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Krish Krishnan

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein.

Hello, and welcome to my blog.

I would like to use this blog to have constructive communication and exchanges of ideas in the business intelligence community on topics from data warehousing to SOA to governance, and all the topics in the umbrella of these subjects.

To maximize this blog's value, it must be an interactive venue. This means your input is vital to the blog's success. All that I ask from this audience is to treat everybody in this blog community and the blog itself with respect.

So let's start blogging and share our ideas, opinions, perspectives and keep the creative juices flowing!

About the author >

Krish is a recognized expert worldwide in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a visionary data warehouse thought leader and an independent analyst, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications.  He has authored two eBooks, more than 75 articles, viewpoints and case studies on business intelligence, data warehousing, and data warehouse appliances and architectures. In his 19 plus years of professional experience, he has been solving complex architecture problems spanning all aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence for Fortune 1000 clients. He has designed and tuned some of the world’s largest data warehouses.

He is the president of Sixth Sense Advisors Inc., a Chicago-based company providing management, strategy, technology and analyst consulting services in data warehousing and business intelligence. He teaches regularly at TDWI, DAMA, IRM UK and other conferences, and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market. Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs for DAMA Chicago and is Ethics and Governance Advisor to DAMA International.

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Wait a minute - Mergers & Acquisitions are still going on

Last week's announcement from IBM regarding the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, shows that we are not done with the buying spree yet. What are the benefits of this meger or acquisition?

If you see the market, Sun has very little server presence, compared to the Storage segment, Java, MySQL and the Open Cloud announcement. This will mean

  • IBM can now extend its presence to the lower end of the market
  • IBM can play in the MySQL space, and have a strong presence in integrating their Appliance portfolio
  • IBM can have a stronger play in the Storage space
  • IBM can have a large presence in the Open Cloud opportunity
  • IBM can leverage the SAAS model for applications
  • IBM will be the universal controller of JAVA - this is huge.
  • A good chance of MapReduce being adopted by IBM
  • Virtualization and Server consolidation will get a newer IBM offering
  • There will be only IBM, HP and DELL left in the server market in the enterprise space
Well the list can go on and on. What does Sun get from the deal? it gets a strong "global" partner. Sun can augment the lower end and mid-size offerings from IBM well and of course the current partnerships that Sun has with Appliance vendors like Greenplum will be in question or maybe even extended to newer levels at IBM/SUN.


Well it is an interesting play that we will watch with great interest.

Posted March 23, 2009 1:42 PM
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