Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
IBM plans to acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion in cash — a deal that Big Blue is betting will augment its capabilities in software integration and other key areas. “The addition of Sterling to IBM will substantially advance our ability to help clients to create more agile business networks,” Craig Hayman, general…
Open source vendor Red Hat is betting on a year-old open source effort that it hopes will further open up the Cloud. Red Hat’s deltaCloud project http://deltacloud.org/ started last year as a way of enabling and managing a heterogeneous Cloud virtualized infrastructure. Now, deltaCloud is on a path to commercialization as part of a set…
10 years ago, IBM had a single mission for Linux: Make it better. Now in 2010, IBM (NYSE:IBM) has a decade of experience in working to do just that, and is sharing its knowledge about how companies and developers can better participate in the Linux community. Speaking in a keynote session at the Linux Foundation’s…
IBM is rolling out a new combined hardware and software offering for major enterprise customers like banks, utility companies and brokerage firms that have a serious interest in ramping up their business analytics horsepower — and who are already running their applications in either x86 or mainframe computing environments. Based on IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Power7…
IBM executive Bob Sutor had a message for attendees at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco last week: “Ask the hard questions.” Sutor, despite himself being an open source software enthusiast (his full title is vice president of Open Source and Linux in IBM’s Software group) said, compared to traditional software vendors,…
After what can only be described as a desolate merger and acquisition landscape throughout most of 2009, a new study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts an upswing in both the volume and value of deals this year. And mergers and acquisitions in the high-tech sector will be leading the charge. According to the US technology M&A…
IBM has rolled out improvements to its IBM Cognos financial analysis applications that it said will help customers keep pace with the lightning-quick macroeconomic events that impact their annual budget and sales projections. The upgrades, released Tuesday for its IBM Cognos TM1 in-memory analysis tool, add support for unlimited, dynamic hierarchies allows for greater flexibility…
There is no doubt that evaluating and implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can be an intimidating and overwhelming process. When I first started to work with SOA standards, my first task―understanding what standards are out there―produced a daunting reading list. After plowing through several lengthy standards, I starting looking for the “Cliff Notes” versions! I…
In case you missed these past few years, the job of the CIO has been morphing from top technical propeller head to a that of true corporate leader. Beginning with the dot-com era and continuing through today, the job has arguably changed more rapidly than any other in corporate America. Once just an order taker,…
Oracle and Sun Microsystems are poised to tie the knot after Oracle this morning said it’s making a $9.50 per share offer in cash for the embattled server and Java player. The total price of the deal will be approximately $7.4 billion, but since Sun brings $1.8 billion of net cash to the deal, the…