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Products of the 'Noughties': 2000-2004 review
Reviews When IBM announced the 1GB Microdrive in June everybody wanted one, even at $500 — remember, this was long before the advent of affordable Flash storage on USB sticks. IBM's 1in. It was supposed to begin with the widespread collapse of all manner...
[December 23, 2009, 13:18]
IBM buys BPM software provider Lombardi
News Its customers will be able to continue using their existing IBM and Lombardi systems without needing to replace any technology, IBM said. IBM has signed a deal to acquire software company Lombardi, which makes tools for automating business...
[December 18, 2009, 11:08]
Dell expands unified datacentre lineup
News Dell is competing with the likes of Cisco, HP and IBM, which are offering systems that combine servers, storage, networking and management software, with the aim of making datacentres easier and cheaper to set up and manage.
[December 14, 2009, 14:26]
Unlock key strategies for successful systems development
White Papers Program Director, IBM Rational, this Webcast will look at: A study of systems development organization undertaken by MWD Advisors. The dynamics, trends and practices that characterize the systems development arena; The challenges faced by systems...
[December 10, 2009, 23:00]
Smarter Systems Development: A System Engineering Trade Study to support Green Initiatives with Model Driven Development
White Papers Using a model-driven approach with IBM Rational Rhapsody software, you can determine which solution will best capture stakeholder requirements while also justifying your engineering decisions Trade studies help us fully explore the design space to...
[December 10, 2009, 23:00]
IBM launches Tivoli Live Monitoring Services
News IBM announced on Tuesday that its Tivoli Live Monitoring Services, a cloud computer offering designed to better monitor infrastructure, is now available. The Tivoli effort will reside on IBM's cloud platform.
[December 8, 2009, 11:45]
IDC: Enterprise storage shows signs of rebound
News It was followed by IBM with 13.2 percent share, according to IDC. EMC led the storage software market for the quarter with a 23.4 percent share of revenues, while Symantec followed with an 17.8 share, and IBM took 12.2 percent.
[December 7, 2009, 15:21]
IBM cuts ribbon on portable datacentre
News IBM has become the latest vendor to begin offering a complete datacentre packed inside an industry-standard shipping container, following in the footsteps of Sun, Rackable and others. On Wednesday, at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas...
[December 3, 2009, 13:16]
IBM buys database security start-up Guardium
News IBM has acquired Guardium, a maker of tools for monitoring and securing sensitive databases, with the aim of helping administrators deal with growing compliance and security pressures. Guardium's products have two parallel functions, IBM said on...
[December 1, 2009, 15:18]
System Center Essentials 2010 Beta 1 review
Reviews Naturally, they look for tools to automate and simplify their IT tasks, but packages such as CA Unicenter, IBM Tivoli and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)/Configuration Manager (SCCM) are enterprise-level applications requiring...
[December 1, 2009, 9:18]
HostBridge and IBM Products Provide Foundation for Development of a New Web-Based Call Center Application at Navy Federal Credit Union
White Papers HostBridge Technology meets clients' CICS integration needs by providing access to applications and data residing on IBM mainframes, using industry standards like HTTP and XML documents, thus easing the integration of legacy systems with emerging...
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
Relationship With IBM Generates Nearly USD$5M in Revenue From Four New Deals for Serbian IBM Business Partner Arius
White Papers Arius a.d.an Advanced IBM Business Partner, specializes in developing software solutions that focus on system integration for card payment systems and Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point Of Sale (EFT/POS).
[November 27, 2009, 23:00]
Global stock exchanges enter ‘technology arms race’
Blog Unsurprisingly perhaps, IBM’s low-latency messaging and analytics technologies are of major use in this sector - and many of these new super fast systems are running Linux. I tend to shy away from customer stories with all the revulsion I normally...
[November 27, 2009, 7:41]
Government starts building ID card database
News The main contractor for NBIS is IBM, which subcontracts to Atos Origin and Sagem Sécurité. Technology firm CSC has a contract to upgrade UK passport application systems. The database behind the national identity card scheme is up and running, with...
[November 25, 2009, 13:34]
See Through Your Systems Complexity
White Papers IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a powerful solution designed to consolidate and simplify systems monitoring and management across complex, distributed environments. High Level Overview of IBM Tivoli Monitoring
[November 17, 2009, 7:38]
AMD takes top three places in supercomputer list
News Although AMD provided the processors for the fastest systems in the Top500 list, 80.4 percent of the systems in the list used Intel processors.percent used IBM Power processors, and 8.4 percent used AMD Opteron processors.
[November 16, 2009, 14:46]
Ten tips for software licensing in a virtual world
Comment Some software houses, notably Oracle subsidiary BEA Systems, have abandoned per-socket licensing for at least one product, while others such as IBM have come up with halfway-house answers, such as sub-capacity licensing, where the amount you pay...
[November 16, 2009, 11:13]
IBM unveils private business analytics cloud
News The system is built using Cognos, IBM's business intelligence software, and hardware systems such as System Z, the company's mainframe. IBM on Monday will launch Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte...
[November 16, 2009, 7:30]
Cisco expands collaboration tools for the enterprise
News The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which itself used to be known as Jabber, provides federation of presence — the ability to know whether a contact is online or offline, and what type of device they are connected on — across...
[November 9, 2009, 7:37]
V-Blocks - do they mean you're V-Locked in?
Blog And IBM has a cloud of products, but it's unclear as yet how well they fit into this new paradigm. EMC and Cisco have announced that they'll be selling aggregated systems that simply slot into your datacentre.
[November 6, 2009, 11:30]
