IBM expands its business process management (BPM) solutions with Blueworks Live and WebSphere Decision Server. – Technology giant IBM introduced software and cloud services designed
to help accelerate business processes, including Blueworks Live, a
cloud service with the ability to structure and automate ad hoc
processes in 90 seconds that businesses currently run over e-mail and
attachments. The solution …
PSS Atlas helps companies identify the legal duties they have and the value of the information they have, and tie that to where and how the data is managed. – IBM added some fresh intellectual
property and expertise in the growing e-discovery space on Oct. 13 by acquiring
PSS Systems, a privately held company
based in Mountain View, Calif.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PSS Systems’ Atlas software platform, designed for use by …
Two leading supporters of Java, Oracle and IBM, announced a partnership to collaborate on the OpenJDK open source implementation of Java. – Oracle and IBM announced plans to collaborate to
enable developers to build and innovate based on existing Java
investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation.
The two leading Java supporting companies
announced the collaboration on Oct. 11 in a news conference.
Specifically, the companie…
A recent survey conducted by IBM developerWorks showed that developers believe mobile and cloud app development will dominate developers’ lives by 2015. – According
to a recent IBM survey, developers and other
IT professionals predict that mobile and cloud computing will emerge as the
most in-demand platforms for software application development and IT delivery
over the next five years.
The
2010 IBM Tech Trends Survey, conducted
online by IBM…
IBMs storage capabilities come from home-grown technologies, as well as from acquisitions and input from other IBM groups such as Research and Software and from partners. – NEW YORK – IBM will continue to grow its storage capabilities with a combination of internal growth, acquisitions and partnering in light of emerging competition in the storage space, a high-ranking IBM official said.
At an IBM event to announce new storage systems here, Rod Adkins, senior vice pre…
At an event in New York, IBM announced a range of new storage systems, including the Storwize V7000 that brings high-end features to midrange systems. – NEW YORK – IBM announced a series of new storage systems aimed at helping customers, particularly midrange customers, speed the delivery of data for new workloads that arise with the continued explosion of data as the world becomes more and more instrumented.
At an event at the posh Plaza Hotel he…
1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
IBM already had a business selling calculating machines, and it was humming along quite nicely. The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch, which IBM introduced in 1948, was a desk-sized cabinet that ate and spat out punch cards in its single-minded mission [...]
IBM is about to hold its sixth annual “Master the Mainframe” competition, where high school and college students learn mainframe skills and IT expertise as they compete for prizes. The competition is an effort by IBM to help groom a new generation of mainframe and enterprise IT workers. – IBM has announced its sixth annual quot;Master the Mainframe quot; competition, a competition aimed at helping to familiarize students with large systems and other concepts for the enterprise computing industry.
As the name indicates, the competition is largely focused on large enterprise systems,…
IBM is buying Blade Network Technologies to boost the cloud enterprise networking capabilities of its servers and better compete with the likes of HP, Oracle and Cisco in the converged data center space. – IBM is buying Blade Network Technologies in a move that gives it greater networking and cloud capabilities and more ammunition as it competes with the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems in the burgeoning converged data center space.
IBM officials announced Sept. 27 that the company intends …
The three IBM Analytics Solution Centers, in Zurich, Budapest and Vienna, will focus on financial services, green technology and Smarter Cities. – IBM opened three new analytics centers in
Europe on Sept. 23, strengthening its offerings in the
growing business analytics market.
The announcement follows just days after IBM’s
$1.7 billion acquisition of Marlborough, Mass.-based Netezza, a data
warehousing and analytics appliance vendor. La…
IBM scientists can now measure how long information can stay in an individual atom, getting one step closer to the goal of computing at the atomic level. – As the computer industry continues chasing Moores Law and components continue to shrink, the march continues to the inevitable end point: the atom. IBM researchers say they now have made a significant breakthrough that brings the industry a step closer to that end point.
In an article that will be …
IBM is rolling out new Power7 Express servers for smaller enterprises and cost-conscious businesses. – IBM is rolling out a new line of
entry-level servers based on Power7 processors that are designed for small
enterprises and businesses with IT budget constraints. IBM
announced the Power7 710, 720, 730 and 740 Express servers on Sept. 22.
