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Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe: Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....; Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-07
EIC podcast: Microhoo; Google and Big Blue; Sun: EIC podcast: Microhoo; Google and Big Blue; SunMicrohoo to YAHMic!YAHOO by Microsoft....... YAHMic!; Tags: Microhoo, EIC Podcast, YAHMic, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
IBM-Google hug in the cloud: IBM-Google hug in the cloudA software company and a services company....IBM has software, Google has services.... thinking of merging the two.... sounds familiar....Godzilla meets King KongIt's totally right that enterprise should pay and consumers shouldn't.; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Google Inc., IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-02
EIC podcast: Microhoo; Google and Big Blue; Sun: In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about this seemingly never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo saga, chat about the waiting game, ponder the options and note how it could define Steve Ballmer. Dan talks cloud computing and how Google and IBM are chummy. He also provides a little back...; Tags: Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-02
IBM-Google hug in the cloud: IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and Google CEO Eric Schmidt joined forces to talk up cloud computing, but their broader message was that consumer and enterprise technologies will merge. The fact that Palmisano and Schmidt pushed partnership on cloud computing wasn't all that surprising, but it is notable...; Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-02

In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe: Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...; Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents: It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...; Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Value Chain, Vendor, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Sam, Austin Ventures, Dan, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-30
IBM System Storage DR550 Externalizing Diagnostic Data: The IBM System Storage DR550 (hereafter referred to simply as the DR550) has been designed to allow it to comply with regulatory requirements. As a result of this, facilities such as ftp that might be used for sending diagnostic data to service organizations cannot be used. The question then for...; Tags: DVD-RAM, Storage, Data, Service Organization, IBM Corp., DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; White papers 2008-04-29
RPG, PHP, and history: While thinking through some of the comments recorded here as part of our discussion of development languages and environments I finally figured out what PHP reminds me of: RPG. RPG [Report generator] started out in the IBM 360 world as a report formatting aid, but never really...; Tags: Application, PHP, IBM Corp., Codd, Productivity, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-28
(Photos: IBM iDataPlex keeps cool without AC): (Photos: IBM iDataPlex keeps cool without AC)Wrong captionThis looks like a picture of a whole data center before and after iDataPlex.; Tags: IBM iDataPlex, photograph, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-25
Build your ITIL configuration management system using scope, span, and granularity: Effective configuration management requires you to capture and track data in your IT environment -- but how do you decide which data to include? This chapter from Implementing ITIL Configuration Management provides a detailed, jargon-free look at how to determine what data should go in your configuration management database (CMDB).Viewing...; Tags: CMDB, Configuration Management, ITIL, IBM Corp.; Book chapters 2008-04-25
IBM launches iDataPlex server; Eyes Web 2.0 customers: IBM launches iDataPlex server; Eyes Web 2.0 customersHeavy Computer - Heavy PictureThe image of the computer in this article is huge - 1375.77 KB. Someone's uploader is not doing a very good job. Regardless doing it without AC should be the mantra. Keep it up IBM.Air ConditioningThis system is NOT...; Tags: Data centers, Redundancy, Liquid Cooling, Condensation, iDataPlex, Eyes Web 2.0, Eyes Web 2.0 customer, IBM launches iDataPlex, IBM Corp., IBM Launches, A/C, server; Discussion threads 2008-04-24
IBM launches iDataPlex server; Eyes Web 2.0 customers: IBM on Wednesday outlined its entry to be the hardware vendor of choice among Web 2.0 companies with a server dubbed iDataPlex. Big Blue calls the iDataPlex a new server category (gallery right, Techmeme) designed to be one of thousands crammed into a data center. IBM claims iDataplex uses...; Tags: Web, Cloud Computing, IBM Corp., iDataPlex, Web 2.0, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-23
The new collaboration: Enabling innovation, changing the workplace: While companies see the value of innovation, they frequently fail to put the right tools in place to support those goals. The new collaboration will be built on technologies that enable easy knowledge sharing outside the firewall.Read this white paper to find how to collaborate and utilise these technologies; Tags: Innovation, Workplace, Collaboration, IBM Corp., Leadership, Groupware, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2008-04-23
IT optimization as a source of sustainable competitive advantage: Over the last ten years enterprises worldwide have transformed the way they do business by investing trillions of dollars in IT. They've expanded their marketplace reach while working more closely with customers and suppliers. The most innovative of these companies have created a substantial competitive advantage in the marketplace.Read this...; Tags: Optimization, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management; White papers 2008-04-23
Doing the Microsoft patent math: Doing the Microsoft patent mathI fail to see your point?Is it that MS is doing like IBM and Sun (open source "supporters") has done for years?How Many Are good?I wonder how many of these patents would stand up to a concerted effort to challenge them?As long as the U.S. patent...; Tags: Microosft, Microsoft Corp., patent, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-04-22
Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX: Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel (badly) by re-writing UNIX...; Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-04-22
Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX: Once upon a time I did a few articles for searchenterpriselinux at techtarget.com, but we parted ways very quickly over their commitment to Red Hat's anti-Sun marketing strategy. Ken Milberg, a guy I think I first ran into in the context of my original 2002...; Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Duck, IBM Corp., Attack, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-22
UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right: People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...; Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-04-18
News to know: IBM; Microsoft; Googlehoo; Safari; Enterprise 2.0: Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art. Gallery (right). Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7...; Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software; Blog posts 2008-04-17

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