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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
 Turns out one of the government's key witnesses in its insider trading case against the Galleon Group hedge fund - the one that's brought down a senior IBM executive a heartbeat or two away from IBM's CEO - used to be employed by Intel and was charged in 2001 in a sealed criminal compl...Oct. 26, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,182 |
 There’s another burr under IBM’s mainframe saddle besides the Justice Department’s investigation into its practices with the European Commission passing the DOJ notes – a Neon burr. Neon Enterprise Software is a Sugar Land, Texas, mainframe tools company 100% owned by John Moores, the ...Oct. 25, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,474 Replies: 1 |
 There is now a thing called EuroCloud, for the moment a French-based SaaS and cloud community whose 70-odd members include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com, France Telecom and SAP and whose 30 supporters include Amazon. The object of the name is to share best practices and expand...Oct. 23, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,083 |
 Galleon Group, the $3.7 billion hedge fund at the center of the insider trading ring that the government, its wire taps and a reportedly secret SEC data-mining project exposed last Friday, is liquidating its funds and shutting down following what amounts to a run on the bank, according...Oct. 22, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 8,261 |
 Since the IBM Client for Smart Work is based on Eclipse, Linux and open Web standards, it can integrate with any third-party software. This gives companies the freedom to use technologies of their choice, extend their functions and preserve existing investments.
"Canonical is proud ...Oct. 20, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,310 |
 The real trustee, McBride says, is a Blank Rome lawyer called Bonnie Fatell who couldn't be bothered calling Cerberus - you know, Cerberus, as in Chrysler Financial and General Motors Financial (GMAC) - which was willing to put $25 million into SCO and get it out of hock because Cerber...Oct. 20, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,212 Replies: 1 |
 Robert Moffat ain’t running IBM’s systems business, its chips or its supply chain and he ain’t serving as an officer of the company following his arrest Friday on criminal charges that he disclosed confidential inside information on AMD, Sun and IBM itself to a hedge fund ring that was...Oct. 19, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,239 |
 IBM says it’s putting Notes and Domino collaboration software on mobile and web-connected devices such as the iPhone, Nokia smartphones, thin clients, laptops and desktops used to access corporate applications and business processes. In search of market share it will make Domino Design...Oct. 9, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,867 |
 After 10 years of trench warfare and a body count of close to $1.8 billion in fines, the European Commission is getting ready to pass Microsoft the roach of concord and close the book on the case. The EC said Wednesday that a final settlement of the browser issue, Europe’s updated vers...Oct. 9, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,868 |
 Gee and it was only four o’clock
yesterday morning Microsoft time that Microsoft’s
general counsel Brad Smith remarked that antitrust
regulators might try targeting somebody else besides
Microsoft for a change.
Like, oh, say, maybe, IBM for its $5 trillion 100%
mainframe...Oct. 9, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,685 |
 IBM has announced a new software technology called DB2 pureScale, running on IBM Power Systems, that helps clients increase their database transaction capacity while reducing the risk and cost of growing their IT systems. Jointly developed by the IBM Toronto Software Lab and Power Syst...Oct. 9, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,892 |
 Performed at IBM’s Innovation Center for Business Partners in San Mateo, California, testing was done with a full multi-tenancy configuration, the most complex large-scale extended enterprise scenario. In multi-tenancy configurations, a single system serves the requirements of multiple...Oct. 8, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,227 |
 The press release states that under the terms of the one year agreement, Sunwin will provide marketing support and technical staff to support Hunan Fuhui's sales efforts within the province. Additionally, Hunan Fuihui must distribute at least 50 tons of stevia extract within the first ...Oct. 8, 2009 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 4,221 |
 Under the terms of the agreement, GROUP will resell Unify’s market leading content archiving and e-discovery solutions for Lotus Notes to its more than 2,500 global customers as well as into the Lotus Notes market worldwide. Unify’s AXS-Link for Lotus Notes software (which it recently ...Oct. 7, 2009 07:02 AM EDT Reads: 3,332 |
 Having just gone into competition with Google’s Gmail Monday, IBM said Tuesday that it’s going to take on Amazon’s S3 storage cloud and anybody else in the storage cloud business by launching its own Smart Business Storage Cloud along with a so-called Information Archive. As with its d...Oct. 6, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,115 |
 A team of industry leaders in cloud computing will be hosting a free webcast to provide insights and best practices on cloud-based IT service delivery. Experts from Intel Corporation, Univa UD and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants will lead the session, which takes place on...Oct. 5, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,081 |
 IBM has announced LotusLive iNotes, a new email service that delivers the benefits of cloud computing with a focus on reliability, privacy and security, to millions of mainstream business users starting at $3 per user, per month. The new IBM LotusLive iNotes cloud service allows overbu...Oct. 5, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,137 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His...Oct. 4, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,847 |
