Deal Radar 2009: Nimsoft

Founded in 2002, Nimsoft is a leading provider of service level management (SLM). It develops and sells software to monitor and manage IT systems. In October 2009, the Redwood City, California-based company extended its reach with Unified Monitoring, solutions for virtualized datacenters, hosted and managed services, cloud platforms, and SaaS resources.

CIO Priorities: MindTree

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In my two previous articles, I spoke with executives at two leading tech-consulting houses, Accenture and Deloitte Consulting. In this article, I speak with Sudhir Kumar Reddy, CIO of MindTree Consulting, a global IT solutions company headquartered in India, specializing in IT services, product engineering, infrastructure management and technical support

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CIO Priorities: Deloitte Consulting

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the first article in this series, I talked about CIO priorities at Accenture. In this article, I speak with Mark White, principal and CTO at Deloitte Consulting. According to Mark, the top focus area for CIOs and CTOs is cloud computing. Let’s see what Mark has to say.

Storage Market Shrinks After 21 Years

According to a report published earlier this year by IDC, the $2.8 billion storage market, which includes technologies such as device management, replication, data protection, backup, and archiving, shrunk 5.2% over the year after 21 consecutive years of growth. EMC remained the market leader with 22% market share followed by Symantec with 19% and NetApp

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Deal Radar 2009: Outright.com

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on Outright.com, an online bookkeeping software provider for small businesses. Founders Kevin Reeth and Ben Curren had started a home business and wanted a easy way to manage their business finances on the web but couldn’t find one. Their colleagues suggested that they start one on their own, and after much deliberation

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Not Your Father’s IBM

After Intel’s strong results this week, yesterday IBM (NYSE:IBM), the world’s leading computer services provider with annual revenue of $103.6 billion, reported a strong second quarter and also increased its 2009 earnings outlook. IBM has benefited from its strategic transformation towards Smarter Planet solutions, business analytics and cloud computing. Let’s take a closer look.

Accenture Betting On Health IT, Smart Grids

Accenture (NASDAQ:ACN) turned in another subdued performance in the recently announced Q3 results. Even though their results were better than the Street’s expectations, both revenues and margins fell over the year.

Oracle Continues Shift Toward On-Demand Software

Yesterday, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) reported fourth quarter results that beat estimates. A highlight of the earnings call was CEO Larry Ellison admitting that Oracle is getting “a little bit” into the cloud computing space. More than a year ago, he was not so keen on investing in the SaaS sector due to the high cost of

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