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Thursday, July 10th, 2008Here’s the scenario: You are huge hardware/software vendor and you need to re-brand your traditional hardware, software, and professional services line. You go out and find a large gullible organization that has lot’s of cash and offer to sell them this new cloud thing. You tell them it is the latest […]
Tivoli Layoffs
Thursday, July 10th, 2008IBM lays off 150 workers, 30 in RTP
The workers were part of IBM Tivoli, a division that offers services such as storage, security and system management.
IBM Breaks the Metaverse Barrier
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Linden Labs and IBM Break the Metaverse Barrier, Teleport Across Virtual Worlds
Is it just me or has the metaverse thing cooled down a bit? Either way this does seem like a significant event. IBM has been working pretty hard for over a year to try to and create this concept of avatars that […]
Keeping it Real - IBM and PSI
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Here are some more links on the IBM PSI debacle…
IBM Buys Its Way Out of Antitrust Trouble
IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns
IBM Tightens Stranglehold Over Mainframe Market; Gets Hit with Antitrust Complaint in Europe
IBM v Tata
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008This should be interesting. It looks like Citigroup Global Services might be shopping around for a provider and IBM and Tata are on the list.
Citigroup entertaining IBM and others to run its BPO in India
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Sue ‘Em, Then Join ‘Em?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Once there was a little startup that figured out how to run IBM’s Z/OS on Itanium-based servers. In fact the founders of this startup had been doing this sort of thing forever since they were ex Ahmdahl guys. At first IBM didn’t mind this little startup selling their low end mainframes until […]
Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]
Boxers or Briefs?
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Evil Genius of BMC (a.k.a. Marty McFly) called out Google yesterday on Twitter regarding their basic systems management principals and bad systems management practices. Not soon after the Evil Genius’ tweet, Heath Newburn from IBM Tivoli posted a quick tweet response. I’ll have to admit sometimes we “enterprise” boys […]
First Al Gore and Now IBM Created Linux!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008If you wanted to pin down the day on which GNU/Linux became a respectable option for business, you’d be hard put to find a better candidate than 10 January, 2000. For it was on that date that IBM announced it intended “to make all of its server platforms Linux-friendly”…
So says this blogger …
Is Everyone an aaS?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors […]
The Cloud Version of the Tortoise and the Hare
Friday, June 20th, 2008IBM v Everyone Else…
Although I mostly agree that a lot of the IBM cloud talk is cloudy at best, they are making some obvious strides. The IBM Blue Cloud is not really well defined however, it is a glued together structure of blade servers and IBM Tivoli provisioning and monitoring software. However, in the end […]
Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer…
We are thinking of looking at that Open Source vendor you are always talking about for some of our servers.
Then I ask them which one and they say jeez I can’t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the […]
IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008IBM breaks the petaflop barrier
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world’s previous fastest computer, Blue Gene.
Off Topic - Thoughts on ITM 6.2 FP1
Friday, May 30th, 2008I am just completing an ITM 6.2 workshop today in Germany and we decided to use FP1 for the class exercises. I love doing this kind of training because I can get the students to try out a lot of the new features that I don’t have time to get to. Here are some initial […]
Tivoli Monitoring for Green Energy
Thursday, May 29th, 2008One of the first signs of concern of a new ‘Product’ offering is when the only documentation you can find on the product are white papers (w/no screen shots).
Oh well …
Tivoli Monitoring for Green Energy
UPDATE…
Me and my big yap… Heath Newburn spanked me good on this one…
Looks Like Someone Believes in MRO
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008OAK BROOK, Ill., May 27 /PRNewswire/ — Oak Brook-based generationE
Technologies, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Service
Assurance solutions, recently announced a definitive agreement to divest its
BMC Remedy division to TuringSMI Group Limited, as part of its final step in
moving to become an end-to-end IBM Tivoli solution provider.
Looks like generationE is betting the bank […]
Coté Reviews Pulse
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008IBM Tivoli Pulse Wrap-up - Product Updates, Green Metrics, and Cloud Confusion
Move Over Henry … Says Al
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008In his keynote address to more than 4,000 IBM clients, business partners and employees, IBM Tivoli Software General Manager Al Zollar detailed how, much like the assembly line and automation transformed the automobile and telecommunications industries over the past century, IT operations are ripe for industrialization.
IBM Declares New Era for IT Industrialization at Pulse 2008
Google and IBM - Keeping it Real
Monday, May 19th, 2008If you have been listening lately you would think that IBM and Google have been recently married. However, I would like to ask some simple questions…
How many Mainframes does Google have?
How many copies of AIX are running in those 1 million core Google data centers?
Does Google run Tivoli Provisioning Manager to provision their 1 […]
Catching Up on Cloud: An Interview with IBM
Monday, May 19th, 2008Catching Up on Cloud: An Interview with IBM
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