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Issue 7, Dec 09/Jan 10
Global colocation and internet exchange giant Equinix announced a $689m bid for competitor Switch and Data, which would expand its footprint by 34 data centers in the US and Canada.
Emerson announced a possible delay of its $1.2bn acquisition of KVM switch maker Avocent, citing competition laws in three European nations. The buyer extended its all-cash tender offer to buy all outstanding shares of Avocent at $25 per share until applicable waiting periods under Austrian, German and Hungarian antitrust laws are terminated or expire, according to an Emerson statement.
Google signed a deal to buy AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750m in stock.
IT market research and analyst firm 451 Group bought the Uptime Institute – a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based research organisation that focuses on the data center industry and provides data center consulting services.
AboveNet’s Q3 revenue was $92.4m, up 12.5% from the same period last year. Revenue from domestic metro services grew by almost one-half since one
year ago, and domestic WAN service revenue grew by about 35%. Q3 net income was $22.7m, up more than 50% from $10.4m one year ago.
Cisco’s revenues from Q1 sales totalled $9bn, or about 13% down from $10.3bn during last year’s Q1. Net income during the quarter was $1.8bn, down 19% from $2.2bn in Q1 2009. The company announced two major acquisitions during the quarter: IP-based mobile infrastructure solution manufacturer Starent, and videoconferencing system provider Tandberg.
Juniper’s Q3 revenue was $840m, up 5% on Q2, when sales were $786.4m. Juniper’s net GAAP income during the quarter was $83.8m ($0.16 earnings per share), up from $14.8m in Q2.
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EMC’s Q3 revenue (from all its businesses) was $3.52bn, an 8% upswing from the previous quarter. More than half of the revenue was generated in the US. EMC-attributable net income during the quarter was $298m ($0.14 earnings per share), a drop from $393.4m ($0.19 earnings per share) in Q3 2008.
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Active Power reported a Q3 $3m loss. The result was better than both the prior quarter’s loss of $3.5m and the loss during the same quarter one year ago, which the company finished $4.1m in the red.
“We are cautiously optimistic about the improvement in revenue we experienced this quarter,” said Active Power chief executive Jim Clishem.
Q3 revenue was $8.5m, or a 29% increase from $6.6m in Q2. The figure represents a 31% decrease from last year’s Q3, when the company reported revenue of $12.4m.
Digital Realty Trust’s Q3 operating revenues stood at $163.2m, or about 5.3% up from previous quarter’s $155m. The figure was 14.9% higher than revenue reported in the third quarter of last year.
Digital Realty Trust reported a net income of $23.9m ($0.16 earnings per share) during Q3, up 12.7% from $21.2m in Q2 2009 and up 29.9% in Q3 2008.
Intel Q3 was $9.4bn, with operating income of $2.6bn and net income of $1.9bn, or $0.33 in earnings per
share. The revenue figure represented substantial growth over the year’s Q2, when the company reported $1.4bn in revenue. Its net income, however, dropped from $2.3bn in Q2 2009.
Citrix Q3 revenues were about $90m less than those of VMware, but it reported higher earnings per share than did the virtualisation market leader.
Citrix reported Q3 $0.29 earnings per share, a figure more than three times higher than VMware’s $0.09 per share. Citrix’s revenue was $401m and VMware sales totalled $490m.
Citrix reported a net income of $53m. VMware’s net income was $95m; however, Citrix reports GAAP income and VMware does not. A company’s GAAP income is usually substantially lower than the non-GAAP figure. Citrix’s non-GAAP income during the quarter was $80m.
During the quarter, Citrix launched a programme offering free support, training and conversion tools to customers that switch from using VMware hypervisors to using Citrix’s XenServer or Microsoft’s Hyper-V.
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