Par 4 Expands Services Expertise With Flytrap Acquisition

Par 4 had a good three-year run with a sales focus and some help from sub-contractors, but Flytrap gives it the storage and virtualization services expertise to help it grow. Read Full Article

Enterprises fill client virtualization gaps as client hypervisors bake

Enterprises are taking it upon themselves to pursue client virtualization with the technologies they have at hand as they wait for players such as VMware and Citrix to come out with bare-metal client hypervisors and for clear market leaders to emerge. Intel Corp. is collaborating with Citrix Systems Inc. and VMware Inc. on bare-metal desktop hypervisors, and experts believe that a beta of VMware’s client hypervisor will appear at this month’s VMworld in San Francisco.

Bare-metal desktop hypervisors would eliminate some of the drawbacks of VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure by giving users offline access and the ability to use graphics-intensive applications. Such apps are bogged down by bandwidth problems when using VDI.
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Virtualization is a top trend for 2009; Storage Investments Remain Resilient

“With this focus on achieving cost efficiencies, it’s perhaps not surprising that virtualization dominates buyers thinking as the top trend impacting the technology industry over the next 5 years, with 69% of enterprise IT decision makers reinforcing this view.”
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Financial IT Budgets Dip for the First Time, By 3.7%, But Will Quickly Rebound

“Everyone right now is focused on survival and crisis, and a lot of institutions are looking at the short term, how many cuts can we make as soon as possible,” Garcia says. “But the market doesn’t stop, it continues to evolve, and those institutions that sacrifice innovation will be stuck in the rain without an umbrella.”
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Citi/Morgan Brokerage Merger Presents Disruption and Opportunity

Though the integration process is bound to be slow and painful, and the likely layoffs have earned it the moniker ‘Citi Morgue,’ Citi and Morgan Stanley’s retail brokerage joint venture has an opportunity to forge a best-of-both-worlds wealth management platform.
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