The U.S. government remains a large customer for IBM, but Big Blue’s acquisition of i2 is the latest example of the company’s effort to grow government revenue outside its home geography. Perhaps more than any other technology company, IBM brings an ability to “get local” by building physical and...
Read MoreFollowing up on its July acquisition of appliance maker Greenplum, EMC has dipped into its cash pool and acquired storage vendor Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion to strengthen its arsenal of solutions for the data center. TBR expects EMC to leverage Isilon’s strength in scale-out NAS to augment its portfolio of solutions that are aimed at “Big Data,” including unstructured and object data from medical records, energy exploration, and media and entertainment. We believe this will open new doors to expansion in high-growth vertical markets, and better position EMC against competitors that maintain large, vertical-centric solutions businesses, such as...
Read MoreEditor’s note: , which is based in New Hampshire, closely follows Lenovo and numerous other high-tech firms. HAMPTON, N.H. — Technology Business Research (TBR) believes is more vulnerable than its competitors to the global economic slowdown and it will continue to be challenged to grow and maintain profitability; however, the company has strengths that will help it emerge from the recession as a strong competitor. (Lenovo, which is based in Morrisville, N.C., is the world’s No. 4 PC maker behind HP, Dell and Acer. Lenovo recently announced it would lay off 50 people in the Triangle area as part...
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