XSi's Blog: The Alternative in IT Maintenance & Services

The 2012 Federal IT budget request is approximately $80.9 billion, of which 52 percent is civilian and 48 percent is defense. In 2011, the IT budget was $78.8 billion.

Overall, the Enterprise  I.T. industry finished with good results in Q4 2011.

Brussels, 14 December 2011 - The European Commission has made legally binding commitments offered by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in the mainframe maintenance market. IBM commits to make spare parts and technical information swiftly available, under commercially reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, to independent mainframe maintainers.

 Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard Co. are accused of infringing a patent for routers and wireless networks in a complaint that may result in a ban of U.S. imports of their products.

Oracles shares fell as much as 13% as Oracle reported it missed its 2Q earnings and losing $20 Billion of Market Cap and Sun sales were off by 10%.

The final F-22 Raptor, the Air Force’s stealth fighter will come of the line at Lockheed’s Marietta, Georgia plant today.

This article is courtesy of our colleague Gay Gordon-Byrne. Image added by XSi.

It’s always interesting to track worldwide server shipments and revenue. According to Gartner, shipments grew 7.2% year-over-year and revenue from server shipments grew 5.2%.

Can you trust a vendor who Overpromises and Under Delivers?

Cisco says you can’t and further says that Juniper Networks is not keeping its promises to its customers. Cisco has dedicated a website to it www.overpromisesunderdelivers.net in which they have a counter (up to 2 years now and counting), which shows the time elapsed since Juniper announced the successor to the T1600 core router, 100GE on MX series edge routers and Project Falcon mobile vision without naming a customer who is using MobileNext.

Thailand’s worst flooding in at least five decades has claimed 564 lives since July. While most of Bangkok’s central business district remains dry, manufacturers who supply parts to Seagate and other Thai computer disk drive and parts manufacturers are having difficulty and the flooding is causing shipping delays.