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IBM Impact 2013 – Scores again

By Rich Ptak ⋅ May 21, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By Rich Ptak IBM’s Impact 2013 event had over 8,500 registrants; add some 24,000 unique Livestream page views (first three days) and the level of sustained interest in the event is clear. A few weeks ago, IBM Pulse2013 focused on “Optimizing the World’s Infrastructure”. For Impact 2013, the theme, “Business. In Motion.” made clear that [...]

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator – an end-to-end success

By Rich Ptak ⋅ May 20, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By Rich Ptak IBM recently announced General Availability of IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator (SCO). This is the newest addition to the SmartCloud Foundation solution family of standards-based IT solutions for cloud-enabled data center environments, including private, public or hybrid implementation models. The family currently includes products that enable cloud environments with functions that range from monitoring [...]

CA World ’13 – Mainframes, DCIM, Innovation

By Rich Ptak ⋅ May 6, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

CA World ’13 in Las Vegas, included lots of insights, announcements and opportunities to interact with CA Technologies executives, SME’s, partners and, most importantly, customers. There was news in strategy, organization, products and the executive team, a fair amount that was the same and some significant insight into the thinking and operations of the new [...]

IBM Pulse 2013: The Strategy Beat Goes On

By Audrey Rasmussen ⋅ April 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By Audrey Rasmussen IBM’s Pulse 2013 user conference didn’t disappoint, with many new announcements, customer testimonials, executive keynotes and a wide variety of sessions to attend. Although the activities and information offered at Pulse 2013 were interesting in themselves, the most interesting aspect was seeing how IBM’s strategies and approaches are coalescing into an evolved [...]

Oracle announces the T5 microprocessor with extravagant claims

By Rich Ptak ⋅ April 3, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

By Bill Moran and Rich Ptak Oracle announced its latest microprocessor, the T5, in a press release[1] dated March 26. As a part of their announcement, Oracle released a videotape[2] featuring Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, and John Fowler[3], Executive VP of Systems, expounding on T5 performance and benefits. Let’s examine a few key claims. The [...]

Symantec 4.0: Symantec’s Strategy Revolution

By Audrey Rasmussen ⋅ March 26, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

The recent announcement of Symantec 4.0 by Symantec executives revealed not a new product but Symantec’s new corporate strategy. Characterized by Symantec as “a revolution”, Symantec 4.0 is much more than a marketing campaign. As described, it represents a broad reaching overhaul of Symantec as an operating enterprise. In our view, this is a much [...]

PULSE 2013 – Platforms, Interfaces and Messaging for One IBM

By Rich Ptak ⋅ March 20, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Pulse 2013 with presentations, demos and breakout sessions for 8000+ attendees provided IBM executives, subject matter experts and clients opportunities to share knowledge, insight and data about IBM’s plans, products and experiences in support of their industry leading position. The unifying theme was “Optimizing the World’s Infrastructure” and based on our time there and our [...]

IBM SmartCloud Foundation – Shines at IBM Pulse 2013

By Rich Ptak ⋅ March 4, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

At Pulse 2013, IBM is introducing enough new and enhanced solutions, services, programs and initiatives to satisfy even the most jaded of IT aficionados. Fundamental, far-reaching changes in how business consume and use IT apps and services are driving a radical shift in performance metrics and traditional processes for development, delivery and consumption of the [...]

Prelert’s IT Operational Analytics for Splunk

By Audrey Rasmussen ⋅ February 27, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

Most IT organizations are rich with operational data – collected from networks, servers, applications, storage, databases and more. However, a lot of this data sits unused because there’s simply too much of it to analyze. Just as difficult as finding the needle in the haystack, finding IT problems remains as a challenge for IT staffs. [...]

IBM: Providing a Community for Service Management Practitioners