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- IBM's Tivoli heads to Amazon Web Services
- IBM's Tivoli monitoring applications are now available on Amazon Web Services. The Tivoli move highlights another addition to Amazon's stable of enterprise-class applications available on its platform. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Monitoring Application, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-12-01
- Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud
- Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key characteristics that have led to the popularity of the public cloud. To these ends, the Amazon Elastic...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Amazon.com Inc., IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Middleware, Management, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2009-05-20
- News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Amazon: king of the enterprise IT cloud
- In a previous post, I marveled at the irony of a bookseller going into the software business Amazon Web Services, while some IT companies go into the book publishing businesses IBM Press. Now the bookseller-turned-IT-vendor has teamed up with the IT-vendor-turned-bookseller. In light of Amazon Web Services'...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-15
- IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded?
- IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded?The problem for Microsoft is that all of the margins go away in the cloud. At least the kind of margins that Microsoft has gotton used to. Microsoft is used to the 100 dollar per PC windfall, and the Office...
- Tags: Servers, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded?
- If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging. Amazon Web Services teamed up with IBM...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Who makes most rain from IBM-Amazon cloud deal? Oracle.
- Who makes most rain from IBM-Amazon cloud deal? Oracle.Total over-reactionWindows 7 is the black hole from which Google and IBM cannot escape. You do not need the cloud when Windows7 on netbooks, laptops, desktops and servers will bring you the ultimate computing experience. Microsoft's cloud application is SharePoint. As high...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Storage, Enterprise software, Amazon.com Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Who makes most rain from IBM-Amazon cloud deal? Oracle.
- It just goes to show how perplexing the gathering cloud marketplace is that the punditry are hesitant to meaningfully analyze this important development. But Amazon -- with a history of bold and long-term bets -- and IBM -- with a history of making markets whether it's right...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- IBM taps Amazon to further extend cloud offerings
- Just one day after IBM made several announcements related to a new cloud computing initiative, the company said it would offer software to clients and developers on Amazon Web Services under a "pay-as-you-go" model. In a release, the company said: Businesses today are looking for ways to quickly build,...
- Tags: Software, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- BriefingsDirect analysts handicap large IT vendors on how cloud trend impacts them
- We really are only beginning to understand how the IT services delivery, data management, and economic models of cloud computing will impact the market. If this shift is as large and inevitable as many of us think, the impact on the current IT business landscape will also be large. Some...
- Tags: Analytics, Information Technology, Environment, Dana Gardner, PaaS, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Emerging Technologies
- Blog posts 2008-12-14
- Where would YOU put YOUR money?
- Which of the following tech stocks would you invest your money in? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Stock, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., Investment, Finance, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
- Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...
- Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio -- is it destined for an Amazon or IBM cloud?
- Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio -- is it destined for an Amazon or IBM cloud?Uh...no thanks!I don't want my tools "in the cloud"! Plenty of times I am disconnected from the "cloud" and just want to work locally. Geez...kill the "aaS" already...it's becoming a PIT "aaS".another nail...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Java development tools, JBoss Developer Studio, aaS, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-10
- Red Hat unveils JBoss Developer Studio -- is it destined for an Amazon or IBM cloud?
- Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has finally released JBoss Developer Studio, an open-source Eclipse -based integrated development environment IDE that combines tooling with runtime. Red Hat released the beta version for free download on JBoss.org last August and said that the final subscription version would be available...
- Tags: IDE, Red Hat Inc., Environment, Amazon.com Inc., Tool, JBoss, IBM Corp., Development Environment, JBoss Developer Studio, Developer Studio, Open Source, Productivity, Development Tools, Java Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Amazon EC2 offers a shortcut to SaaS
- ISVs that want to deliver software-as-a-service have to learn a lot of new skills, not least how to build and operate a high-availability, shared-services data center infrastructure. Anyone who heard this month's keynote presentation at SIIA's OnDemand Summit by Amazon.com CTO Dr Werner Vogels will have a keen appreciation of...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Service, IBM Corp., Amazon EC2, Dr Werner Vogels, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Storage, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- IBM's 'Blue Cloud' signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
- I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool. There was talk of clicks and mortar, and how the mortar would always determine business outcomes. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Service, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Amazon, IBM settle patent lawsuit
- Amazon, IBM settle patent lawsuitIBM is usurping the patent officeIBM brags about the number of patents it files implying technical innovativeness. Granted that IBM does world-class research, but that is distinct from its patent primacy. The sheer number of patents its legal factory produces does not reflect a need...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Isaac Singer, IBM Corp., patent
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- IBM and Amazon--no way
- Redmonker James Governor argues that IBM is too risk averse, large-enterprise focused, and lacks a strong presence at the core of the Internet. His solution to IBMs apparent conservatism which is how the mainframe obsessed IBM missed out on the PC revolution at first is that the company should acquire...
- Tags: IBM, General, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Amazon hits back at IBM over patents
- Amazon hits back at IBM over patentsTransparent litigation ployFrom my dealings with Oracle, Amazon apparently has long used IBM's Websphere tools in building its Online foundation, in spite of using Oracle's DBMS. Of course I can not confirm that Amazon.com uses either Oracle or Websphere as tools. These are trade...
- Tags: irony, Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp., patent, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire Web
- Why IBM's patent suit against Amazon could be bad news for the entire WebI kind of wonder.Not that I really trust IBM but this does seem kind of out of character with their other behavior of late. Could this be IBM's way of trying to get the idea of...
- Tags: Patent Laws, Prognosticators, Web, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, IBM Corp., patent, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
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