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News Analysis: VMware Signals Commitment To Mobility With $1.54B Intent To Acquire Airwatch

News Analysis: VMware Signals Commitment To Mobility With $1.54B Intent To Acquire Airwatch

By R "Ray" Wang on January 22, 2014

Mobile Management Consolidation Continues And VMware Accelerates Mobile Efforts On January 22nd, 2014, VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced the intent to acquire Atlanta, GA based Airwatch for $1.54B.  More than just an acquisition of a leading enterprise mobile management (EMM) vendor, the acquisition represents a cornerstone for VMware’s mobile strategy for end user computing.  Should the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, airwatch, API, API Framework, App Wrapping/SDK, Apps Strategy, bring-your-own-device, Business Workflow, BYOD, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Security Officer, CIO, CoIT, CoIT and the New CSuite, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, Content Repositories, Device Usage, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, DigitalBiz, Directory Services, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, DLP, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Mobile Management, enterprise software, Enterprise Workspaces, Event Management, future of work, Internet of Things, IoT, last mile solutions, M2M, MAM, MCM, mdm, MEM, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, mobile, mobile device management, mobile enterprise, Mobile Management, mobility, NAC, News Analysis, OS Container, PKI, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Sanjay Poonen, SIEM, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, SSO, Systems Management, user strategy, vendor strategy, vitualization, vmforce, VMware

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on July 12, 2011

Citrix announced the acquisition of Cloud.com this morning hoping to flesh out its long-running cloud road-map. This Brief Note covers what this means for Citrix and provides some background. Summary There’s some clear motivations for Citrix: Filling whitespace – Citrix has long spoken about cloud computing, but they’ve yet to make a big splash on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, cloud.com Citrix, Companies, enterprise software, M&A, Open source, OpenStack, Private Cloud, Systems Management

Growing Dell – #SSVE Trip Report

Growing Dell – #SSVE Trip Report

By Michael Coté on May 19, 2011

Dell held an analyst event in Austin a couple weeks ago (titled “Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era”, or SSVE), coming out strong with its message of transformation and growth via an expansion in the general “enterprise IT” space. This was primarily based on two, traditionally non-Dell lines of business. The Growth Plan Our […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged conferences, Dell, enterprise software, ideas, marketing, Quick Analysis, SSVE, Systems Management

Sorting out “cloud security”

Sorting out “cloud security”

By Michael Coté on April 19, 2011

What people fear is The Fear of the New – The Unknown. They think something about cloud computing is wildly different – more than likely, it’s about exposing your technical debt in security, your current weaknesses, not introducing new problems.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, CohesiveFT, enterprise, enterprise software, Harold Moss, ibm, public cloud, Randy Bias, security, Systems Management

3 Important Things from the Microsoft Management Summit 2011

3 Important Things from the Microsoft Management Summit 2011

By Michael Coté on March 25, 2011

This week in Las Vegas, Microsoft came out with some strong, confident direction in their IT Management portfolio. There were numerous products announced in beta or GA’ed and endless nuance to various stories like “what exactly is a Microsoft-based private cloud?” Rotating in my head though are three clusters of important offerings and concepts to […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, conferences, microsoft, mms2011, Private Cloud, Systems Management

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on March 8, 2011

Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Chef, Cloud, Cloud Builders, Cloud Computing, Dell, Open source, OpenStack, OpsCode, Private Cloud, Quick Analysis, Rackspace, redmonk, support, Systems Management, The New Thing

The Developer Landgrab – Another Way to Look at Dev/Ops

The Developer Landgrab – Another Way to Look at Dev/Ops

By Michael Coté on February 16, 2011

After ejecting every function except writing code, development teams have been bringing those roles back to the core team, starting with QA, then product management, and now operations. The goal is deliver Frequent Functionality (features released more frequently rather than in big 12-18 month releases) and increase the value of the software by getting better […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Agile, agile development, automation, Cloud, Cloud Computing, dev/ops, GitHub, Programming, software as a service, Systems Management, The New Thing

Dell lead 2010 SMB PC share according to new Spiceworks research

Dell lead 2010 SMB PC share according to new Spiceworks research

By Michael Coté on February 8, 2011

Spiceworks posted an analysis of PC (laptops and desktops) market share drawn from it’s its 1.3M user-base today. This kind of Big Data based analytics is a rosey looking future for IT folks looking to get real, “numbers” analysis on what’s going on out there. Previous to this, the company has been putting out more […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data, Dell, hp, Lenovo, market share, smb, spiceworks, Systems Management, The Analyst Life

Puppet Enterprise – Brief Note

Puppet Enterprise – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on February 7, 2011

Puppet Labs released a major product last week, Puppet Enterprise, an integrated bundling of the open source automation platform, Puppet, and several of the other tools needed to get up and running fast. The Puppet Enterprise release is firming up Puppet Lab’s efforts in the mainstream world of enterprise datacenters and IT. While they have […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged automation, Brief Notes, Cloud, enterprise software, IT Management, Luke Kanies, Open source, puppet, Puppet Labs, Reductive Labs, Systems Management

OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note

OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on January 18, 2011

The open source cloud platform OpenStack has it’s first production use outside of the founding partners of Rackspace and NASA. Internap has launched, though still in beta, a cloud storage offering called XIPCloud that uses the OpenStack Object Storage.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Brief Notes, Cloud, cloudcases, Internap, Open source, OpenStack, Rackspace, Storage, Systems Management

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