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Collaboration tools central to business value of SaaS
One of the largest advantages offered by SaaS, IBM’s new SaaS study found, is the increase in collaboration it can support both inside an organization and outside, with its supply chain partners. IBM’s collaboration tools, on the IBM Connections platform, including a new, sophisticated e-mail system announced at IBM Connect 2014 last week, chat, meetings, ...
IBM survey shows close IT-LOB partnership produces maximum SaaS benefit
A newly released IBM global survey with 879 respondents shows that not only are companies of all sizes taking up SaaS, but that those with an overall cloud-computing strategy and a close partnership between IT and line-of-business (LOB) leaders get the maximum business advantage from the services they choose. While Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has gotten the ...
Is the x86 server ready for open source? #CIOAngle, #OCPSummit
This week theCUBE covered the Open Compute Project Summit (#OCPSummit). As the name implies, this conference is part of the open source movement, but with a twist. When most people hear “open source” they think software — Linux, OpenStack, KVM and other major open source projects. This conference is about open source hardware, and in ...
Microsoft rocks OCP, IO links OCP to OpenStack #OCPSummit
Microsoft rocked the cloud and hyperscale world when it joined the Open Compute Project at Open Compute Summit V on Tuesday, writes Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer in a recent article entitled “Microsoft Joins OCP and Contributes Cloud Management Software and APIs.” Microsoft contributed complete server and storage designs and donated the software code ...
IBM, Lenovo reassure System x customers of seamless transition
Following their joint announcement this morning that IBM was selling its entire System x line to Lenovo, executives from both companies participated in a media call focused on reassuring customers that the companies plan a close ongoing partnership and seamless transition. The announcement, which includes the transfer of all IBM x86 products to Lenovo, comes ...
IBM System x sale — brilliant move or strategic mistake
In a Breaking Analysis segment in theCube discussing the joint announcement by IBM and Lenovo of the $2.3 billion sale of System x today, Wikibon CEO David Vellante, CTO David Floyer, and Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman disagreed on the wisdom of the sale. IBM’s x86 business has been shrinking, with a double digit decrease ...
IBM charts its course as a cloud service provider #The CIO Angle
IBM kicked off the new year in dramatic fashion, setting its direction for 1014 and beyond last week with three dramatic announcements, including the commitment of more than $2 billion in funding, and that direction is directly into the heart of the Cloud. It started on January 9th when CEO Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty personally ...
IBM announces $1.2B cloud investment
In its third major announcement this week, IBM today announced a $1.2 billion investment in expansion of its global private cloud network including the construction of 15 more data centers, bringing the total to 40, and doubling the capacity of its SoftLayer platform and network, which connects the data centers and delivers IBM cloud services ...
IBM announces revolutionary System x generation with modular design, 12 TB flash on memory bus
IBM today announced a complete redesign of its System x x86 server family, featuring up to 12.8 Tbytes of NAND flash directly on the memory bus of the server and a modular design that allows users to upgrade the server by simply replacing plug-in “Compute Books”. This sixth generation of System x has six core ...
ServiceNow leaves IT service management giants scurrying to catch up
ServiceNow has overturned the IT service management (ITSM) market, leaving financial industry naysayers who shorted its stock scrambling, along with such traditional ISTM vendors as BCM Software, HP, CA and IBM, writes Wikibon Cofounder and CEO David Vellante in “ServiceNow: Redefining Enterprise IT Service Management”. It is expected to report annual revenue above $400M at ...