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« Previous EntriesIBM Buying Sun Challenges
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009This morning I woke up to a flurry of tweets regarding the WSJ announcement of IBM buying Sun for $6.5 billion. As I followed many of the tweets regarding this mega-deal I started picking up some of the interesting challenges the two companies might face. Here is a list of what I have so far [...]
Into Thin Air
Saturday, February 21st, 2009My IBM Pulse 2009 article has been published by SearchServerVirtualization.
IBM Blue Cloud: More than thin air
SAP says HP consultants cool and IBM not so much
Sunday, February 8th, 2009SAP: HP Consultants Know What They’re Doing, IBM And Accenture Don’t (SAP, HPQ)
Say it Ain’t Soa
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009So Burton and Gartner have declaierd SOA dead. Here is mi latest twit thread on this topic…
What’s a Smarter Planet
Thursday, November 20th, 2008(and what does that have to do with technology?)
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Showdown While Staring into the Abyss
Friday, November 14th, 2008I guess we will all get a little bit of legal education on this one…
Papermaster also claims that the agreement is invalid because it’s meant to apply to work performed in New York State. Papermaster was employed at IBM facilities in Texas and is moving to a California-based company. “Both states hold that such noncompetition [...]
Is Blue the new Grey?
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008There seems to be some gray area between what some folks are doing in the cloud and what IBM is doing. IBM appears to be throwing a lot of blue placeholders all over the place in attempt to stop their customers from going elsewhere. Here are some examples…
Blue Cloud – Where is this [...]
IBM v Apple in the Law-o-Sphere
Saturday, November 8th, 2008It looks like the “non-compete” is not enforceable myth is being played out.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 5 (Reuters) – A U.S. District Court judge in New York ordered a newly hired Apple Inc . executive to stop work immediately because he might be violating an agreement with his former employer, IBM
I have been following this [...]
IBM v Apple – The Ironic Twist
Friday, November 7th, 2008I can’t help it, I get caught up in these kinds of stories. I guess it’s because I have wasted so much money on bad legal advice over the years and have been forced into a “Do it yourself lawyer” many times. Ok, by now most people have heard of Mr. [...]
Non-Compete Agreements and the Abyss
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008With all the hoopala regarding the recent IBM/Apple spat over Mark Pappermater’s non compete, I thought I might add to my “Abyss” series of blogs.
You could say I earned my law degree on the street. I always joke that I paid 50k for my “law degree” the year I left my first startup. [...]
IBM MapReduce Tools for Eclipse
Friday, October 17th, 2008IBM MapReduce Tools for Eclipse
IBM Launches Cloud Services Initiative
Monday, October 6th, 2008As usual the details are still a bit cloudy. Here is the announcement. Ok, what was the “Blue Cloud” announced last year? Is this the delivery of “Blue Cloud” or was that just a stop gap. After a quick glance it looks like provisioning on steroids using the Tivoli portfolio. That’s not a bad thing [...]
What’s really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
Friday, October 3rd, 2008What’s really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
Take a 16 Node Windows HPC Server Test Drive for $99
Monday, September 22nd, 2008IBM® Computing on Demand
IBM Rainmaker
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 monkchips IBM Rainmaker- “an ops person creating compute clouds in the enterprise”… a series of technologies to help efficiency in the data center about 1 hour ago from web
James Governor of Redmonk is giving some awesome tweets from the Energy Camp NYC/Interop
New IBM First to Process 1 Million Transactions per Minute
Monday, September 15th, 2008New IBM System Is First to Process 1 Million Transactions per Minute
IBM’s new servers running Intel’s six-core processors recently topped four benchmarks, including:
The first single x86 server to burst through the 1 million transactions per minute barrier on a TPC-C benchmark. This was achieved with an 8-socket System x server running 64-bit IBM DB2 9.5 [...]
IBM ITSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008IBM ITSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Providing Free “IBM Redbooks®
ITSO started in 1968
Over 4,800 Redbooks
1600 people
I have authored six IBM Redbooks and I have always enjoyed working with them.
Blue Waters
Monday, September 8th, 2008IBM plans first scientific petabyte computer
It will go live by 2011 and will use more than 200,000 processor cores, more than a petabyte of memory and more than 10 petabytes of disk storage.
Filipino co-founder of Tivoli Systems dies of cancer
Friday, September 5th, 2008Filipino co-founder of Tivoli Systems dies of cancer
Big Iron anything but rusty at IBM
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Big Iron anything but rusty at IBM
IBM says revenue for its mainframe business rose 32% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, easily outpacing overall sales growth of 13%.
A big driver was February’s launch of IBM’s next-generation mainframe line, the z10, its first big upgrade since 2004.
