It seems like just about every cloud computing discussion with a development audience results in the same question being asked: “Why does this matter to me?” As cloud computing first appears to be primarily an operational-centric paradigm, it is easy to understand the reason this is as...

Sun had a suitor other than IBM and Oracle. It says so in its proxy statement where it tells of its blow-by-blow adventures since November 6 when Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, thinly disguised in the account as Party A, approached Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about a takeover. Sometime b...

IBM is going to start selling a thing called WebSpan, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform, created by pushing its WebSphere integration software together with Hubspan’s on-demand integration platform and forming a single-instance, multi-tenant SaaS integration platf...

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Tony Carrato, Executive IT Architect of IBM, will be presenting at the upcoming SOA World Conference & Expo (www.soaworld2009.com) June 22-23, 2009, in New York City. His session will be entitled “Delivering on SOA Value.” Tony Carrato is an Executiv...

Hubspan and IBM have announced WebSpan, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform. WebSpan combines the Hubspan on–demand integration platform and IBM WebSphere integration software into a single platform that can help businesses reduce the cost, time and complexity assoc...

IBM has announced a broad portfolio of offerings designed to help midsize companies tap into the power of today's interconnected, instrumented and increasingly intelligent world. Leading the way are the new BladeCenter Express servers incorporating the latest IBM POWER6 microprocessors...

A broad range of application environments will benefit from Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand-connected IBM System Cluster solutions, including applications optimized for industrial design and manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, government and education. They are also an excelle...

IBM's comprehensive smarter work approach takes advantage of today's increasingly instrumented and interconnected world. By improving collaboration between people and transforming business processes that are critical to success, organizations can become more agile and responsive to rap...

iRise and Ascendant Technology (Atech) have announced the immediate availability of iRise for IBM WebSphere Commerce, a pre-configured set of visualization templates that gives businesses a way to visualize new e-Commerce applications based on IBM solutions. By visualizing before build...

SOA Software, a leading provider of unified governance automation products, announced today the availability of Service Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower. This product provides centralized policy definition and service monitoring for DataPower appliances, allowing customers to easily...

With today's announcement, IBM is empowering clients to consolidate and manage existing resources to realize the economic and technological advantages of increasingly popular private clouds. A primary benefit to customers who already have a SOA foundation is that cloud computing enable...

IBM announced new offerings today that will help WebSphere users to leverage both public and private clouds. Two new offerings, the WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition and the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, help users construct private WebSphere cloud environments. In addi...

Addressing the rapid pace of information technology transformation across all industries, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new social technology enhancements to developerWorks, to help software developers more easily work together on open standards-based innovations.

Channel Web reported today that Sandy Carter will take the helm at IBM as vice president of worldwide partner sales. Carter published three SOA articles on Ulitzer with more than 65,000 page views. Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Trav...

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...

As more data and code moves into the cloud, packaging and using those resources becomes more complex. Service Component Architecture (SCA), an open standard from OASIS, solves that problem in an elegant way. This session will use live demos to illustrate how to create an SCA service fr...

In this webcast from the IBM and Intel Virtual Conference Series, IBM discusses IBM System x and Intel and how to improve Datacenter ROI in 2009 with IBM High Performance Servers.

Take an exclusive look at IBM's latest innovations from IBM System x and BladeCenter. IT professionals in small and medium businesses, branch offices, and large enterprises will benefit by adopting IBM System x and BladeCenter's next-generation hardware portfolio. The discussion – led ...

In this webcast from the IBM & Intel Virtual Conference Series, learn how the HS22 offers outstanding performance, flexible configuration options and simple management in an efficient server designed to run a broad range of workloads and enable customers to lower TCO, increase control,...

IBM has gotten an eight-year cloud services contract from Kogakuin University in Japan to transform its back-office infrastructure to act more like the Internet, capable of accessing vast resource pools during periods of high volume like graduation and enrollment. The kickoff date is S...

After letting Sun go to Oracle, an outcome seen as a problem for IBM, Big Blue said its first quarter came up short on revenues. The total was $21.7 billion, down 11% against a consensus of $22.5 billion with earnings of $2.3 billion, off 1% year-over-year. Hardware revenue was off 23%...

Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and the monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise with enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and ...

This is a blog post about the importance of service elasticity in cloud computing.

VMware said Wednesday that it earned $69.9 million, 18 cents a share in Q1, up 64% on revenues up 7% to $470 million. On a non-GAAP basis before charges, the virtualization leader earned 25 cents a share, up 14%. Its non-GAAP operating income was also up 14% to $121 million.

In this Webinar, Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectu...

In case you missed it Oracle announced this morning that it will be acquiring Sun Microsystems. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion. This news means the technology landscape is about to radically change and quite possibly, Sun hardware is now dead. The software aspe...

Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it's been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it's had such a thing in min...

IBM is reportedly getting set to lay off “thousands” of staffers in the UK, Germany and Ireland and move the jobs to Eastern Europe, China, India and South America, according to an unconfirmed story in the Observer over the weekend. The British paper quoted Lee Conrad, the national coo...

Well, if rebuffing IBM's $7 billion offer as too low the weekend before last was a negotiating tactic then the gambit has blown up in Sun's face according CNBC. Following a Bloomberg story saying Sun wanted IBM to come back to the table - a story that made no mention of price - CNBC ru...

Trapped down a dark alley with nowhere else to go, Sun is ready to restart takeover talks with IBM provided IBM puts more starch in its commitment to actually close the deal despite whatever regulatory hurdles it has to vault, according to Bloomberg, which has it from two people "famil...

According to the latest numbers out of Gartner and IDC, HP has overtaken Dell in the US PC market for the first time since, gee, 2001. Dell lost the lead worldwide to HP in 2006. In Q1 Dell's US market share dropped to 26.3%, down 4.1%, while HP captured 27.6% of American shipments, up...

While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace ...

Deploying cloud resources requires a different legal analysis than using, or selling, traditional Internet infrastructure services. This session will focus on the interconnected nature, but nationless state, of cloud computing. Delegates will come away with: Five legal theories that wi...

EMC Tuesday rolled out a spanking new built-from-the-ground-up high-end storage architecture for the cloud and its federated kin, the virtual data center, a k a the internal cloud, widgetry that's been a couple of years in development. Dubbed the Virtual Matrix Architecture, it promise...

Tech Mahinda, an Indian outsourcing firm 31% owned by BT, has won the auction for 51% of the scandal-rocked Satyam Computer Services for a mere $580 million, not much for a company that was valued at $7 billion a year ago. Tech Mahinda offered $1.16 (58 rupees) a share, a 23% premium; ...

SAP and IBM have been showing off the live migration of SAP applications across remote IBM Power6 systems via the cloud, a bit of widgetry developed at IBM'S Research Lab in Haifa as part of the European Union-funded RESERVOIR cloud computing project. When workloads change, the technol...

The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They're slow, underutilized, don't scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they're multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-l...

IBM has got some cloud-based software that it will host on its own data centers that it calls a survival mechanism in this economy. Formally known as LotusLive Engage, it’s promising to be out by April 7. It includes integrated web-based file sharing, contact management, online meeting...

Rackable Systems, the large-scale server wannabe, said Wednesday that it's buying the now bankrupt SGI for roughly $25 million in cash plus the assumption of certain liabilities. The once-great SGI closed at 41 cents a share Tuesday with a market cap of $4.78 million.