Barely a few weeks after declaring it would stop actively selling Neoview, its data warehousing platform, HP has announced plans to acquire Vertica– an analytic database vendor – for an undisclosed sum. The deal firmly places HP back within the analytic data management market and marks the first acquisition for Leo Apotheker since he took [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Helena SchwenkMicrosoft and HP recently firmed up their commitment to the data warehouse and BI space by announcing a portfolio of appliances that pull together the infrastructure of HP with the information management and BI tools of Microsoft. At first glance this announcement might seem like Microsoft and HP are playing catch-up with others in the [...]
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkUncategorized
Courtesy of InternetNews on Tuesday I learned that IBM has added support for OpenID, Windows CardSpace and Eclipse’s Higgins Identity Framework to its Tivoli Federated Identity Manager (FIM) offering. As one of the enterprise identity management heavyweights, IBM’s announcement is an important endorsement of user-centric identity approaches. Such approaches are still in the formative phase [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2008 by adminUncategorized
HP yesterday announced long-awaited (at least as far as we are concerned) enhancements to its SOA software and services, which see the company beginning to realise the potential of its acquisition of Systinet (via Mercury) when it comes to SOA governance. Back in March, the other Neil highlighted that lifecycle management is one of the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by adminUncategorized
For many many years in analyst circles, it was almost obligatory when talking about IT vendors to say “well of course, HP makes all its profit from ink”. I remember looking, year after year, at marching rows of red figures as HP focused in on the performance of its software division in particular. It was [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by adminUncategorized
I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the company’s TechEd conference. The RedMonkers James and Coté did a great job of live blogging the event (here, here, here, here, here and here) – and there was even [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 by adminUncategorized
At the end of last week a webMethods’ press release popped into my inbox highlighting a recent demonstration of interoperability between the company’s UDDI-based registry (acquired with Infravio), HP’s Systinet registry and one of Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan XML appliances. In a nutshell, the three companies showed how policies attached to services in a UDDI [...]
Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 by adminHere’s the third in our series of interviews with SOA vendors. This week it’s the turn of Roman Stanek – one of the founders of Systinet, which was bought by Mercury (which was then in turn bought by HP a few months back). The 31’17″ interview has some great stuff in it. As we ask [...]
Posted on Saturday, April 7, 2007 by adminUncategorized
The Liberty Alliance today announced its Advanced Client specifications which are designed to allow enterprise users and consumers to manage identity information on devices such as cameras, handhelds, laptops, printers and televisions For those of you that are so inclined, you can read the specifications here but, in a nutshell, the Advanced Client relies on [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 by admin
