Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Garrou, VP of Global Solutions Management, Savvis (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: As far as your own infrastructure is concerned, you’re heavily into this hosting and colocation business. What is going on on the side of the hardware vendors or the infrastructure vendors, so to speak, that you buy from? What are they providing for you? Is this a topic that you can discuss at

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Oracle Acquires Sun. OpenSource, First. SaaS, Next.

The media chattered and twittered about the mega players HP, Cisco and IBM following the news of IBM’s desire to acquire Sun. No one talked about Oracle as one of the mega players in data centers. Larry Ellison’s ego apparently didn’t like that very much!

Sun: Now What?

I was never happy about the prospect of the IBM-Sun merger, and am glad to see that the deal has fallen through. But the question now looms even larger: what happens to Sun next?

IBM Wants to Buy Sun? Why?

Boy, I wrote the last Sun piece with a recommendation for Sun to hold on to its OpenSource business, and divest the hardware business, and thought that Cisco may be interested in the DataCenter business in particular. And the news this morning is that IBM is considering buying Sun for about $7 billion.

Sun Should Pursue OpenSource Full Blast

Last year when Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) took over MySQL, I asked if it would get into open source applications.

Layoffs and Tough Times

Every day, there are more layoffs. Today’s news is dominated by Sun Microsystems. If you are facing a job crisis, I want to point you to a motivational story: How Rafat Ali Found A Job. And in general, my message to everyone facing tough times has been and continues to be: Take control of your

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Deal Radar 2008: AmberPoint

AmberPoint is the industry leader in SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) visibility, management, and security software. The company’s software is used in 63 countries on six continents. AmberPoint works closely with other platform providers and system integrators to provide companies with the advantage of standards-based application architecture. Their solutions take a non-invasive, policy-based approach which uses .NET and Java to integrate with the enterprise.

Forbes Column 08: The Next VMWare

Here’s my Forbes piece, The Next VMWare. Related readings: