by Maureen O’Gara IBM System z CTO and resident spook Mark Anzani recently sent an IBM mainframe customer a letter meant to scare it into seeing the boogeyman under its bed and make sure it doesn’t use Neon Enterprise Software’s zPrime technology to reduce its mainframe costs. The customer wants to buy IBM’s Specialty Engines [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara 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 “M” in BMC, who has reportedly poured a [...]
IBM Goes after Gmail In a fit of Google-envy, IBM Monday went into competition with Gmail, pitching businesses big and small on LotusLive iNotes, a new cloud-based hybrid e-mail service that starts at three buck a head a month. It claims its cloud-mail is secure and reliable – Gmail has had some problems lately staying [...]
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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, an admitted open source advocate, [...]
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Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal. Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in an ad on the front [...]
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Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop. The ingredients this time consist of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges’ Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE) 2.0 larded with IBM’s own Smart Client desktop software otherwise [...]
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Figuring that the cloud may be the “most significant shift in technology since the outset of the Internet,” IBM is moving to ensure it gets its piece of what could be a $66 billion business in three years. It’s taking a workload-by-workload approach. To start, it’s targeting the enterprise – meaning big, largely Blue accounts [...]
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Tukwila, the next Itanium chip – which once upon a time was supposed to be out in, oh, let’s see, 2006/2007, and was just delayed this past February until some time around the middle of this year – has been delayed yet again, this time until the first quarter of 2010. Intel is mumbling something [...]
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Ah, the great chessboard of life. So figure Oracle’s possession of Sun and its attendant resources like, oh, MySQL and Java is a potential threat to IBM. So what does IBM turn around and do? Well, it plays a card it’s been holding in its hand for the last year – EnterpriseDB – which if [...]
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The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They’re slow, underutilized, don’t scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they’re multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-level mapping, caching, replication/recovery and load balancing. Eighteen months [...]
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