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 There's been a flurry of discussion this week among Internet and Web standards heavy-hitters around WebSocket, the new communications protocol supported in Chrome 4 and Safari 5. What was the main issue? Is there some kind of fundamental security vulnerability with the WS protocol? Web...Dec. 12, 2010 02:30 AM EST Reads: 19,666 |
 Customers who want to consolidate WebSphere workloads onto a leading Intel hypervisor environment can get a performance boost by using WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (WVE).Dec. 2, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 4,490 |
 This high-level overview of the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance discusses current issues being faced in the information technology industry and how WebSphere CloudBurst addresses many of them. Dec. 1, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,927 |
 Experience WebSphere Virtual Enterprise’s enabling of smooth, interruption-free application changes by rolling out a new edition of a Web service application that is running in the cluster.Nov. 24, 2010 07:45 AM EST Reads: 4,486 |
 This white paper also describes IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise, a product designed to virtualize enterprise applications and services across the IT infrastructure. Nov. 23, 2010 07:15 AM EST Reads: 3,660 |
 This white paper from IBM is a follow-on to the Users Guide to WebSphere eXtreme Scale, updating the architectural content for WebSphere eXtreme Scale V7. Nov. 20, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,252 |
 The EU-funded VISION Cloud initiative, led by IBM, has been launched and is focused on creating a metadata format that will enable users' data to be interoperable among Cloud service providers. This is potentially a huge development for all business, but especially small businesses, wh...Nov. 20, 2010 08:15 AM EST Reads: 9,546 |
 This IBM Redbooks publication, User's Guide to WebSphere eXtreme Scale, introduces WebSphere eXtreme Scale and shows how to set up and use an eXtreme Scale environment. Nov. 18, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 5,641 |
 Learn how elastic caching solutions in your distributed environment can empower the application performance you need to obtain business agility and thrive against the competition while managing costs.Nov. 17, 2010 06:45 AM EST Reads: 3,829 |
 IBM launched a new private multi-tenant Federal Community Cloud (FCC).
It plans to add Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service offerings to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service widgetry soon.
IBM also announced a Municipal Shared Services Cloud for state and local governments. I...Nov. 10, 2010 08:45 AM EST Reads: 4,059 |
 After Bloomberg reported that IBM was planning to buy network security appliance maker Fortinet, the company has fired back with a denial of the claim and a demand for a retraction. Bloomberg had quoted two unnamed sources who said a deal was in the works. Fortinet only IPO'd a year ...Nov. 9, 2010 12:30 PM EST Reads: 5,133 |
 A while back, I wrote about the importance and benefits of patterns-based middleware solutions for the cloud. You can check it out here if interested, but the gist is that by representing middleware application environments as patterns, we target traditional inefficiencies when dealing...Oct. 30, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,393 |
 A filing in the Neon v IBM mainframe antitrust case managed to get past the IBM censors, who have been sealing court documents willy-nilly in the name of confidentiality agreements.
Imagine not being allowed to know the grounds for Neon's motion for a partial summary judgment - and ...Oct. 23, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,508 |
 Seeking an explanation for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s recent colorful outbursts dissing the HP board BusinessWeek went to industry analyst Rob Enderle who believes Larry had once hoped HP would sell him some of the pieces he’s missing to give IBM a run for its money. “HP is the only pr...Oct. 22, 2010 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,778 |
 As the adoption of cloud computing continues to grow, many companies are looking at how they can create services more quickly and efficiently.
In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dr. Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM Cloud Labs & High Performance On-Demand Solutions, ...Oct. 21, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,853 |
 In a surprise-to-many move, IBM, which always seemed to have more skin in the Java game than Sun, the technology’s nominal creator, has abandoned Harmony, the independent, breakaway, duplicative and competitive Apache Software Foundation open source Java project, to back Oracle, Java’s...Oct. 18, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,644 |
 IBM has acquired PSS Systems, a privately held Silicon Valley ISV whose software helps legal departments and CIOs analyze, automate and implement information governance and legal retention policies across massive amounts of electronic business information and dispose of that informatio...Oct. 17, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,708 |
 IBM has floated its CloudBurst pre-integrated cloud service delivery appliance onto its Power7-based hardware. It’s also tinkered with the x86 species of the stuff, which can be used on practically anybody’s machines.
The workload-optimized widgetry automatically integrates hardware, ...Oct. 17, 2010 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,724 |
 IBM is poised to become a change agent in public cloud services by enabling telecom companies to rapidly and easily roll out new "as a service" offerings to companies of all sizes, especially big ones. This week, the company announced the availability of the IBM Cloud Service Provider...Oct. 17, 2010 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,068 |
 Database rival companies, Oracle and IBM, will be working together to allow developers and clients to enhance existing Java investments and the Open Java Development Kit reference implementation. Java is a general-purpose software development platform that is specifically designed to b...Oct. 14, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,587 |
 Cloud companies cast a nasty pall over Wall Street Wednesday when they all seemed to drop simultaneously.
