Spinoff Embarq outshines parent
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NEW YORK  -  When cellphone giants Sprint and Nextel merged in 2005, investors had a lot of hope for the combined company.
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By The San Diego Union-Tribune  Sep. 6--The former owner of eMachines said yesterday he is reviewing his  options since Gateway rejected his $450 million offer to buy its retail  operations.   Lap Shun "John" Hui made the bid Aug. 23 to buy Gateway's retail  business.
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The two second-tier Linux companies will adopt common Linux software and engineering. Alas, this idea doesn't have a great history of success.
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'There's a new acronym we can hitch our disk to?' Storage behemoth EMC clearly wants to ride the wave of successful on-demand web applications that made headway in 2007. Or at least it wants to cash on the SaaS hype.â¦
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Company's drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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For the second time in two weeks, IBM Corp. will unveil a product designed to challenge its archrival in the data storage business: EMC Corp. of Hopkinton. EMC dominates the market for high-end corporate storage hardware, but IBM's new ''storage virtualization&quot; software could encourage defections from EMC by making it easier for companies to mix and match storage hardware from ...
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- Data storage company EMC Corp.'s  subsidiary, VMware, said it expects its initial public offering to be priced between $23 and $25 per share.
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(Source: Riverbed Technologies)  Golder Associates wanted to create a new, centralized Intranet, but was concerned about the performance of this system when accessed over the WAN. Upon review, Golder deployed the Riverbed Steelhead appliance solution not only because of its superior application acceleration, but also because of its easy integration with Golder's existing Cisco-based network. Additionally, Golder beta-tested Steelhead Mobile for use with its mobile workforce, and found it significantly improved performance.
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Despite the buzz over the public offering of its VMware software business, EMC Corp. of Hopkinton isn't forgetting its roots as a maker of data storage systems. The company will today unveil major upgrades to its key storage products.
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Recently, the Storage Performance Council (SPC) posted two benchmarks to its web site that were run on an EMC Clariion CX3 Model 40. What's a bit unusual in this case is the fact that EMC did not run the benchmark, Network Appliance did.
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Bob Levitus writes for the Houston Chronicle, âI love when Apple introduces a product like the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, which is significantly faster and more capable than its predecessor and cheaper to bootâ
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Benchmark just invested in a support vendor.  Another one.  Is there a lesson in this?
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Determined to utilize mobile applications to improve operational efficiency, food chain Au Bon Pain is taking the outsourcing route to save time and money in getting wireless tools into its employees' hands.Faced with the prospect of managing the enterprise mobility equation on its own, from device acquisition to applications development, the company of more than 200 bakery and sandwich shops decided to hire an outsourcing specialist to handle almost every aspect of its strategy.In a move that some market watchers contend will represent an increasingly popular model for launching and maintaining wireless business tools, executives with the company said that it made more sense to offload as much of the process as possible onto its partner, startup Enterprise Mobile, than it would have made to drive its mobile plans internally.At the core of the company's strategy is the development and distribution of a proprietary business management application delivered over Microsoft's Windows Mobile architecture."There's only so much we can do with almost unlimited demand on IT resources. Some projects you simply have to outsource," said Ed Mockler, senior vice president of IT at Au Bon Pain. "This is very nascent technology; we believe it will be very powerful for us in the long run, but we don't have the same level of access to carriers or Microsoft that a dedicated outsourcing partner could offer."Enterprise Mobile is handling everything from device selection and service contract negotiation to working with the eateries' internal development teams to port its business application, dubbed the Daily P&amp;L, from the PC to the handheld environment.In addition to its ability to oversee nearly every aspect of its project, Mockler said that Enterprise Mobile's specialization around the Windows Mobile platform was a crucial factor influencing its commitment to outsourcing.While Research In Motion's Blackberry products remain the de facto leader in the enterprise mobility space, Mockler said that embracing Windows Mobile made the most sense for Au Bon Pain for a variety of different reasons.Because Au Bon Pain already works with a number of Microsoft technologies, in particular its .NET applications development environment, the executive said it made far more sense to build around the software giant's wireless products."Everyone makes a judgment call regarding technologies that will last and prove cost-effective. We thought that.NET would be that platform and felt that it was a prudent decision to continue in that direction with our mobile plans," Mockler said. "We felt that there would be cohesion on all the platforms down the road and wanted to avoid challenges that could be created by a lot of handoffs between different technologies."By pushing the Daily P&amp;L application from the laptop to the handheld, the executive said that Au Bon Pain's field managers can respond to business challenges more quickly and shift their travels among the chain's locations on the fly to address any emerging problems.When the application was tied to the PC, managers typically planned their routes ahead of time based on where they expected to be needed. Now the workers can garner detailed operational information in real time and move to cut off any business issues as they emerge, he said.Moving forward, Au Bon Pain is hoping to port other internal applications, including staffing management and forecasting tools onto handheld devices. Mockler said that the decision to adopt a mobile outsourcing strategy has already allowed the company to accelerate its planning for those future projects.Mort Rosenthal, chief executive of Enterprise Mobile, said that most businesses are only now getting to the stage in their wireless initiatives where the prospect of using outsourced services makes sense.IT departments and line-of-business teams have handled the process of selecting devices and negotiating calling plans up until now, but as customers grow into more mature, applications-driven aspects of their planning, acquiring the services of a dedicated mobility partner is becoming a more appealing alternative to keeping operations in-house, he said."There are so many moving pieces that as companies attempt to take more of their business applications to the handheld platform, they're realizing that the whole process can become very time-consuming and expensive," Rosenthal said. "As with any outsourcing decision, when companies reach the point where mobility is becoming too much of a burden on IT departments, more customers will decide to head in this direction."As for Windows Mobile, Rosenthal said that the Microsoft platform is also benefiting from growing maturity among companies regarding the types of applications they hope to push to the handheld. Prior to launching Enterprise Mobile in late 2007, Rosenthal founded Corporate Software, considered one of the earliest and most successful resellers of Microsoft's Windows and Office technologies."Blackberry carved out a great market based primarily on mobile e-mail, but as companies move to push more complex applications into the wireless domain, in particular those already built and running on Microsoft technologies, there will be growing adoption of Windows Mobile," Rosenthal said. "Companies want to take advantage of their existing investments in other Microsoft products."
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More than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals.Getting real about virtualization
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Sprint named Dan Hesse, the chief executive of the wireline company Embarq, to the post, effective immediately. He will replace Gary Forsee, who was ousted in October.
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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Video specialist Seval Systems is born IBM Almaden Research Center has been doing R&amp;D in silicon valley for 21 years, but it's not too old to learn new tricks. All signs point to the center prepping for its very first spin-off, Seval Systems, centering around so-called brick storage meant to help with delivering video over the internet.â¦