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One thing I love about The Register is how brash they can be in their reporting, but since they're English I'll use the word "cheeky".  While they don't denounce everyone & everything, they are brutally honest and I find that very refreshing.  Anyway, they have an article titled "Some firm named Unisys does something" that caught my eye because I got my private sector start in the Information Technology field with Unisys Corp. (NYSE: UIS) 18 years ago as a contractor for the U.S. Coast Guard.

As mentioned in the article; Unisys was previously known for their large servers, used most often by the financial sector and government agencies, as well as for their services.  Well, Unisys had difficulty competing when the low-cost, PC-based systems were welcomed into workplace and even after reinventing themselves as a service organization; they faced stiff competition in that overcrowded market.  I'm not trying to bash them, but I don't think they adapted quickly enough to accommodate their customers and they seem to be a shadow of the company they once were.

It appears that Unisys has tried to get back onto the map with their Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) strategy, which according to their press release "enables organizations to retain and extend their current IT investment as they transform the IT infrastructure to support continually emerging business demands".  Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite solutions are a key component of this strategy and include:

Virtual Orchestration, which provides automated self-service provisioning and management of virtualized server environments

Disaster Recovery Automation and Repurposing, which enables rapid repurposing of infrastructure resources within minutes to support disaster recovery requirements

Test & Development Infrastructure Automation, which facilitates the transition to different systems and eliminates the manual effort, potential for error, and time delay associated with provisioning servers

Automation and Efficiency for Production Infrastructure, which enables a pool of server resources to deliver just-in-time changes to accommodate business demand

Servers as a Utility, a custom solution leveraging Unisys outsourcing services expertise, which enables flexible provisioning of servers to support business-critical applications

Data Center Migration, another custom solution, which draws on Unisys best practices and services to help clients more efficiently create data centers or transition to new ones

I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for old time's sake and will watch closely if they are successful with this new venture.  Someone jokingly labeled them "Unisyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" in response to The Register article and I think it has been a long time since they've done anything exciting.  Do you think they can dig themselves out of the hole they are in?  Are any of the solutions listed above of interest to you or your organization?