Press Releases

IDEAS has released an update to the Server Performance Trend, which predicts that server performance will double from today’s levels during the second half of 2013. The Server Performance Trend is powered by RPE2, the atomic unit of compute, and provides a “whole market” view of how server performance is trending.

IDEAS adds a new name account, the Indonesian energy company PT PLN (Persero), as a customer for its IDEAS Advantage service.

Ideas International Limited (IDEAS) (ASX:IDE) and Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:  IT) (Gartner) are pleased to announce today that IDEAS has entered into a Takeover Bid Implementation Agreement with Gartner Australasia Pty Ltd (Gartner Australasia), a subsidiary of Gartner.

Takeover Offer Highlights

• Gartner announces a conditional cash offer for IDEAS shares of AUD1.40 each.
• The directors of IDEAS unanimously recommend that shareholders accept the offer, in the absence of a superior proposal.
• The offer price represents a premium of 9% over the 3 month VWAP, premium of 18% over the 6 month VWAP and premium of 33% over the 12 month VWAP.
• The offer is presently expected to commence on or about 7 May 2012 and will be open for 1 month, unless extended..

IDEAS has released the outcomes for its Server Efficiency Trend, which show that long-term server efficiency, defined as server performance per watt, is doubling about every seven quarters. The IDEAS Server Efficiency Trend provides a “whole market” view of server efficiency and is powered by RPE2, the atomic unit of compute.

IDEAS has released the first of its new IDEAS Trends research, Server Performance Trend, which shows that long-term server performance growth doubles about every 18 months. IDEAS Trends outcomes are unique because they are generated from IDEAS data, which has tracked the performance, efficiency, and price of servers over many years.

Ideas International Limited (IDEAS, ASX:IDE) announced that its profit after tax for the year ending 31 December 2011 was up 60.4% to $1,905,205 compared to $1,187,558 for the same period last year. Directors declared a five (5) cent final dividend payable in respect of the 2011 financial year.

IDEAS has added two new clients in Spain that are using the IDEAS RPE2 server performance standard  to monitor their contracts with outsourcing providers. Both are leveraging the RPE2 methodology to track how much compute power they are being charged for.

IDEAS announces its top 10 predictions for the IT industry in 2012. IDEAS believes that the evolution of next-generation server and storage systems, the diversification of client devices, and the continued rise of cloud computing will dominate the attention of IT managers throughout the year.

IDEAS announces IDEAS Membership, a free-with-registration offering designed to provide industry professionals with an easy way to keep up with IT infrastructure development highlights.

For the year ending 31 December 2011, Ideas International is expecting profit after tax to be between $1,450,000 and $1,600,000 and revenue to be between $8.7 million and $8.8 million.

IDEAS joins the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) to help guide the future of industry-standard performance benchmarking and to further cement IDEAS as an expert in competitive server performance comparisons. 

IDEAS launches CloudSizer (www.cloudsizer.com), a web-based tool for evaluating the cost and performance of public cloud services that offer infrastructure as a service (IaaS). CloudSizer uses RPE2 to normalize the disparate performance of cloud compute instances from various public cloud providers, ensuring that users make apples-to-apples comparisons.

IDEAS has upgraded its server consolidation tool, ServerCAR with new features that improve productivity and accuracy of outcomes. The highlight of these enhancements is the new Target Server Wizard, which allows users to evaluate potential solutions using a five-star ranking feature according to various metrics, including performance, performance per watt, and performance per cost. In addition ServerCAR had improvements made to the Smart Import tool to provide greater accuracy when importing server asset registers into the tool, as well as new memory perspectives, enabling users to compare their current and prospective solutions according to memory capacity.

IDEAS announces that The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), has adopted its IDEAS Advantage service, a family of online information and analysis tools to help remodel the company’s datacenter infrastructure. “It’s wonderful to have such a prestigious company as Guardian as excited as we are about IDEAS Advantage", said Stephen Bowhill, CEO of IDEAS.