Reuters said the retreat started when Equinix, the big hosting company, said it had to cut prices to keep long-term customers after it acquired Switch & Data earlier this year...Oct. 6, 2010 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,952 |
 In an e-mail, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told the Wall Street Journal that he was “speechless” that HP hired ousted SAP CEO Léo Apotheker to replace Mark Hurd, the ex-HP CEO he hired.
“HP had several good internal candidates,” he told the paper, “but instead they pick a guy who was rec...Oct. 5, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,093 |
 HP's board had five other finalists that "could have done" the CEO's job besides Léo Apotheker, according to what HP's lead outside director Robert Ryan said in answer to a question during a conference call with Wall Street Friday morning, but it unanimously picked SAP's castoff CEO as...Oct. 1, 2010 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,620 |
 In a exercise in futility, HP first tried to get both the immovable head of IBM software and now systems Steve Mills as well as its $95 billion global sales chief Ginni Rometty for its CEO, according to Reuters.
HP’s search for a replacement for ousted CEO-gone-to-Oracle Mark Hurd is...Oct. 1, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,138 |
 If this is Monday then – according to the latest consolidation timetable –some big company somewhere must be buying something cloudy.
And what do you know IBM says it’s buying privately held Blade Network Technologies, a data center switching outfit it’s worked with since 2002, for s...Sep. 28, 2010 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,304 |
 IBM said Monday morning that it’s buying Netezza, the data warehouse appliance company that competes with Oracle’s vaunted Exadata widgetry, for roughly $1.78 billion net of Netezza’s bank book.
IBM timed the announcement to coincide with Oracle’s OpenWorld festivities which are just...Sep. 26, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 8,308 |
 "IBM is bringing analytics to the masses," said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software and Systems, as it was announced Monday that IBM is to acquire Netezza, Netezza is a leading provider of high-performance analytics in a data warehousing appliance. "We ...Sep. 20, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,096 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that IBM will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities !
The benefits of cloud computi...Sep. 19, 2010 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,742 |
 IBM is buying OpenPages, a close friend of Sarbanes and Oxley, on undisclosed terms.
An IBM study found risk management and compliance has risen in priority by 93% since 2005 maybe because two out of three companies had encountered material risk events within the past three years.
...Sep. 19, 2010 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,010 |
 Neon Enterprise Software, the Texas mainframe ISV suing IBM for antitrust, isn’t exactly leaning back in the saddle waiting for the trial to start next June, thanking its lucky stars that the district court – sua sponte – moved the proceedings up nine months.
Nope. It’s just asked th...Sep. 19, 2010 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,681 |
 It’s not everyday that the buttoned-down CEO of the buttoned-down IBM takes a highly public shot at a rival – however calculated – but Tuesday was a day to watch a master practitioner.
In an hour-long interview at a Wall Street Journal breakfast conference Sam Palmisano told all there...Sep. 19, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,753 |
 IBM and HP are competing for the hand of Israeli-based smart networking
developer Radware whose acquisition will go down for close to a
billion dollars according to Globes, the Israeli business paper whose
inevitably unnamed and chatty sources are usually on the money.
Both IBM a...Sep. 15, 2010 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,607 |
 There’s nothing like six month in the calaboose to round out one’s resume.
Robert Moffat, the ex-IBM server and chip chief who supposedly had a shot at being named Big Blue’s CEO someday, was sentenced Monday to six-months in prison for blabbing insider secrets to his mistress Daniel...Sep. 13, 2010 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,362 |
 IBM's new zEnterprise 196 server, powered by a 4-core chip with a record-breaking clock speed of 5.2GHz per core, is a monster. The top-end 96-core unit can execute over 50 BIPS and run 100,000 virtual servers. But, is it a mainframe or is it a cloud server? IBM engineering and sale...Sep. 4, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,078 |
 IBM, a non-contender in the 3PAR event despite the billions it's otherwise spent on storage, said Tuesday that it has thrown California's newfangled Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA), a lifeline.
Cal EMA is the deficit-ridden, emergency-prone state's year-old combination of its ...Aug. 31, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,017 |
 Worldwide server revenues surged 11% to $10.9 billion in Q2, according to IDC, which calls it the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003 and the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand.
Trouble...Aug. 29, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,848 |
 IBM on Friday announced the closing of its acquisition of Sterling Commerce. The company expands IBM's ability to help clients accelerate their interactions with customers, partners and suppliers through dynamic business networks using either on-premise or cloud delivery models.
Organ...Aug. 27, 2010 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,076 |
 The bidding for 3PAR now stands at $30 a share. That's like two billion bucks, pushing passed what appeared to be hysterical speculation about how far into the clouds the offers could go just days ago.
Dell this morning rolled out of bed and matched HP's price late yesterday of $27 ...Aug. 27, 2010 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,497 |
 IBM is buying Unica Corporation for ~$480 million for its advertising and marketing software. It’s paying better than double what the stock was selling for. The deal should close before the end of the year. Unica is supposed to automatically predict customer preferences around which ad...Aug. 24, 2010 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 10,157 |
 It’s a reporter’s dream. How often do you get a constellation of stars like this:
IBM is trying hard to ignore the fact that one of its own, a guy that was supposedly a heartbeat away from someday becoming its CEO, is currently looking at doing six months in jail for whispering famil...Aug. 24, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,421 |
