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  • Growth And Buyback, Red Hat Looks Hot

    By Nick Chiu - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: ADBE, RHT, SAP

    Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), with a market cap of $9.53 billion, is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, including its Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

    Share repurchase

    On April 15, 2013, Red Hat’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $300 million of Red Hat’s common shares, replacing the previous $300 million repurchase program. The final $179 million more »

  • What to Do With This Cloud Stock?

    By Shas Dey - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, ORCL, RHT

    Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is an American multinational software company and the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, it is engaged in providing such solutions to different enterprises. The offerings include its core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, virtualization, cloud, and other storage offerings.

    The company is facing tough competition from its more »

  • The Cloud War

    By Shas Dey - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, CTXS, RAX, RHT

    According to Gartner research, the convergence of a “Nexus of Forces” i.e. social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information, will drive growth in technology in 2013. Specifically, Gartner has forecasted that the public cloud services market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to a total of $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012. Further, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including cloud computing, storage and print services, is the more »

  • What to do With This Cloud Stock

    By Shas Dey - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, ORCL, RHT

    Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is an American multinational software company and the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Rayleigh, North Carolina, it is engaged in providing such solutions to different enterprises. The offerings include its core enterprise operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, virtualization, cloud, and other storage offerings. The company is facing a tough competition from more »

  • The Cloud War

    By Shas Dey - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, CTXS, RAX, RHT

    According to Gartner research, the convergence of a “Nexus of Forces” i.e. social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information, will drive growth in technology in 2013. Specifically, Gartner has forecasted that the public cloud services market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to a total of $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012. Further, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including cloud computing, storage and print services, is the more »

  • Should We Take Advantage of This Stock's Significant Drop?

    By Anh HOANG - April 15, 2013 | Tickers: ORCL, RAX, RHT

    Buy low, sell high! It is a simple investment strategy that investors should follow. That is why I am quite excited to examine stocks which have recently experienced a free fall. Since the beginning of the year, Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) has dropped significantly, from around $78 per share to only $48 per share. Should investors consider this recent drop as a chance to invest in the company? Let’s more »

  • Get Your Head in the Cloud

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: EMC, ORCL, RAX, RHT, VMW

    There is a gamut of companies operating in the cloud computing space, including the likes of Citrix, Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), salesforce.com, Cisco, Juniper, VMWare (NYSE: VMW), EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), IBM, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Microsoft, just to name a few that have a hand in the cloud computing cookie jar. 

    Question is, which will pull out the biggest cookie? There are three key types more »

  • Who Gets Hit in the Cloud Hangover?

    By Dana Blankenhorn - April 9, 2013 | Tickers: RAX, RHT

    According to the famed Gartner HypeCycle, the cloud hangover has begun. 

    The HypeCycle , which Gartner has been hyping since the mid-1990s (meaning it's well past its own hype cycle) describes the bipolar way in which analysts view new technologies. That is, their perceived value peaks well before anything like real value comes about.

    This means trouble for most cloud stocks, in the near term. But these falls in price more »

  • Get Your Head In The Cloud

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 7, 2013 | Tickers: EMC, ORCL, RAX, RHT, VMW

    There are a gambit of companies operating in the cloud computing space, including the likes of Citrix, Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), salesforce.com, Cisco, Juniper, VMWare (NYSE: VMW), EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), IBM, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Microsoft, just to name a few that have their hand in the cloud computing cookie jar. 

    Question is; which will pull out the biggest cookie? There are three key types more »

  • 3 Tech Companies to Buy Following Recent Selloff

    By Chris Lau - April 5, 2013 | Tickers: FFIV, RHT, VMW

    Just as analysts were reversing favorably for the bullish investor, F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) plunged spectacularly on April 5. Sellers drove shares down by 19%, and F5 closed at $73.21. Just days before the decline, an analyst at Craig-Hallum raised the $90 target price to $110. With telecom equipment makers falling in sympathy and so quickly, it is a good time to determine if there a buying opportunity.

