Posted on Thu, Sep 03, 2009 @ 08:06 AM
Alpharetta, GA (Marketwire) September 3, 2009 – Unitiv, a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions, recently announced the addition of Tom Higgins to their rapidly growing enterprise IT solutions sales team.
“Tom Higgins is a solutions-driven, client-focused sales executive. He brings exceptional experience from his many years in the IT industry working with world leaders in technology such as Sun Microsystems and Intel and Digital Equipment. We are pleased to welcome Tom to our growing team. ” says Chris Taddeo, VP of Sales.
Tom Higgins adds, “The secret to customer satisfaction is the TEAM and Unitiv quite simply has the most accomplished and ‘can do’ attitude team I’ve seen in my many years of partnering.”
Tom brings over 34 years of industry experience focused on solution-based technology sales. This background spans not only commercial solutions such as finance where Tom and his team from Intel introduced parallel supercomputing on Wall Street, but also solution development in areas like CAD-CAM and medical research. In total he has personally driven over $650M in computer capital equipment, software and services sales.
About Unitiv:
Unitiv, Inc. is a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions. Unitiv delivers its services from its headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, and its regional office in Iselin, New Jersey, USA.
Unitiv provides a strategic approach to its service delivery, focusing on three core components: People, Products, and Processes. The People to advise and support customers. The Products to design and build solutions. The Processes to govern and manage post-implementation operations. For more information, please visit www.Unitiv.com.
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Posted on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 @ 09:40 AM
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9A77JLO0.htm
Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Thursday it has received
the Justice Department's approval to move forward with its $7.4 billion
acquisition of former dot-com-era star Sun Microsystems Inc.
The deal still needs the go-ahead from the European Commission.
Clearance
by the Justice Department had been held up over questions about the
licensing of Java, a programming language that Sun invented that now
runs on more than 7 billion electronic devices around the world,
including cell phones and personal computers.
Another
potential antitrust question could surround Sun's MySQL database, an
open-source product. Some technologists worry Oracle could make MySQL a
lower priority as it tries to boost sales of its market-leading
database software.
Sun's performance had been shaky for
nearly a decade before Oracle outbid IBM Corp. for the Santa Clara,
Calif.-based company in April. IBM is one of Oracle's biggest database
software rivals, and is a major Sun rival in computer servers.
The
Sun acquisition will give Oracle more control over the development of
Java, a key technology used in its products, and also thrust the
Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company into hardware, a new area for
Oracle.
The Justice Department's approval was largely
expected. Even so, Sun shares rose 9 cents to $9.36 in after-hours
trading, moving closer to the $9.50 per share that Oracle plans to pay
for Sun. That indicates investors now see less chance of the deal being
scuttled.
Oracle's stock rose 17 cents to $22.11 in
after-hours trading, having finished the regular trading session up 16
cents to close at $21.94.
Posted on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 @ 07:01 AM
Unitiv, a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions, welcomes Mike Wojke to its rapidly growing storage practice.
Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) August 17, 2009 - Unitiv, a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions, recently announced the addition of Mike Wojke to their storage practice.
"Mike is a valuable addition to the engineering team at Unitiv. His expertise from Sun Microsystems and Storagetek have prepared him for working with a company like Unitiv that is focused on storage infrastructure solutions." says Chris Taddeo, VP of Sales.
Mike adds, "I'm excited about my decision to join Unitiv. There is a unique combination of remarkably talented individuals, flexibility and differentiating offerings in the company. This positions Unitiv to continue to be able to offer the highest level of support for our customers through the ever changing business landscape."
Mike brings to Unitiv over sixteen years of industry experience in storage engineering and storage architecture working with Fortune 500 customers. His most recent experience is with Sun Microsystems and Storagetek, where he focused most of his time as a Senior Storage Architect.
About Unitiv:
Unitiv, Inc. is a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions. Unitiv delivers its services from its headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, and its regional office in Iselin, New Jersey, USA.
Unitiv provides a strategic approach to its service delivery, focusing on three core components: People, Products, and Processes. The People to advise and support customers. The Products to design and build solutions. The Processes to govern and manage post-implementation operations. For more information, please visit
www.Unitiv.com.
Posted on Mon, May 25, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) May 25, 2009 – Unitiv, a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions, recently announced the selection of Chris Taddeo as Vice President of Solution Sales.
“Chris is a proven performer with valuable experience in the technology industry,” said Jeff Uhlich, CEO of Unitiv. “He has built a successful track record in sales and management at large technology companies like Sun and StorageTek. His selection reflects Unitiv’s commitment to build a strong and dynamic management team for our next phase of expansion.”
“From my experience working with the channel at Sun, Unitiv is one of the best resellers in the industry. When I made the decision to leave Sun, I wanted to work with a company with a strong growth strategy. With its proven track record and high level of customer satisfaction, Unitiv has set the bar above and beyond its competitors. The company is well positioned for its next phase of growth. I am thrilled to join the executive team.” said Chris.
Unitiv is in the process of expanding and broadening its service offerings to the marketplace. Unitiv will leverage Chris’s expertise in strategic planning, revenue generation, and client relations, to spearhead the growth of its sales and engineering team. The teams which Chris has led in the past have consistently achieved top performance in one of the economy’s most competitive industries.
Chris received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY.