These four new IBM servers are based on
the Power7
chip…
The GA invited software makers to submit their bids to become its new e-mail collaboration application provider. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all battling for the bid. Who will win? – Google, Microsoft and IBM have an important deadline
coming up in their heated war for cloud computing contracts.
The General Services Administration July 30 invited
software makers to submit their bids to become the federal agency’s e-mail
and collaboration application provider. The deadline to…
IBM has set its sights on Netezza in a deal worth roughly $1.7 billion. – IBM has agreed to acquire data warehousing firm Netezza for approximately $1.7 billion.
The acquisition, which is subject to Netezza shareholder approval, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2010. Netezza specializes in data warehouse analytics, and competes in the space with companies su…
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano tells the WSJ that Hurd hurt HP by cutting its R&D budget, and that its Hurds new employer, Oracle, that will be IBMs biggest challenge. – IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is keeping his eye more on Oracle now than Hewlett-Packard.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano said that during former CEO Mark Hurds five-year tenure, HP was hurt by sharp cuts in its R amp;D budget, and that the company was declining in relevance.
He sa…
IBM has agreed to acquire OpenPages, which designs risk-management and compliance software, as part of its attempts to build out its business analytics portfolio. – IBM has agreed to acquire OpenPages, a company whose
products identify and administer risk and compliance activities via a single
management system. The acquisition will increase IBMs business analytics
portfolio, allowing it to support compliance and risk-management processes.
Financial terms o…
Robert Moffat, who spent 31 years with IBM, now faces six months in prison after admitting to giving out inside information about IBM, Lenovo and AMD. – Ex-IBM executive Robert Moffat on Sept.
13 was sentenced to six months in prison for his role in a massive $25 million
insider trading scandal.
Moffat, who had spent 31 years with the technology giant and
was senior vice president and group executive of IBM’s
$20 billion Systems and Technology …
IBM announced a new financing program, including credit from IBM for used equipment, to HP and Oracle hardware customers. – In an attempt to cash in on momentum the company
has seen in relation to its competitors, IBM has announced a new
financing program, including credit from IBM for used equipment,
attractive lease terms and no payments until 2011, for customers who
move from Oracle-Sun and HP systems.
Under this…
IBM has had a long-term relationship with the US Open tennis tournament, providing all the IT services, hardware and software to run the operation. In addition, IBM has been a long-time partner of the USTA (U.S. Tennis Association) and Big Blue handles all the IT operations behind the US Open and many other Grand Slam tennis events. At a press event hosted by IBM at the US Open at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, N.Y., on Aug. 31, Gordon Smith, the executive director and chief operating officer of the USTA, said, “IBM has been a USTA partner for 18 years. We’ve got the best technology partner on the planet, bar none. We can’t even begin to use the capacity IBM has provided us.” And given the elasticity afforded by cloud computing, Smith is right in so many ways, as IBM is bringing its cloud capability to the US Open operation. This eWEEK photo gallery takes an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at IBM’s operations, which help make the US Open a smashing success. eWEEK also looks at how cloud computing is now expanding beyond the enterprise data center. – …
In Yorktown Heights, N.Y., IBM has built a mock set of the popular game show "Jeopardy" to a test a new type of supercomputer called "Watson." Watson is based on the same type of technology as Big Blue’s other Blue Gene supercomputers and uses natural language technologies. Right now, Watson is the most visible of several research projects under way at IBM’s two upstate New York research facilities named after T.J. Watson. About a 15-minute drive from Yorktown Heights, IBM has another research facility in Hawthorne to showcase the company’s inventions and innovations from the 1950s through present day. The two facilities are also home to IBM’s analytics research division, which is using mathematics and complex algorithms to solve problems facing governments, businesses and scientific research. Here, eWEEK takes a tour of both of the IBM research facilities, where projects range from solving railroads issues to health care advances to how retail companies can better serve customers in their stores. – …