    The more »

  • Red Hat, Oracle, and the Evolution of OpenStack

    By Brian Jordan - March 28, 2013 | Tickers: ORCL, RAX, RHT

    Recently, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported less than impressive third-quarter earnings. Hardware systems revenue was down 17% year over year, which is not new for the company. As the decline in hardware revenue accelerates, management still continues to prime the pump for the release of the T5 and M-Series servers, claiming that some of the decline in revenue can be attributed to the fact that customers have been holding off on more »

  • A Tech Stock to Buy and 2 to Watch As Price Targets Are Upgraded

    By Chris Lau - March 27, 2013 | Tickers: ADBE, HPQ, RHT

    For the week ending March 15, 2013, Wall Street analysts raised their bullishness for a number of technology companies listed on the S&P 500. Value-oriented investors must question the wisdom of target price increases given by analysts. As soon as the optimism reaches the mainstream, the share price could already be too expensive for individual investors to buy. A higher price target forecast could also be a reaction to more »

  • Are these Analysts Making Good Calls?

    By Brian Nichols - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: BBRY, RHT

    Stocks can be pushed higher as analysts provide reasons to buy. These calls are not enough reason to make an investment, but should be considered as part of your research. Therefore, I am assessing Monday’s top calls, and determining if each was a good one.

    Margin Growth to Push Shares Higher in this Energy Company

    TETRA Technologies (NYSE: TTI) is now trading at new 52-week highs, and it wouldn more »

  • Opportunities In The Great Cloud Squeeze

    By Dana Blankenhorn - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, EMC, IBM, RAX, RHT, VMW

    There is a Great Cloud Squeeze taking place, even while the cloud market grows at an amazing rate.

    On the one hand, technologies are consolidating. If you're interested in building a private cloud, or linking a private cloud to public clouds to create what is called a hybrid cloud, your technology choices are decreasing almost by the day. This is actually good news for the market as a whole more »

  • How to Profit from IBM's Cloud Announcement

    By Dana Blankenhorn - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: GOOG, HPQ, IBM, RAX, RHT

    IBM's (NYSE: IBM) decision to commit its resources to OpenStack is a very big deal in the history of the cloud.

    Up to this point, the cloud market has been dominated by proprietary systems, mostly that of Amazon.com (AMZN), whose aggressive price-cutting has made its API a de-facto industry standard.

    Now, in an unsurprising move, IBM has publicly announced its intention to fight Amazon with “standards,” in this more »

  • Rackspace Makes a Move for Market Share: Are You a Buyer?

    By Brian Jordan - February 28, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, RAX, RHT

    Last week Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) announced that it was going to lower prices on cloud bandwidth and its content delivery network by 33%.  According to company spokesmen, the change in price is designed to attract larger accounts to the network by lowering the cost associated with bandwidth intensive processes such as video streaming and workloads that serve large amounts of content.  In addition to price reductions in content more »

  • 2 Tech Firms Trying Desperately to Excite the Market

    By David Gould - February 3, 2013 | Tickers: MSFT, RHT, VMW

    As anyone following Apple could tell you, tech companies rise and fall often based on fickle investor emotion. It's all, in my view, a behavioral game, one that even Warren Buffett doesn't want to dabble in. The best tech investors can do is to be cautious on short selling and look for growth opportunities that the market has overlooked. Below, I look at Red Hat and Microsoft with more »

  • Why Investors of This Stock Are Hating This Virtual Reality

    By Richard Saintvilus - February 3, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, EMC, MSFT, RHT, VMW

    That shares of VMware (NYSE: VMW) are trading down after a generally solid Q4 earnings report was not much of a surprise. Not to toot my own horn, but it was called here on the Fool well ahead of the announcement. In the article, which generated quite a bit of hate mail, I said the following:

    • While there’s no question that VMware is the undisputed market leader in virtualization more »

  • This Stock Is Risky, Yet a Bargain at the Same Time

    By Richard Saintvilus - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, MSFT, RHT, VMW

    Uneasiness sets in each time I come across a stock such as Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) that carries extremely high expectations. Although the company is doing well now, investors are beginning to worry on the long-term viability of the virtualization business – issues also plaguing rivals VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT).

    Complicating matters is that the competition has begun to chip away at Citrix’s business, causing investors to more »

  • This Stock's Value Is 'Virtual' But 'Really' Expensive

    By Richard Saintvilus - January 27, 2013 | Tickers: CTXS, MSFT, RHT, VMW

    The market is filled with examples of stocks that trade at high premiums. Ask any investor and they will gladly tell you with great conviction why such a high valuation is deserved. But if you press the issue and inquire about growth rates, uncertainty takes over. To that end, VMware (NYSE: VMW) serves as a perfect for example.

    While there’s no question that VMware is the undisputed market leader more »

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