Hewlett-Packard (“HP”) and Dell are engaged in battle over the acquisition of 3PAR. 3PAR is a small storage company that has innovative technology to handle the amounts of documents, photos, and videos being uploaded to the Internet every day. Just how important is this storage company HP and Dell’s cloud business? Thomson Reuters estimate that 3PAR’s revenue for
Bradley J. Walz
How To Kick The Tires of a Cloud Computing Company
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Recently, I discussed the importance of thoroughly investigating a cloud computing company before handing over your data or information technology operations to a stranger. This topic begs the question of how to go about investigating these companies. Some of the larger, public companies make some of the relevant information publicly available. For example, Salesforce.com publishes some of the…