So I am attending the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas this week. So far, the show has been great. One of the common themes during the show has been APM – Application Performance Management. The conference has an entire track focused on SOA and virtualization strategies for the data center. In addition to [...]
CA posted some impressive numbers last night after the market closed. They beat the consensus estimate for earnings per share, revenue, and cash flow. Quite impressive given the current economic challenges that are facing the world and impacting IT budgets. Digging a little deeper into their financials, one can see that CA has been reaping [...]
Information Week’s Plug into the Cloud blog featured an article by Editor John Foley. In the article, John mentions that Gartner predicts that the cloud services market will jump to $56 billion this year. In that same post, he mentions that Gartner predicts those same cloud services will reach $150 billion by 2013. John opens [...]
As a business consultant, I was constantly confronted with clients who had made a significant investment in a systems management framework application, such as HP OpenView or CA Unicenter, and were struggling with how to deploy the technology in order to receive the benefits of the substantial investment they had made. In most cases, they were [...]
