This is all about those that devour in greedy gulps. It appears that there is an increasing hunger for software that can monitor and track heterogeneous environments and applications.

Oracle bought another company today and HP announced an enhanced asset management solution.

• Oracle to acquire ClearApp
• New HP Asset Manager identifies and manages virtual machine asset inventory and licenses, allowing customers to pay for only the licenses they need

Imagine if you had all of the data to do both (track assets and monitor apps) in one location and could use IT search to get what you needed – fast. That’s Paglo. And that’s why we call it SaaS IT and Operations management.

We also hear more crunching coming from the Google machine. We feel for Firefox, but think that Chrome has a long way to go. But, then again, where there is a Google appetite, there is a way.