Current IDEAS Non-Executive Director, Mr. Ian Birks, has been appointed by the Australian Government Minister for Industry, Innovation, Science & Research, Senator the Hon. Kim Carr to Chair the Government’s IT Industry Innovation Council.

IDEAS posted a profit after tax of $921,031 for the six months ending 30 June 2011, up 23.8% on after tax earnings for the same period last year. This increase in profit was the result of an 8.5% increase in revenues and only a 1.4% increase in expenditure for the half year compared to the same period last year.

IDEAS receives a Merit Award for its new CloudSizer tool at the NSW State iAwards presentation. The iAwards are designed to honour both companies and individuals at the cutting edge of technology innovation in Australia. CloudSizer is a tool designed to help users map their physical server setup with potential public cloud workloads, in a meaningful way that users can relate to.

IDEAS anticipates a profit after tax for the six months ending 30 June 2011 of between $825,000 and $925,000. Revenues at the half-year are forecast to be between $4.2 million and $4.4 million compared to $4.046 million as at June 30 2010.

Daniel Bowers joins the group responsible for developing and extending the IDEAS server performance rankings (RPE2). Daniel possesses 19 years of IT industry experience in roles spanning server hardware and software engineering, product marketing, and server administration. His primary areas of expertise include blade servers, virtualization, and datacenter technologies.

Ideas International Limited (IDEAS) announces a profit after tax for the year ending 31 December 2010, which was up 19% to $1,187,558 compared to an after tax profit of $997,285 for the same period last year. In addition, the directors of Ideas International, on 24 February 2011, declared a final dividend on ordinary shares in respect of the 2010 financial year.

IDEAS releases a new offering to help Enterprises with their Datacenter planning and decision making. Known as IDEAS Advantage, this family of online information and analysis tools will appeal to IT specialists in large Enterprises.

IDEAS has been listed as one of MIS Magazine’s 10 Rising Stars in its 2010 Strategic 100 annual edition. According to MIS Magazine (www.misaustralia.com), the Rising Star category is for companies that influence how technology is bought or sold and that these companies are ones that savvy CIOs should take note of.

Based on expected sales and expenditure between now and 31 December, IDEAS anticipates a profit after tax of between $1,050,000 and $1,350,000 for the year ending 31 December 2010.

The Australian Institute of Export (www.aiex.com.au) announced that Ideas International Limited (ASX:IDE) has been nominated as a finalist in the 2010 Premier’s NSW Export Awards under the Information and Communication Technology Award category.

Traffic to Ideas International’s (ASX:IDE) IDEAS Insights blog between September 2009 and September 2010 was up more than 100% compared to the prior twelve-month period (September 2008 to September 2009).

IDEAS announces an 82.7% increase in profit after tax to $744,176 for the six months ending 30 June 2010.

IDEAS upgrades its information technology blog, IDEAS Insights, with a new look and feel and more stories

IDEAS releases updates to its Competitive Profiles subscription information service as part of its ongoing quarterly enhancement program.

The server consolidation tool Server Consolidation Analysis Resource (Server CAR),has been improved with support for before and after analysis in different locations, and customer server utilization data can now be imported and modeled as part of any server consolidation analysis.

Ideas International wins the New South Wales (NSW) ICT Exporter of the Year iAward for its Competitive Profiles submission.

Subscribers of Ideas International’s Competitive Profiles CPSystems and CPStorage and the general public can now follow Competitive Profiles on Twitter and Facebook.

IDEAS anticipates a profit after tax of between $600,000 and $750,000 for the six months ending 30th June 2010 and an increase in revenues of 10-15%.

IDEAS announces that it is licensing its Relative Performance Estimate v2 (RPE2) and Environmental Database under a royalty driven license agreement with CiRBA, a leader in Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software.

Telstra has recently renewed its contract with IDEAS for use of its Server CAR, Carbon Calculator and Competitive Profiles suite to assist in making informed and well-planned IT investment decisions.

IDEAS releases its 2009 full-year results. Profit after tax was $997k for the year to 31 December 2009.

