Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations.
In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete.  In his diatribe about why anyone with Equinix stock [...]

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Early news wires this morning report the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle at a $9.50 USD/share price.  While many of us were watching the dance between IBM and Sun over the past few months, this deal with Oracle leaves me scratching my head.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison says, “The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, [...]

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We’ve discussed the topic of data center energy management in numerous posts, and we’ve talked about a Green Data Center Maturity Model.  If the topic of energy efficiency in the data center is of interest to you (and it should be) I’d like to recommend an excellent resource for you.
Cisco is conducting a webinar next [...]

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That was quick.  Just this morning HP admitted it was in “talks” to acquire EDS and a few hours later it’s official.
HP will acquire EDS for $13.9B and brand it, “EDS- an HP Company” (creativity evidently didn’t get in the way of announcing the deal).  The new business unit will maintain its EDS centricity… with [...]

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