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HP's recent Strategy Summit in San Francisco provided a coming-out party for the company's CEO Leo Apotheker before 350-plus IT industry analysts, and he wasted little time setting an agenda. Information, Apotheker said, represents the world's "most valuable commodity," reinforcing HP's plan's to support "seamless, secure, context-aware" information access to connected devices of every kind.

"It's an interesting strategy," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Rather than attempting a purely technological fix -- which would be difficult or impossible in so complex and widely distributed an operation -- Microsoft and its allies applied a combination of technical know-how, sophisticated investigation and analysis, and legal muscle to take down Rustock. I expect we'll see them pursue similar efforts in the future."

"Logistically, the company is in a pretty good place for bringing its vision of the cloud to pass," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "HP has strong offerings across a wide range of hardware and service solutions, and is well-recognized across consumer and business markets. The biggest challenges are in developing stronger software offerings and strategies -- the primary justification for Apotheker's hiring -- and in organizing highly complex, cross-company solutions."

Last week saw a pair of announcements that could profoundly affect the way that companies plan, deploy and manage their datacenter infrastructures. ...

"Microsoft is trying to keep some of the excitement around Bing," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "They've seen some positive activity around Bing over the past few months. Now they want to provide consolidation services and create a one-stop shopping service for those looking for bargain coupons."

"I think it's important to note that there are differences between people using Google's free services and what Google might be selling to a private- or public-sector organization," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times Size Matters...

"From a philosophical standpoint, grabbing 'likes' is somewhat akin to measuring the number of hits a given website gets as a metric of measuring the value of something," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a potentially intriguing mec...

The finals of its highly publicized "Jeopardy" tournament found IBM's "Watson" computer system handily winning with a total of US$77,147 -- upwards of $50,000 more than the sums amassed by Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, its grand champion adversaries. ...

"We're dealing with an infrastructure that wasn't intended to support the level and complexity of traffic it serves today," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "Security professionals will continue to play catch-up until the infrastructure is replaced," King...

"First and foremost, Apple's strategy is predicated on the notion that its App Store offers publishers and owners of other content -- including music and video files -- a superior channel for connecting with consumers," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The company's 30 percent surcharge is the toll content owners will pay for traveling on Apple's road."

Anyone in the technology industry not captivated by recent events in North Africa and the Middle East needs to consider a change in career. First in Tunisia and then in Egypt, Internet-connected mobile devices and social networking sites were reportedly leveraged by protesters to effectively exchange information with one another and offer insights regarding events in their countries to a spellbound world.

"This may be the precursor to Arianna becoming the Rupert Murdoch of the 21st century," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Traditional Internet service providers like AOL are doing everything they can to remain relevant today in a world that is moving away from the ISP model they pioneered in the 90s."

Businesses can purchase single sign-on applications from security companies, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, pointed out. However, these are implemented across the enterprise, and integrating them can require considerable effort and expense "Rather than providing a...

The availability of legal media on the Internet has been a troublesome subject for content providers. "The owners of content love to get paid and like to get paid in a predictable manner," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "From a historical standpoint, we've been going through the content wars for well over a decade. It stated with AOL and the belief that whoever owned the content would own the Internet. But that's been a slippery notion. The Internet has wreaked havoc in the content industry."

"Oracle has been less than forthcoming about its plans, funding or support for open source projects, including OpenOffice and MySQL," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider. "Given that, it's not surprising that developers decided to launch The Document Foundation and LibreOffice."

EMC CEO and Chairman Joe Tucci called the company's "Smartest System" launch event in New York City, "not just largest in the history of the company but of the industry" -- but was that a fact or mere PR-speak? For my money, it was the former. ...

"Typically, when an executive arranges to leave a company, the severance package is based on an agreement between the company and the executive," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "When Hurd was hired at Oracle, HP was concerned whether he would be able to -- as an executive of a competing company -- keep HP company secrets."

"The consensus seems to be that, with the growing consumer interest in compute-enabled multimedia and similar types of capabilities going out into other promotional markets, that there'll be a new broad market for embedded chips that can perform fairly intensive graphic tasks," Charles King, principal at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld. "That's what Intel's been pursuing with Atom for awhile."

"The U.S. investors got hosed in the deal," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "The U.S. investors were oversubscribed by some $7 billion. When Goldman gets ready to offer an investment to their investors, they put out the word to let them know the shares are available and ask their investors what they want. The level of interest was huge. Having to withdraw the offer from the U.S. investor base now can't be seen as anything but a huge embarrassment for Goldman...

"The depth of the recession was in 2009, but we saw some overlap into the first six months of 2010," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times. "Microsoft's Kinect was cited as being a driver for the Xbox 360 surge," he pointed out, "but that techn...