IDEAS announces its membership in The Green Grid. A global consortium of companies, government agencies and educational institutions, dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in datacenters and business computing ecosystems.

IDEAS anticipates a profit after tax of between $850,000 and $950,000 for the year ending 31 December 2009

IDEAS has signed a distribution agreement with US-based competitive intelligence research firm Current Analysis, Inc.

IDEAS has released a report and commentary in support of the new SPC-1/E Benchmark Extensions announced yesterday by the Storage Performance Council

Standard Chartered Bank has upgraded to IDEAS’ new Server CAR and Carbon Calculator to assist with capacity planning of its UK, Asia, EMEA and Middle East data centres and in particular to assess its environmental footprint.

IDEAS has announced that its competitive intelligence tools have been accepted for Australian Technology Showcase (ATS) membership.

IDEAS has today won the NSW Sustainability and Green IT iAward for its Server CAR submission.

IDEAS has released its report on possible future directions for IBM’s systems strategy, based on its uncertain bid to acquire Sun Microsystems.

IDEAS reported revenue from all sources of $7,115,423 for the full year ended 31 December 2008, a year-over-year increase of 11 percent.

Tony Iams has been promoted to Senior Vice President of IDEAS and will lead the US office and set the organisation's research direction.

IDEAS has launched new online tools, including a carbon calculator, to model server consolidation projects that could reduce a company’s IT carbon footprint by 80 to 90%.

IDEAS laqunches web-based tools to help companies consolidate IT infrastructure to significantly minimize electricity usage and associated costs, and reduce carbon footprints.

IDEAS announces the appointment of Mr. Stephen Bowhill as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer.

IDEAS announces the release of a new software tool that is specifically designed to help enterprise storage buyers model alternative storage consolidation scenarios.

IDEAS announces the appointment of Sal Capizzi as Vice President and Senior Analyst for the Enterprise Storage Solutions practice.

IDEAS announced it’s full year financial results for the period ending 31 December 2006. Reporting annual revenue for the 2006 year of $7.37 million, which is up by 5.9 percent when compared to the $6.96 million of the equivalent calendar period in 2005. This is a new record annual revenue result for the company

IDEAS releases Competitive Profiles Version 4, including a powerful set of user enhancements that are designed to improve the productivity of professionals engaged in evaluating enterprise-class server and storage solutions.

IDEAS announces its 2006 half-year financial results. Rrevenue for the half year to 30 June 2006 was $3.77 million, which wass up by 11% on the half year for 2005. Overall expenses for the half year were down by 9% to $3.66 million.

IDEAS announces a major enhancement release of its public website, which also features the new IDEAS Insights blog – an informative new resource focused on expert analysis of the IT infrastructure market.

IDEAS announces its full year financial results for the period ending 31 December, 2005. Reporting a post tax loss of $147,362 for 2005, which represents a 76.3 percent improvement over the post tax loss of $621,186 for the equivalent period in 2004.

IDEAS announces their 2005 half-year financial results.The company’s total revenue as at 30th June 2005 was $3.409 million which is down by 9.4 percent on the equivalent period in 2004. A net loss after tax of $227,252 was announced for the six-month period, compared to a net profit after tax of $215,696 for the prior year

IDEAS announces the appointment of Mr. Robert McKelvey as a Non-Executive Director.

IDEAS announces an agreement for leading German IT consultancy, Luenendonk GmbH, to resell its i~STACK research suite into the corporate market segment in Germany.

Leading Australian-based global IT research firm, Ideas International Limited (ASX: IDE), today announced its full-year financial results for the period ending 31 December, 2004.

Ideas International has today released the outcomes of their recent in-depth research report entitled  "Linux Strategies and Solutions.” The report analyses the Linux strategies of the market leaders Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun by highlighting areas of distinction and difference among their offerings.

The release of its new research product architecture (known as i~STACK); featuring a series of integrated deliverables designed to meet the broad spectrum needs of IT infrastructure research users.