As you may (or may not know), in May of this year, Micro Focus announced its intent to acquire two of the remaining enterprise QA / testing software companies. In doing so, it seems to have subsequently begun a somewhat mild bidding war for...

Disclaimer: No, I'm not a recognised authority on green IT. And this is a blog (i.e., personal opinion). In recent years I've sat through numerous 'green is good' sermons from global IT vendors such as IBM, Cisco and Dell amongst others. I...

Symantec has been a very busy vendor of late. Some recent examples: Definitive agreement to acquire MessageLabs—a trusted provider of managed email security services to many organisations. In fact, MessageLabs, which is based in the...

First, a disclaimer: I'm not a Microsoft-basher nor a fanboy. Second, a warning: get out your noise-cancelling headphones if you don't want to listen to the marketing machine from Redmond. Things are about to get noisy ... It seems like...

It's not much of a surprise that Microsoft is emphasising the message that only 10% of server workloads are virtualised today. While it's possibly true, and I can't argue that specific point, it certainly doesn't paint the full picture of the...

2008 is going to see further attention to a wider range of virtualisation technologies. At Hydrasight, we've just started to publish our trends for the coming year. What follows is selected highlights in regard to virtualisation. VMware's...

Hydrasight has previously noted that it believes the enterprise security landscape will change significantly by 2009. Moreover, we stated that the vast majority of organisations will be unprepared to defend against an increasingly sophisticated...

You may have heard of the so-called $100 laptop project, which is more accurately known as 'one laptop per child' (OLPC) if for no better reason than it currently costs more. According to reports, and after much talk (but less action) by many...

I just got the chance to hear the details on HP Software's intention to acquire Opsware, formerly Loudcloud. In case you're not familiar with Opsware, co-founder Marc Anderson's blog states they help automat[e] large-scale modern datacenters and...

I received a mountain of comments regarding my blog entry about desktop Linux, which explored my early experiences using SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (as a potential Windows replacement for the business user). I must confess I was pleasantly...