Hosted service a way of addressing users without having to build infrastructure
Lotus Connections is "the fastest-growing software in IBM history when it comes to market adoption," said an IBM social software strategist on board the Lotus Bus. IBM discussed iNotes, Symphony, security and boundary workers during its stop in Toronto.
Big Blue is prepping pay-as-you-go infrastructure as well as full-lifecycle services for private clouds
IBM on Thursday announced beta versions of new services aimed at developers who want to create and deploy applications on public and private clouds.
Robert Moffat gets ousted after being charged with insider trading
The IBM executive charged with
insider trading by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is out of a job at Big Blue.
Goodnight says he has seen "nothing really new" competitively since Big Blue bought analytics vendor SPSS
If SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight is feeling pressured by IBM's recent US$1.2 billion purchase of rival predictive analytics vendor SPSS, he's not showing it.
IBM ramps up business intelligence portfolio during its annual Information on Demand conference
IBM will announce a range of additions to its already-burgeoning portfolio of BI (business intelligence) tools on Monday during its annual Information on Demand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas.
Will efforts from Apple, IBM & Canonical impact Windows 7 sales? Some research suggests strong adoption on the business side
Apple and Linux advocate IBM both tried hard to cramp Microsoft's style this week before the Windows 7 rollout even got under way. On Tuesday, Apple launched a new iMac, MacBook, and Mac Mini line, while IBM joined with Linux distributor Canonical to introduce a new "cloud-and-Linux-based" offering called IBM Client for Smart Work.
Mainframe antitrust inquiry, insider trading charges add up to headaches for Big Blue
IBM's lawyers have a busy winter ahead of them as Big Blue attempts to fight off antitrust accusations related to its mainframe business and an IBM employee faces allegations of insider trading.
Rod Adkins will take Robert Moffat's place as the head of the company's Systems and Technology Group
IBM has placed Robert Moffat, the head of its Systems and Technology Group, on a leave of absence after he was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in an alleged insider-trading scheme.
IBM and Intel executive allegedly provided insider information to cause security trades
Executives from Intel Capital and IBM face insider trading charges after allegedly scheming to provide information that others used to reap millions of dollars in illegal profits, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
Executives said company plans to ship a new mainframe and the Power7 chip
IBM disclosed the plans at a time when server sales among all vendors have taken a bruising during the economic downturn, and IBM is no exception. In a third quarter earnings call yesterday, said Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer, said that the company's third quarter mainframe revenue declined by 26 per cent from the year-earlier period.
Market reacts cautiously as uncertainty about demand persists
With quarterly IT sales results pouring in, vendors including IBM, Google, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel appear more confident than ever that the global recession's depressing effects on the tech market are lifting.
Mainframe revenue dropped 26 percent year-over-year and IBM's Unix business was down 10 percent
Citing improved profit margins and a stabilizing IT spending environment, IBM revised its 2009 earnings estimates upward Thursday, even as the company's revenue dropped.
Flash storage can be integrated into the latest version of its SAN Volume Controller
IBM will add support for SSDs to version 5.0 of its SAN Volume Controller and is promising a big boost in performance with or without flash storage.
Unveils new clustering feature on eve of Oracle's OpenWorld user conference
On the eve of Oracle's OpenWorld user conference, IBM unveiled a new clustering feature that it says contends will help its flagship DB2 database trump Oracle's rival product on scalability, speed and price.
A slew of products are offered in the WebSphere Version 7 upgrade, with a focus on BPM, SOA, business strategy layers for IT
Looking to provide business agility, IBM is rolling out on Thursday a slew of products in the version 7 upgrade to its WebSphere middleware portfolio.