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Asian shares were mixed Monday with China buoyed by recent data indicating its economic recovery, but other markets were unsettled by drops on Wall Street and the bailout of a crisis-hit <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton Tassen</a> Portuguese bank. Traders said the intervention by Portugal's central bank to inject 4.4 billion euros ($5.9 billion) into the crisis-hit Banco Espirito Santo late Sunday had an impact on markets, as did the Dow's substantial sell-off last week.Tokyo's Nikkei fell 0.31 percent or 48.61 points, closing at 15,474.50, Sydney dipped 15.5 points, or 0.28 percent, to finish at 5,540.9, and Seoul rose 0.35 percent, or 7.32 points, to end at 2,080.42.Hong Kong was up 0.25 percent in afternoon trade, while Shanghai jumped 1.74 percent, or 38.03 points, to close at 2,223.33. Shenzhen gained 1.40 percent, or 16.03 points, to 1,164.32."European risk is having an impact on the broader market," Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager of research at Chibagin Asset Management, told Dow Jones Newswires.In China, heavyweight blue-chip stocks led the gains, after an official survey Friday showed <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton Kopen</a> manufacturing rose at its fastest rate for more than two years in July.AJ Securities analyst Hou Yingmin told Dow Jones Newswires this was due to a "combination of an economic recovery, ample liquidity and market friendly policies, including Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect program."In the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.42 percent despite a solid US jobs report and generally good corporate earnings.Investors took a cautious stance after Thursday's rout, which sent the blue-chip index tumbling more than 300 points, giving up all its gains for 2014.Joshua Mahony, research analyst at Alpari (UK) told Dow Jones Newswires, traders were seeking to "determine whether this is just an anomaly... or a sign of something more significant".In currency trade, the dollar bought 102.66 yen, down from 102.93 yen in Tokyo on Friday, The euro bought $1.3421 in Asia on Monday, down from $1.3430 in US trade late Friday, while fetching 137.80 yen against 137.75 yen.On oil markets, the US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for September delivery was up 10 cents to $97.98 while Brent crude for September gained 23 cents to $105.07 in afternoon trade.Gold fetched $1,294.70 an ounce by 0800 GMT compared with $1,284.40 Friday.-- Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this article --In other markets:-- Manila climbed 1.51 percent, or 104.14 points, to 6,998.37.Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. gained 1.16 percent to 3,136 pesos, while SM Investments Corp. <a href=http://www.louisvuittontassenkopen.com>Louis Vuitton Handtassen</a> 0.89 percent to 797 pesos.-- Taipei rose 0.69 percent, or 63.68 points, to 9,330.19.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co gained 2.92 percent to Tw$123.5 while LCY Chemical plunged 7.0 percent to Tw$21.65-- Wellington closed down 0.38 percent, or 19.25 points, at 5,090.69.Fletcher Building fell 1.01 percent to NZ$8.82 and Air New Zealand was off 1.57 percent at NZ$1.875.lto/erf
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It's not just talk - they are backing it up with a lot of investment, said John Dinsdale, an analyst at Synergy.The so-called magic quadrant reports by Gartner, a technology research firm, are closely followed by tech suppliers and their corporate customers. The reports include assessments of tech companies' strengths and weaknesses as well as a graphic plotting companies on two axes. Left-to-right placement in the graphic is based on completeness of vision, and bottom-to-top placement shows ability to execute. Leaders are in the upper-right quadrant of <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Neverfull</a> the graphic, while niche players are consigned to the lower left.In Gartner's report last year on basic cloud services, IBM was among the niche players (and in 2012, it wasn't even included as a player at all). This year, helped by the acquisition of SoftLayer, a cloud startup, and its own internal investment, it has moved sharply to the right, and higher, though it is not yet in the leaders area - the vision is strong, according to Gartner, but the execution still lags a bit.Microsoft has moved up and to the right this year, into the leaders area. Last year, Gartner positioned Microsoft about where IBM is this year.Amazon is still the star in Gartner's chart of the cloud industry, some distance above Microsoft, the only other company in the leaders quadrant, among 15 companies Gartner included in the report.Measurements in the cloud marketplace are tricky. Companies define their cloud businesses differently. And the big companies do not report their cloud revenue or profit separately, although they do occasionally make statements.When Microsoft announced its quarterly results last month, it declared that its cloud revenue was running at a $US4.4 billion annual rate. IBM said its cloud business was 50 per cent higher so far this year, but did not supply a dollar figure. In its annual report, IBM said that its cloud revenue in 2013 was $US4.4 billion. So this year would appear to be on track to be well north of $US6 billion. Amazon's cloud revenue, according to a recent estimate by Pacific Crest Securities, will reach $US5 billion this year.Yet the Microsoft and IBM numbers include things not in the Amazon estimates. Amazon's cloud offers computing, storage and basic software tools used by engineers. But <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Palermo</a> Microsoft and IBM add the software delivered to customers over the cloud, from spreadsheets to data-analysis applications. IBM's revenue total, analysts say, also includes cloud-related services and even hardware used in setting up cloud