 SAP Cash Optimization is available on IBM's Smart Cube as part of the Smart Business program. Designed from the ground up for small to midsize businesses (SMBs), IBM Smart Business is a radically simple way to select, install and maintain business software. Cincom's business intelligen...Oct. 2, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,023 |
 The Connecting to the Cloud series of articles, which I wrote for IBM DeveloperWorks, is now available in Japanese. The series introduces cloud platforms such as Force.com and Amazon SQS, including code samples in Java, and governance and policy, again including code samples (an Amazon...Oct. 1, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,673 |
 Remember that ad Oracle ran a few weeks ago on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and later on the back cover of the Economist and repeated on its web site claiming "Sun + Oracle is Faster" than IBM? Oracle's claim for an undefined Oracle-Sun box was supposedly based on TPC-C re...Oct. 1, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,107 |
 Telepresence centers feature high-definition visual communications tools that range from personal units to life-size screens that sprawl the length of the room, with duplex and directional sound. The technology allows clients to hold virtual meetings with multiple locations at one time...Sep. 30, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,176 |
 Taking a page out of Cisco's book - from the chapter on so-called smart cities - IBM late Thursday announced that the city of Dongying near China's second-largest oil field in the midst of the Yellow River Delta is going to build a cloud to promote e-government and support its transiti...Sep. 27, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,418 |
 IBM is buying the business of RedPill Solutions, a privately held company in Singapore that sells advanced customer analytics services to businesses in financial services, telecommunications, technology and hospitality. Financial details were not disclosed. It should help it compete fo...Sep. 25, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,662 |
| The mission of the IBM Center of Innovation for Linux and Open Standards is to drive the development and adoption of open standards and open source technologies among businesses and government organizations of Kazakhstan. The Center will help local software developers increase their Li... Sep. 25, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,109 |
 IBM’s paranoid defense of its mainframe monopoly is going to be tested again but this time if it blows the start-up out of the water, or denies it clearance to compete, it’ll be messing with an open source operation, and a European open source start-up to boot. The European Commission,...Sep. 25, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,597 |
 Today at a press conference in Dongying, China, the local government announced a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to use cloud computing to jumpstart new economic development in the region. Traditionally known for manufacturing and oil cultivation, Dongying will use IBM cloud ...Sep. 24, 2009 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,638 |
 Chongqing Jinshan Science & Technology Inc. (Jinshan), a leader in China's healthcare industry, is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) as it transforms from a traditional medical device supplier to a provider of medical and health management services. Jinshan will use IBM's digital service ca...Sep. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,076 |
 The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance can bring speed and agility to test organizations by drastically increasing the pace and ease with which users interact with WebSphere Application Server environments. I recently got a chance to catch up with IBM's Robbie Minshall. Robbie is a WebSphe...Sep. 24, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,715 |
 IBM and Canonical are introducing a new, flexible personal computing software package for netbooks and other thin client devices to help businesses in Africa bridge the digital divide by leapfrogging traditional PCs and proprietary software. This is the first cloud- and premise-based L...Sep. 23, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,616 |
 Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...Sep. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,311 |
 I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utiliz...Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 17,054 |
 Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,223 |
 EISA or Extended Industry Standard Architecture is a bus standard typically used for IBM compatible computers. It extends the AT bus architecture to 32 bits and thus allows more than CPUs to share the same bus. In Windows, sometimes when you convert a basic disk that contains an EISA p...Sep. 18, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,355 |
 President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement. President Obama will personally bestow the award at a special ...Sep. 18, 2009 08:38 AM EDT Reads: 3,314 |
 Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that it continues to offer companies an easy transition to Lotus Web Content Management (WebCM). In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must have the ability to effectively ...Sep. 18, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,309 |
 Sewell is giving up AMD v Intel, which has set records for the amount of discovery it has produced, Intel's appeal of the European Commission's heady $1.45 billion fine and the company's difference with regulators in Korea and elsewhere to report directly to Steve Jobs, who had no comp...Sep. 15, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,121 |
 Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more m...Sep. 14, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,279 |
 As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...Sep. 14, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,862 |
