Websphere News Desk

IBM Buys Transitive

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:45:00 EST

IBM is going to buy Transitive, the British cross-platform virtualization firm that salvaged legacy Macintosh programs and made Apple's move from IBM to Intel chips as graceful as a prima ballerina’s pirouette. Transitive is clever at running applications written for one kind of microprocessor and operating system on multiple platforms with little or no modification and could probably be made to run all legacy apps in virtualized form on a single hardware platform.

Emulex FCoE CNAs Compatible with IBM System x Servers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(7979), x3655(7943) and x3755(7163) series servers. Emulex CNAs enable the consolidation of server I/O, allowing IBM customers to reduce the number of network interface cards and cables used by servers by as much as 50 percent, which in turn helps lower power and cooling costs.

IBM Sued by the Exec It Barred from Joining Apple

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:00 EST

Mark Papermaster, the ex-VP of blade development at IBM and the guy that IBM stopped from going to Apple to run its iPod and IPhone development on the strength of the non-compete he signed, has sued his former master looking for a declaratory judgment in his favor.

The Cloud Comes This Week to San Jose

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

A round-up of the many themes and topics of interest to infrastructure architects, developers and IT managers featuring at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference is expecting a record turnout of senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, and directors of infrastructure.

CA's Swainson Gets Cloud Computing as Much as Larry Ellison Does

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:45:00 EST

Okay, here's the deal. When you observe the big software guys and see how quickly they adopt emerging technologies, which will change IT the way we know it today, here is what we see. Larry Ellison invested millions in old SaaS / cloud companies, which gave him zippo in return, and he now, together with Richard Stallman and Raul Castro, is a cloud hater. Don't expect Oracle to do anything meaningful in the cloud space.

SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Attracts 40 Sponsors and 1,000 Delegates

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:00:00 EST

"More than a half dozen conferences and events targeting Virtualization and Cloud Computing canceled in the past two months," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO of SYS-CON Media. "We predicted that this would be the outcome for many competing shows due to the current economic conditions," he adds. "We will serve the Cloud Computing industry, our sponsors, advertising partners, and delegates as the leading global event around the globe for the next decade," said Carmen Gonzalez, Sr. VP of sales and advertising at SYS-CON Media.

More Than 40 Companies to Exhibit at the 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:15:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that more than 40 Cloud technology providers, as well as Virtualization and SOA companies will exhibit at the upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conference will be colocated with SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.VirtualizationConference.com).

RightScale to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken’s two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover:

Lotus Goes into the Hardware Business

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:15:00 EST

IBM has found something else to do with Linux. Its Lotus software operation is going into the hardware business – it’s concocted a Linux-based server appliance for e-mail, calendaring and its OpenOffice-based Symphony software for SMBs called IBM Lotus Foundations Start.

Court Tells Ex-IBM Exec to Stop Working for Apple

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

Well it appears that non-compete agreements may carry a bit more weight in New York than they do in California – at least to a judge right down the block from IBM headquarters. Steve Jobs’ pick to run Apple’s iPod and iPhone development has been told by a New York federal court that he can’t work there. Mark Papermaster only started working for Apple last Tuesday and on Friday Judge Kenneth Karas told him to “immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc until further order of this court.”

HP Backs into the Cloud

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST

HP has said it doesn’t want to be in the cloud business itself – merely sell gear to cloud makers – but it’s lined up with little Salesforce.com rival NetSuite – owned mostly by Larry Ellison – to offer NetSuite’s SaaS CRM and ERP applications to SMBs through its 15,000 US resellers. HP now has a referral program for its channel, which can offer their own value-added management and implementation services alongside the NetSuite widgetry as part of HP’s Total Care portfolio.

SAP and CA Ships Diagnostics Application by CA Wily

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:00:00 EST

Further demonstrating continued evidence that the SAP ecosystem strategy delivers additional choices, value and flexibility for customers, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced a global reseller agreement that will enable SAP to resell the CA Wily Introscope(R) solution as SAP(R) Extended Diagnostics by CA Wily, a comprehensive application performance management solution that helps to ensure mission-critical Web applications and Web services meet customers' business and performance goals. The announcement was made at SAP(R) TechEd 2008 Bangalore, being held Nov. 12-14, in Bangalore, India.

IBM to Present at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST

Cloud Computing is now an all-encompassing IT paradigm with tremendous focus on the so-called "Public Clouds" as IT Service Providers. But while the promise of public clouds is very alluring, many existing corporate data centers today exceed the total capacity of many of today's cloud providers. A transition of all compute resources to the public cloud is not going to happen over night - and, in fact, there are a number of inhibitors beyond just capacity inhibiting their adoption.