About Unitiv:
Unitiv, Inc. is a professional provider of enterprise IT solutions. Unitiv delivers its services from its headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, and its regional office in Iselin, New Jersey, USA.
Unitiv provides a strategic approach to its service delivery, focusing on three core components: People, Products, and Processes. The People to advise and support customers. The Products to design and build solutions. The Processes to govern and manage post-implementation operations. For more information, please visit www.Unitiv.com.
Posted on Fri, May 15, 2009 @ 08:26 AM
By Jim Finkle
BOSTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) Chief Executive Larry Ellison shook up Silicon Valley last month when he made a surprise move to enter the hardware market by acquiring computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O).
Some analysts speculated that Oracle, the world's largest database software maker, actually wants Sun's software assets and that it might eventually sell off the hardware business.
Below are Ellison's comments on his rationale for buying Sun and strategy for turning around the struggling company.
Ellison supplied his answers to Reuters questions via email.
Q. Why does Oracle, a company that prides itself on high margins, want to get into the low-margin hardware business? Are you going to exit the hardware business?
A. No, we are definitely not going to exit the hardware business. While most hardware businesses are low-margin,companies like Apple and Cisco enjoy very high-margins because they do a good job of designing their hardware and software to work together. If a company designs both hardware and software, it can build much better systems than if they only design the software. That's why Apple's iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones.
Q. Apple and Cisco have shown they can make hardware and software work together. What experience does Oracle have designing hardware and software to work together?
A. Oracle started designing hardware and software to work together a few years ago when we began our Exadata database machine development project. Some of our competitors, Teradata and Netezza for example, were delivering pre-configured hardware/software systems, while we were just delivering software. The combination of hardware and software has significant performance advantages for data warehousing applications. We had to respond with our own hardware/software combination, the Exadata database machine. Oracle's Exadata database machine runs data warehousing applications much faster -- at least ten-times faster than Oracle software running on conventional hardware. All the hardware and software pieces, database to disk, are included. You just plug it in and go -- no systems integration required.
Q. Oracle's done integrated hardware and software design with the Exadata database machine. But Exadata uses standard Intel chips. Are you going to discontinue Sun's SPARC chip?
A. No. Once we own Sun we're going to increase the investment in SPARC. We think designing our own chips is very, very important. Even Apple is designing its own chips these days. Right now, SPARC chips do some things better than Intel chips and vice-versa. For example, SPARC is much more energy efficient than Intel while delivering the same performance on a per socket basis. This is not just a green issue, it's an economic issue. Today, database centers are paying as much for electricity to run their computers as they pay to buy their computers. SPARC machines are much less expensive to run than Intel machines.
Q. Is your plan to use SPARC to compete by lowering a data center's electricity bills?
A. No. Our primary reason for designing our own chips is to build computers with the very best performance, reliability and security available in the market. Some system features work much better if they are implemented in silicon rather than software. Once we own Sun, we'll be able to plan and synchronize new features from silicon to software, just like IBM and the other big system suppliers. We want to work with Fujitsu to design advanced features into the SPARC microprocessor aimed at improving Oracle database performance. In my opinion, this will enable SPARC Solaris open-system mainframes and servers to challenge IBM's dominance in the data center. Sun was very successful for a very long time selling computer systems based on the SPARC chip and the Solaris operating system. Now, with the added power of integrated Oracle software, we think they can be again.
Q. Your management team has no experience with delivering hardware. There is a lot of risk in going into an unfamiliar business.
A. Obviously, we want to hold on to Sun's experienced team of first-rate hardware engineers. For years, Sun has led the industry in building and delivering innovative systems. For example, Sun was the first company to deliver systems built on a multi-core processor -- what Sun called the Niagara chip -- and the industry followed. Oracle has a good track record of retaining the engineering talent from acquired companies; Sun will be no different. In addition, over the last couple of years Oracle gained a lot of experience developing and delivering our first integrated hardware and software system, the Exadata database machine. We have lots of hardware experience inside of Oracle. Hundreds of Oracle's engineers came from systems companies like IBM and HP. Even I started my Silicon Valley career working for a hardware company that worked with Fujitsu to design and build the first IBM compatible mainframe.
Q. There has been a lot of speculation in the press that Oracle is going to sell some or all of Sun's hardware businesses. From your previous answers it certainly seems like you are keeping SPARC Solaris systems business. Are you keeping the disk storage and tape backup businesses?
A. Yes, definitely. We believe the best user experience is when all the pieces in the system are engineered to work together. Disk storage and tape backup are critical components in high-performance, high-reliability, high-security database systems. So, we plan to design and deliver those pieces too. Clearly many Sun customers choose disk and tape systems from other vendors. That's what open systems are all about: providing customers with a choice. But Oracle expects to continue competing in both the disk and tape storage businesses after we buy Sun.
Q. Is Exadata moving to Sun SPARC Solaris?
A. Exadata is built by HP using Intel microprocessors. We have no plans for a SPARC Solaris version of Exadata. We have an excellent relationship with HP that we expect to continue. The Exadata database machine delivers record-setting database performance at a lower cost than conventional hardware. Customers love the machine. It is the most successful product introduction in Oracle's 30-year history. The Sun acquisition doesn't reduce our commitment to Exadata at all.
(Reporting by Jim Finkle, editing by Tiffany Wu and Matthew Lewis)