By Rich Ptak and Bill Moran Oracle tends to be very aggressive in its attacks on competitors. Recently, Oracle made claims detailing why customers should prefer Oracle’s Exadata over IBM’s PureData and other IBM PureSystems. This paper examines and evaluates the claims Oracle makes that include IBM, IBM PureSystems and IBM PureData Systems. It presents [...]

Background HP has been working on a project called “Moonshot” for the last several years. After providing prototypes and some early installs in 2012, they are introducing the first part of the product line. Of course, the name of the project invites comparison with the attempts in the early 1960s to send a rocket to [...]

CA World ’13 in Las Vegas, included lots of insights, announcements and opportunities to interact with CA Technologies executives, SME’s, partners and, most importantly, customers. There was news in strategy, organization, products and the executive team, a fair amount that was the same and some significant insight into the thinking and operations of the new [...]