Enterprise Software News Roundup Dec 17-23
Enterprise Software News and Insights:
Here are some of the biggest headlines of the week:
- Red Hat Acquires ManageIQ To Beef Up Hybrid Cloud Capabilities: Red Hat acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. Data center automation is essentially retrofitting a data center so it can have a degree of elasticity and integrate with public clouds. This means developing methods for managing virtualized servers with infrastructures that spread out over thousands of servers. Read More..
- Oracle Buys Eloqua For $871 Million: Oracle just bought software maker Eloqua for $871 million or $23.50 per share.That's about a 30% premium off of Eloqua's closing price on the Nasdaq yesterday. Read More...
- A programmer's guide to big data: 12 tools to know: Whether they're building big data applications or just trying to gather some insights from their mobile apps, developers have more need than ever for analytics tools. It's a good thing so many companies are building tools designed with developers' needs and skills in mind. Read More...
- All I want for Christmas is network virtualization: It may not fit easily under the Christmas tree, but a network virtualization company seems to be on every venture capital firm's wishlist this year. The latest network virtualization company to outshine the Furby and the iPad Mini is Pluribus Networks. Read More...
- RIM Sends Out BlackBerry 10 Launch Invites: Research in Motion (RIM) on Monday sent out press invites for its BlackBerry 10 global launch event. RIM will officially unveil BlackBerry 10 to the public Jan. 30, 2013.Read More...
- Amazon Web Services Adds New Storage For Data Intensive Applications: Amazon Web Services has added a new storage instance for data intensive applications. The new instances are designed for applications that require high storage depth and I/O performance.Read More...
- Larry Ellison Says His Cloud Is Beating The Pants Off Big Rival Workday: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says that Oracle's cloud business is growing largely at the expense of Workday, the new company founded by his old nemesis, Dave Duffield. Read More...
- Six Tech Trends That Will Rock Enterprise IT In 2013: In 2012, IT growth and innovation centered around mobile devices, cloud services, social networking and Big Data. 2013 is likely to see accelerated adoption in all those areas, as many companies move from experimenting and testing to deployment. Read More...
- Dropbox hires sales execs from Salesforce and Apple to bolster its enterprise push: Dropbox has had no trouble convincing consumers to use its tools, but it will need a dedicated sales team to reach large enterprises. To bolster its sales and support team, it has brought on Kevin Egan, a vice president at Salesforce.com, and Kim Malone Scott, who ascended the proverbial ladder at tech giants like Google and Apple. Read more...
Blog Post of the Week:
- Oracle Beats the Street but Still Looks Boring: Oracle reported numbers yesterday and the results were better than expected. Earnings on a per-share basis were 64 cents, three cents above the consensus of 61 cents. Sales were $9.11 billion, beating the consensus estimate of $9.03 billion. The main driver for the outstanding performance was new software license sales, which rose by 17 percent to reach $2.4 billion. License updates grew 7 percent to $4.3 billion. Hardware revenue was $734 million. And yet, it didn't matter....Read More...
What's New with Tellago:
- The Tellago family would like to wish a very Happy Holidays to all our customers, partners and everyone who has supported us through this year. We are going into 2013 with a renewed focus in the technologies that are changing the enterprise IT landscape such as enterprise mobility, big data, cloud computing, enterprise security, etc. Expect some very exciting annoucements in the first few months of the year. Happy Holidays!