It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2009. It was an amazing year for ExtraHop. As for the broader world of IT, 2009 was packed with major news stories that will have significant impact, even years down the road. So here’s our recap list, for the biggest IT stories of 2009.
10. The Demise of Nortel [...]
VMware made a big splash yesterday with the launch of VSphere, the new “cloud operating system”. The idea is that any enterprise IT department can leverage VSphere to build a private cloud and scale up VMs on-demand, based on business needs. A number of performance improvements were made, supporting impressive numbers like supporting 1 giant [...]
Wow, just wow, lots of big news this morning and over the weekend. Here are your headlines:
Oracle Buys Sun and MySQL for 7.4B – Om has some insightful analysis here. Sun couldn’t survive as a stand-alone company any more, so the acquisition was a foregone conclusion, the only question was the who. Now we know, [...]
No More IBM-Sun? – A flurry of news outlets are reporting the M&A talk broke down over the weekend. According to a Wall Street Journal report, supposed the talks broke down because Sun had a split board, with current CEO Jonathan Schwartz favoring the merger (even at IBM’s newly reduced price) and former CEO Scott [...]
The battle for data center dominance is getting even more interesting today. WSJ reported on a rumored offer from IBM to buy Sun for $6.5B, looks like IBM is very serious about solidifying its position in this data center war. This sent many ripples through the tech-sphere with very mixed reactions. Downstream impact on end [...]