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IBM Announces New Flex Systems for Cloud Including Double-Density Server
IBM today has announced several major additions to its Flex System portfolio designed to support private and public cloud environments both for end-users and MSPs creating their own SaaS and IaaS services for their clients. The new systems include both IBM POWER7+ platforms and a “double dense” x222 system built on x86 technology that, says ...
IBM Brings Mainframe to the Midrange with zEnterprise BC12 Announcement
With more than 200 new Enterprise clients running on the System z mainframes three years after its 2Q10 introduction, IBM has shown that mainframe systems are not going anywhere soon. Now it is bringing mainframe systems to the mid-market with the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12), a new “business class” version of System z announced last week. With ...
CIOs Need to Eliminate Baggage, Focus on Business Needs
Three major trends emerged from the annual MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium in mid-July, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe in “CIOs Need to Understand Three Critical Takeaways from Big Data CDOIQ Symposium“. And the news is not all good for the future of CIOs. The first two ...
Flash-Aware Applications Take Step toward Reality with Fusion-io Announcements
Fusion-io has added atomic writes, eliminating the problem of partial writes and the need to use technologies such as the double-write buffer in MySQL, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Road to Flash-aware and Flash Optimized Applications“. It has also donated a flash-aware demand paging extension to allow flash as a target for demand ...
IBM-Pivotal Alliance All About AWS #IBMPivotal
Tuesday’s joint announcement of a close partnership between IBM and Pivotal left questions unanswered. Specifically, why is IBM making this very public investment in a relationship with a subsidiary of EMC, one of its major competitors in storage? For Pivotal this is definitely a big win. It endorses Cloud Foundry to IBM’s 9,000 Cloud customers and ...
IBM, Pivotal Announce Alliance on Cloud Foundry #IBMPivotal
IBM and EMC spin-off Pivotal this morning announced an alliance to develop the Cloud Foundry platform and open source project. They also announced that they will collaborate on the technology that enables programming languages or frameworks to be deployed on the Cloud Foundry platform. IBM is already previewing WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core, a lightweight ...
IT Technology Revolution: Will Your Company Survive
In the first part of this analysis (IT Faces Revolutionary Change, Who Will Survive) I outlined the massive impact of a series of technology-driven forces transforming the IT industry. These include Open Source, Big Data, hyperscale systems, flash storage, converged systems, software-defined infrastructure, public cloud services, and mobile computing. Together these are reshaping our lives ...
IBM Announces New zEnterprise Mainframe
IBM this morning announced a new model it its zEnterprise mainframe series, the zBC12, designed to support analytics, cloud, and mobile computing in a highly secure environment. An upgrade of the z114, it features a 4.2 GHz processor and twice the available memory of its predecessor. With a starting price of $75,000 for the low-end ...
IBM’s Ambuj Goyal Declares War in Storage #Edge
Six months after taking leadership of IBM Storage, Ambuj Goyal has declared war on his competitors. “The IT industry is at two major inflection points,” he told SiliconAngle in an exclusive interview at IBM Edge 2013. “I have nothing to lose.” The inflection points are flash and software-defined storage (SDS) based on open systems, and ...
Is the NSA Spying on Your Business? Time to Demand Answers
It is time for American businesses, particularly those in IT, as well as citizens, to demand specific answers about just how much information the NSA is collecting under Prism, where they are getting it, and what uses they are putting it to, writes Wikibon Analyst, Consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe. The latest allegations stemming from ...