computing environments that companies own themselves, so-called private clouds.So comparing Microsoft and IBM's cloud revenue to Amazon's is not an apples-to-apples exercise. For Microsoft, it is apples, oranges and pears, said Lydia Leong, a Gartner analyst. For IBM, it's apples, oranges, pears and the kitchen sink. Yet it is the business beyond basic cloud computing - beyond the apples, to continue the analogy - that is most strategic to Microsoft and IBM. They have to convert their lucrative traditional software products to cloud offerings, and both companies are doing that aggressively.Microsoft and IBM may lose licensing revenue in the shift to the lower-cost cloud model, selling services rather than products. But if they don't make the transition quickly, they will lose their most valuable asset - their long-term corporate customers.The cloud business today represents a tiny slice of the overall information <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Pallas</a> technology market, but it is where the market is headed. Microsoft and IBM are eager to make that transition, and so are their clients. In the past year, we're seeing customers take the incumbents with them into the cloud, said Robert P. Mahowald, an analyst at IDC.For tech suppliers, big changes in the models of computing delivery and economics can be brutal or beautiful. In the 1980s and 1990s, the shift away from mainframes and minicomputers to personal computers tethered to corporate servers - known as client-server computing - nearly killed IBM, and it made Microsoft the dominant company of that era.The New York Times

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@@@ It's not just talk - they are backing it up with a lot of investment, said John Dinsdale, an analyst at Synergy.The so-called magic quadrant reports by Gartner, a technology research firm, are closely followed by tech suppliers and their corporate customers. The reports include assessments of tech companies' strengths and weaknesses as well as a graphic plotting companies on two axes. Left-to-right placement in the graphic is based on completeness of vision, and bottom-to-top placement shows ability to execute. Leaders are in the upper-right quadrant of <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Neverfull</a> the graphic, while niche players are consigned to the lower left.In Gartner's report last year on basic cloud services, IBM was among the niche players (and in 2012, it wasn't even included as a player at all). This year, helped by the acquisition of SoftLayer, a cloud startup, and its own internal investment, it has moved sharply to the right, and higher, though it is not yet in the leaders area - the vision is strong, according to Gartner, but the execution still lags a bit.Microsoft has moved up and to the right this year, into the leaders area. Last year, Gartner positioned Microsoft about where IBM is this year.Amazon is still the star in Gartner's chart of the cloud industry, some distance above Microsoft, the only other company in the leaders quadrant, among 15 companies Gartner included in the report.Measurements in the cloud marketplace are tricky. Companies define their cloud businesses differently. And the big companies do not report their cloud revenue or profit separately, although they do occasionally make statements.When Microsoft announced its quarterly results last month, it declared that its cloud revenue was running at a $US4.4 billion annual rate. IBM said its cloud business was 50 per cent higher so far this year, but did not supply a dollar figure. In its annual report, IBM said that its cloud revenue in 2013 was $US4.4 billion. So this year would appear to be on track to be well north of $US6 billion. Amazon's cloud revenue, according to a recent estimate by Pacific Crest Securities, will reach $US5 billion this year.Yet the Microsoft and IBM numbers include things not in the Amazon estimates. Amazon's cloud offers computing, storage and basic software tools used by engineers. But <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Palermo</a> Microsoft and IBM add the software delivered to customers over the cloud, from spreadsheets to data-analysis applications. IBM's revenue total, analysts say, also includes cloud-related services and even hardware used in setting up cloud computing environments that companies own themselves, so-called private clouds.So comparing Microsoft and IBM's cloud revenue to Amazon's is not an apples-to-apples exercise. For Microsoft, it is apples, oranges and pears, said Lydia Leong, a Gartner analyst. For IBM, it's apples, oranges, pears and the kitchen sink. Yet it is the business beyond basic cloud computing - beyond the apples, to continue the analogy - that is most strategic to Microsoft and IBM. They have to convert their lucrative traditional software products to cloud offerings, and both companies are doing that aggressively.Microsoft and IBM may lose licensing revenue in the shift to the lower-cost cloud model, selling services rather than products. But if they don't make the transition quickly, they will lose their most valuable asset - their long-term corporate customers.The cloud business today represents a tiny slice of the overall information <a href=http://www.saclouisvuittonhomme.com>Sac Louis Vuitton Pallas</a> technology market, but it is where the market is headed. Microsoft and IBM are eager to make that transition, and so are their clients. In the past year, we're seeing customers take the incumbents with them into the cloud, said Robert P. Mahowald, an analyst at IDC.For tech suppliers, big changes in the models of computing delivery and economics can be brutal or beautiful. In the 1980s and 1990s, the shift away from mainframes and minicomputers to personal computers tethered to corporate servers - known as client-server computing - nearly killed IBM, and it made Microsoft the dominant company of that era.The New York Times

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