1105 Media Cancels "Virtualization Live" Conference Due to Recession, It Says

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:30:00 EST

This is the sentence that screams "We don't get it, we don't get it, someone please help us, we don't get it!" Hello my friends at 1105 Media, hello there! There have not been "print issues " or "print magazines" or print anything for the past five years in technology media. IDG does not do print; CMP does not do print; SYS-CON does not do print.

VMware Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:45:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

VMware Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:11:00 EST

Mellanox, Dell and AMD Bring High-Performance Computing Expertise to More Organizations

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:32:00 EST

To create application and workload best practices, Mellanox, Dell, and AMD have provided a new Dell PowerEdge SC 1435 twenty-four node cluster, utilizing the latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors and Mellanox ConnectX® InfiniBand adapters to the HPC Advisory Council Cluster Center. The new cluster, named Osiris after the green Egyptian god, is located in the Mellanox facility in Santa Clara, California, and provides local and remote access for users. Remote access can be requested at www.mellanox.com/clustercenter.

NetSuite Hurls Stone at German Goliath

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:43:00 EST

NetSuite, Larry Ellison’s other company, the on-demand one usually seen as a foil for Salesforce.com and its CEO, ex-Ellison lieutenant Marc Benioff, has started directing its attention to Larry’s great hereditary enemy, SAP. It’s got a new migration program called Business ByNetSuite – a name obviously inspired by SAP’s own bollixed contribution to cloudware, Business ByDesign.

DataServices World 2008 West: IBM's Malaika to Present on SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:20:00 EST

XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations.

SOA, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Will Flourish During this Recession

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

As far as the software industry goes, these tough economic days give the biggest business advantage to those companies who contribute directly to the solution of the big global problem and they will be the first to flourish as we dig ourselves from the ditch. Call that the new Y2K problem of our times, and it won’t go away on a predetermined date, as the clocks hit midnight. And on top of this list comes three recession curing technologies: SOA, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.

If Gas Prices Spike Again Do We Picket Armonk?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:15:00 EST

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano has been named “presiding director” of Exxon’s board. It means that – in the name of corporate governance – he will chair the board in the absence of the real chairman, CEO Rex Tillerson, and chair executive sessions of the independent directors

Yahoo & Google Reportedly Up Against a Hard Stop

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:40:00 EST

The Yahoo-Google negotiations with the US government are reportedly over. The Justice Department has supposedly had enough. The companies were told last Thursday to have their final proposal on how to structure their controversial revenue-sharing pact to prevent the DOJ from taking them to court in this week, preferably by tomorrow, according to The Deal. Supposedly the would-be partners collapsed under pressure and are considering shorting their proposed 10-year axis to as little as a year and may have to limit the amount of searching they could cooperate on.

Systems Integration with Openadaptor

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Openadaptor is a software toolkit that may be classified as a lightweight Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution. It provides a configurable component framework for connecting various systems and middleware implementations. In less technical parlance, the components are akin to Lego building blocks that users can snap together to build adaptors, which themselves are the metaphorical glue or plumbing between applications.

Cloud Computing: IBM’s Cloud Spreads

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:35:00 EDT

North Carolina State University’s Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) is being expanded – complements of IBM and its BladeServers – so that North Carolina schools K-12 all the way to community colleges and the University’s campuses across the state have access to educational materials through cloud computing.

Larry Ellison Is Annoyed But The Sky Over Armonk is Thick with Clouds

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

IBM said Monday that it's going full bore at cloud computing and launching a company-wide initiative to fill the cloud with new software and services. Amazon and Google have something of a first mover advantage with SMBs and ISVs; and IBM's vision is more a mix of tradition data centers and clouds.

IBM Starts Hosting Lotus Notes

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:45:00 EDT

IBM has turned Lotus Notes into a fluffy hosted service called Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging as it's been threatening to do. The move sorta catches IBM up to Microsoft with its $10-a-head-a-month Exchange Online. Big Blue is targeting its new Gmail-like service at companies with 1,000–10,000 employees for a Microsoft-competitive $8–$18 a head a month and says it can tailor the software and service plans to smaller – and larger – companies too.

Software Componentization and Competition

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

While manufacturing principles have brought higher-quality products to a wide variety of markets in shorter production times and at reduced costs, the software industry has struggled in applying the lessons of mass assembly to new application development. Manufacturing assembly in the software world requires standard building blocks to work from as the raw materials – in this case, reusable standard software components. That’s no easy task, but achievable in the software world.

