT sector
14 April 2009The once-mighty continued to fall in March 2009, making for some fire-sale M&A deals in the technology sector
Cisco and the X86 mainframe
09 April 2009Networking provider moves into the server market with Unified Computing System
VMware and the virtual data centre operating system
09 April 2009Virtualisation pioneer has ambitions as an enterprise platform provider
VMware injects substance into the cloud
16 March 2009Virtualisation leader reveals further details of its cloud operating system at its European expo. But is the company itself up to the job?
HP reveals its vulnerability with 13% profit drop
16 March 2009Plus, Salesforce.com breaks the billion-dollar barrier
Data Centre Innovation of the Year
13 March 2009Migration Solutions was the winner of the Information Age Award for Data Centre Innovation of the Year, and Telecity was the runner up
Eco-responsibility Innovation of the Year
13 March 2009Hitachi Data Systems won the Information Age Award for Eco-responsibility Innovation of the Year, with Bell Microsystems as runner-up
Clouds merging
13 February 2009Sun Microsystems and EMC both boosted their cloud computing strategies with acquisitions in January 2009
IT sector bites down on painful medicine
13 February 2009Janaury 2009 saw a tidal wave of redundancies from IT vendors as the fallout from the fourth quarter of 2008 hit their balance sheets
IBM buys into cross-platform virtualisation
10 December 2008Plus, consolidation in the insurance applications market
IT vendors suffering private problems, not crunch pangs yet
10 December 2008Nortel, Verisign and Dell in pickles all of their own. Plus: Salesforce.com fares well
| 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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