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‘Forza Motorsport 6’ Review: Asphalt Antagonist
Everything I learned about cars I learned from a video game: Gran Turismo on the original PlayStation. I have fond memories of leafing through that thick manual, absorbing all the knowledge I could about gear ratios, suspension, downforce, and the dizzying array of tweaks one could make to perfectly tune their ride to the racing environment, the weather, and the competition.
Storage spending veers toward cloud
The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.
Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC.
Internet giants and service providers typically don’t use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that’s controlled by software. As users flock to cloud-based services, that’s a growing business.
Revenue for original design manufacturers that sell directly to hyperscale data-center operators grew by 25.8 percent to more than US$ 1 billion in the second quarter, according to the latest global IDC report on enterprise storage systems. Overall industry revenue rose just 2.1 percent from last year’s second quarter, reaching $ 8.8 billion.
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Storage spending heads into the cloud
The cloud is where the action is in enterprise storage.
Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while the market for traditional external storage systems is shrinking, according to research company IDC.
Internet giants and service providers typically don’t use specialized storage platforms in their sprawling data centers. Instead, they buy vast amounts of capacity in the form of generic hardware that’s controlled by software. As users flock to cloud-based services, that’s a growing business.
Revenue for original design manufacturers that sell directly to hyperscale data-center operators grew by 25.8 percent to more than US$ 1 billion in the second quarter, according to the latest global IDC report on enterprise storage systems. Overall industry revenue rose just 2.1 percent from last year’s second quarter, reaching $ 8.8 billion.
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IBM’s OpenPOWER: A Lot Has Changed In Two Years
The OpenPOWER consortium was born of IBM’s own volition only two years ago last month. Back then, OpenPOWER was a partnership between five companies, IBM, Google, Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA and Tyan. Recently, the OpenPOWER Foundation marked their two year anniversary by talking about the growth of the foundation and its membership to 149 members in 22 countries and the broad licensing that has occurred thanks to IBM’s open licensing model. I talked about the OpenPOWER Foundation back in April of last year and the announcement of IBM’s new Power8 processors with their OpenPOWER partners. Since launch and last April’s announcement, OpenPOWER has really come along quite a bit and I wanted to take a 50,000 foot level view at where OpenPOWER started and where IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have gone since then.
Red Hat announces participation at IDC CIO Summit 2015 in Riyadh
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iPhone 6S Will Crush All Previous Sales Numbers, But Will Kill The iPad Mini
Speculation grows over what else Apple will announce next week (Ewan Spence covers the predictions here on Forbes), and we’ve had enough leaks about the specs of the iPhone 6S to spoil what product announcement Tim Cook will make for the device itself. But what is being overlooked is just the sheer weight of users likely to adopt the 6S as their next phone.
BlackBerry buying Good isn’t just good, it’s smart
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Today BlackBerry announced it is buying Good Technology for a reported $ 425 million in cash. While this is not a huge sum given the size of the acquisition, and BlackBerry does have cash in the bank to make this happen, it nevertheless begs the question, why would a struggling BlackBerry buy an also struggling competitor?
I have been predicting a consolidation in the mobile market for some time. And the various acquisitions over the past few years (e.g., VMware/Air Watch, IBM/Fiberlink, Citrix/Zenprise) have made it more difficult for the smaller players who kick-started the market for mobile device management (MDM). But now that mobile is a mainstream component of virtually all companies, the niche has matured. So BlackBerry acquiring Good is a continuation of the consolidation in the mobile market and particularly in the enterprise mobile management (EMM) market (the successor to the earlier MDM market). It’s becoming clear that only the strong will survive long term, so bulking up is becoming even more critical for companies wanting to remain as strategic players.
But what about Good and BlackBerry? What do they get out of combining? In my opinion, both companies win in this scenario.
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Good was planning a public offering, but with its mixed financial results (continued losses), it would have had a difficult time going public. The acquisition will make it part of an already public company, so it can avoid the scrutiny and difficulty of an IPO. And its investors get an easier path to recover their investments. Good also still generates a considerable amount of its revenues from secured email on different device types (especially iPhone, but also Android), although its push to become a full mobile platform for app development and deployment has been progressing. By partnering with BlackBerry, the secured email/productivity suite will get some renewed focus and a refresh/updating, which it really needs. Good’s broader platform play (Good Dynamics) had not yet gathered enough steam to propel the company to compete with the larger combined players I mentioned earlier and was feeling a lot of pressure in the marketplace..
What BlackBerry gets out of the deal is a larger installed base than it had and an ability to upsell many Good customers with additional components for a more complete EMM solution. It also gets a way to retrieve many of its previous customers who went to Good when they moved away for being BlackBerry shops as BYOD took hold and they moved to iPhones (and later Android), and as a result curtailed or eliminated their BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure before BlackBerry offered multi-platform support with BES. Bringing the lost BES customers into the fold by acquiring Good consolidates the BlackBerry customer base, including many that have both Good and BES, and provides BlackBerry with a potentially large gain in software revenues going forward (something it will be driving harder in the future as devices become a much smaller component of sales).
BlackBerry has been on an acquisition binge lately, with its WatchDox acquisition propelling it into the secure document container business, and its virtual SIM solutions attractive to an increasingly regulated market for split billing in business, as well as its recent addition of secure voice and text messaging to the platform. BlackBerry has also been moving closer to some of the device makers, in particular Samsung, whose own software solutions, meant to compete with BlackBerry and others, have not gained significant traction. Getting Good’s technology to push further into the app dev market makes BES a more complete solution, better able to compete in the market, particularly as it represents a more compelling cross platform offering for iPhone and Android, something that BlackBerry has struggled to achieve with its open BES platform.
However, integrating the two platforms will not be easy. BlackBerry does have experience here with its many recent acquisitions, but Good has much more technology to integrate than the previous acquisitions did, and far more overlap in capabilities. And the cultures of the two companies are different, especially since it’s clear that there was no love lost between the top staff (Good CEO Christy Wyatt spent much time and effort bashing BlackBerry whenever possible, and BlackBerry CEO John Chen responded accordingly). Integration of the people and products will likely take a year or more, but Chen has been down this path many times before, and he knows how to make this happen. I expect it will be successful given his track record, but it may not be without some “potholes” along the way.
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Bottom line: This acquisition was a marriage of convenience for Good, which needed some financial bolstering, and a way to give its investors an exit. Meanwhile, BlackBerry acquires a customer base that it can upsell, and it consolidates itself in the EMM market to compete with the few standing large players (IBM, Citrix, and VMware). Assuming that the two products can be integrated successfully and only the complementary “best of the two” remain, this is a good acquisition for BlackBerry and a good exit strategy for Good. It also bodes ill for many of the remaining smaller players, who will need to partner, be acquired, or fade away.
Jack Gold is the founder and principal analyst at J.Gold Associates, based in Northborough, Mass. He covers the many aspects of business and consumer computing and emerging technologies.
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Google Goes .XYZ, Netflix All-in On Cloud: What this Means for Service Providers
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Tech’s most famous logo, the NASA worm, gets a second life
One of the most iconic science and technology logos, the minimalist NASA symbol, is being honored by having its design bible resurrected by fans
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Bill Lodes Joins First American Payment Systems Leadership Team
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OpenStack Now Offers 3 Ways To Deploy Containers
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7 cloud services that make great gifts
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Got a loved one just starting out in his first job? Or perhaps you’re looking to gain an extra edge to help bolster your own career? Gadgets and productivity tips are great, but there are also a variety of Web services that can help us get organized, track stuff or simply get things done faster and better.
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