Armonk (ip-192.com): IBM announced that it has acquired Mountain View based Cast Iron Systems, a company specializing in cloud integration software, appliances and services. IBM expects the global cloud computing market to grow at a compounded annual rate of 28 percent to $126 billion by 2012, according to a press release. Integrating disparate systems running [...]
China (ip-192.com): While representatives from Lanxiang Vocational School and Shanghai Jiaotong University denied any involvement in hacking attempts against Google and other western targets, U.S. cyber experts believe they have traced the hacking attack on Google to the two educational institutions in China, several newspapers report today. US investigators also say that they have identified [...]
Redwood City (ip-192.com): "I am now satisfied that competition and innovation will be preserved on all the markets concerned. Oracle's acquisition of Sun has the potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products," said European antitrust commissioner Neelie Kroes. The statement summarizes the position of the EU finally clearing the merger between [...]
Dallas (ip-192.com): Both AT&T and IBM announced a new cloud-based computing service that gives businesses near instant on-demand access to computing resources via an online portal. Cloud computing already offered by companies such as Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Verizon Communications, allows companies to run software and store information in remote, large-scale data centers that can [...]
Redwood Shores (ip-192.com): In a broad advertising campaign involving The Wall Street Journal (wsj) and other business oriented publications around the world, Oracle tries to assure current and potential Sun customers that the company stands behind Sun’s SPARC hardware and the Solaris operating system. The campaign states that Oracle intends to spent more money developing [...]
Redmond (ip-192.com): The Open Invention Network (OIN) is reportedly near a deal to buy a group of approximately 200 patents connected to Linux that the Allied Security Trust won control of in an auction by Microsoft. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the group hopes to fend off potential litigation threatened by Microsoft. The [...]
