IBM buys Telelogic

IBM announced it will purchase Telelogic, a software development solutions provider, for about $745 million in cash, reports E-Commerce Times.

Telelogic, based in Sweden, has about 8 000 customers worldwide and IBM plans to use the purchase to advance a "global software delivery strategy" that targets high-end users of software tools in areas such as aerospace, defence and life sciences.

The deal helps IBM fill in some gaps in its software development platform, in part because Telelogic had acquired a smaller firm about 18 months ago that specialised in enterprise architecture, said Ovum Principal Analyst Bola Rotibi.

When it comes to building the infrastructure that makes public high-speed Internet access possible, companies are keen to take on projects for large cities. However, smaller cities are another story, reports ZDNet.

During the past 18 months, MultiState Associates, a consulting firm for lobbyists, has compiled a database on more than 2 000 communities with populations of 60 000 or more interested in developing municipal broadband or wireless services.

Its data shows that while thousands of towns are interested in developing municipal networks, few vendors are willing to take on small projects. "I think towns are putting out RFPs faster than the industry can respond. I mean, there are several thousand cities pursuing this; there are only so many vendors pursuing smaller cities," Mitch Gorsen, VP of MultiState Associates, said.

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has revamped its storage virtualisation strategy in the form of the Hitachi USP V, adding thin provisioning to the mix, reports Info World.

The unit - which supports 247petabytes of virtualised storage capacity - delivers 3.5 million IOPS and increases the virtualised storage port performance of its predecessor, the TagmaStore USP, by as much as 500%, according to the company.

The key, said Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO of HDS, is the company's approach to virtualisation. "We're taking storage virtualisation to the next dimension," Yoshida said. "What other people have done is they've gone to the storage-area network to do virtualisation. Unfortunately, that's the wrong place to do the virtualisation, because in the network, you don't have any information about what the server wants to do or how to move the storage."