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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
By Audrey Rasmussen and Rich Ptak IBM’s latest release (February 28th) of Service Management Connect (SMC) captured our attention because of its potential for strengthening the relationship between IBM, its customers, partners and potential customers. It generated our interest and enthusiasm because it represents a significant advance by IBM towards an open product development process that directly [...]