Microsoft's Virtualization Chief to Keynote SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mike Neil, General Manager of Microsoft's Virtualization Strategy, will deliver the opening keynote at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel at the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. Mike Neil's keynote is entitled: "Virtualization Futures, from the Desktop to the Datacenter."

Intel Admits its Crystal Ball is Foggy

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

CEO Paul Otellini noted that $10.9 billion is the lower end of the seasonal pattern. The spread is meant to reflect the mixed message Intel is getting from its customers. Some say the macro-economic turbulent is having no impact on them, he said. Others are “worried.” Intel itself saw no fall in demand in Q3, he said, while admitting to some softness on the corporate side in September that is likely to continue. Both its processor and chipset units set records in Q3 thanks to mobile, though ASPs were lower sequentially or flat year-over-year, and that its new Atom chips and chipsets delivered $200 million in revenue.

RIA Conference Keynotes: Adobe & Microsoft

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging, effective user experiences across operating systems and browsers.

ILOG to Exhibit at SYS-CON’s AJAX World RIA Conference, October 20-22, in San Jose, California

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global rich Internet technology provider ILOG to exhibit at SYS-CON's upcoming AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. ILOG delivers software that empowers our customers to make better decisions, faster. Visit our booth at the exhibit to learn about ILOG’s products for building advanced graphical displays for the desktop and web. With ILOG’s Visualization products, user interface developers can add custom organization charts, workflows, process flows, dashboards, maps, schedules, 2D and 3D charts, and more. These products—ILOG JViews, ILOG for .NET, and ILOG Elixir--take full advantage of the leading Rich Internet Application technologies, including Ajax-enhanced ASP.NET and Java Server Faces, and also Adobe Flex and AIR.

IBM Announces Opening of Cash Tender Offers to Acquire ILOG

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:15:00 EDT

IBM has announced the commencement of cash tender offers in France and the United States, by CITLOI S.A.S., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM, for all outstanding shares (including shares represented by American Depository Shares ("ADSs")) and warrants of ILOG. The cash tender offer price for the shares is EUR 10 per ordinary share and the price for the ADSs is the U.S. dollar equivalent of EUR 10, based on the Euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate as of the settlement of the tender offers.

Web Age Solutions Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global SOA technology provider Web Age Solutions named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 West, which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

How to Sell an SOA

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:00:00 EDT

SOA in many ways reminds me of relational database technology. At it’s first inception, the concept of an RDBMS must have had a hard sell. Sure it made perfect sense to arrange the data and ensure that the relationships between the data were enforced but what was the business case that enabled the purchase of this new and expensive technology? You certainly couldn’t say that by introducing a relation database you were going to make the company twenty million dollars a year annually. So the RDBMS slowly made it’s way into the IT arsenal a little at a time, with justifications added in a variety of ways.

New IBM Servers to Power Merrill Lynch

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:21:00 EDT

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Merrill Lynch will use its new iDataPlex servers, a new class of data center hardware that allows mass-scale, Internet-style computing in a compact, energy-saving package.

Virtualization Expo - IBM Moves To Calm Earnings Fears

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:15:00 EDT

IBM got a jump on what people fear may be a nasty earnings season and pre-announced its Q3 results Wednesday night after the market closed. It said its income would be up 20% to $2.8 billion on revenues up 5% to $25.3 billion. It also reaffirmed its full-year earnings projection of at least $8.75 a share. The earnings look better than expected though revenues were light about a billion dollars.

SOA World Expo - Unisys Rolls Out New Mainframe-y Big Iron

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:56:00 EDT

On tap are the high-end Dorado 700 and mid-range Dorado 4000 and Libra 4000, all terribly real-time and transaction-oriented, as well as a new release of the company’s SOA-style Visual Studio-based Agile Business Suite and Business Information Server development environment software.

SOA World Expo - Web Services Using Apache CXF

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Since its emergence, Web Service technology has gone a long way towards perfecting itself and finding its right application in the real world. With the maturity of the specifications, Web Service technology, with its power of interoperability, is now the major enabling technology of SOA, which is being adopted by more and more enterprises to build their application integration infrastructure.

IBM's Got Its Head in the Clouds

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid computing, Web Services, virtualization and utility computing. IBM calls its initiative Blue Cloud - like it could have another name - and claims it's a 'game-changing model for Internet-scale computing,' providing customer with just the right size computer power while at one and the same time being 'green' as well as 'self-healing and self-managing' based on open standards and Linux. Lordy, if this thing was a cute guy with money, it would be every mother's dream.

Two SOA Projects That Can Pay For Themselves in Six Months

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full-scale reality. Now, you might be asking, 'How can SOA succeed where previous approaches have failed?' Because the standards, best practices and governance models have finally matured to the point where reuse can actually work.