http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bnsindex.html Breaking News. en-us 2010 Guild Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved January 25, 2010 IT Jungle IT Jungle http://www.itjungle/com/bns/bns-rss.html 20 http://www.itjungle.com/images/break/title_break.gif http://www.itjungle/com/bns/bns-rss.html 275 50 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012510-story01.html Monday's update to Kaspersky's anti-virus software is falsely issuing a Trojan warning on all Web sites using Google AdSense. Google AdSense is widely used on publishing Web sites, including IT Jungle, to display ad content. Kaspersky users visiting sites in the Google ad syndication network are being incorrectly warned those sites are infected with a malicious Trojan-linked JavaScript. This issue is affecting sites throughout the Internet. IT Jungle is aware of the problem, and we have thoroughly checked our site and found no issues. Kaspersky users who get a Trojan warning when visiting the IT Jungle site can rest assured we do not have a Trojan on our site, and the warning is due to the error in the Kaspersky anti-virus software. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012510-story01.html January 25, 2010 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012010-story01.html Well, some of the mystery behind IBM's forthcoming and, as we now know impending, Power7-based Power Systems server launch has been solved. I said some of the mystery, so don't get overly excited. As best as I can figure, I will still have some time to go through my hypothetical System iWant, 2010 Edition, product line before Big Blue actually gets the Power7 machines launched. But it also looks like I had better hurry. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012010-story01.html January 20, 2010 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012010-story02.html IBM may no longer be the top provider of IT products and services in terms of annual revenues, but it is by far more profitable than its larger rival, Hewlett-Packard, which became king of the IT hill last year with $114.6 billion in sales (in fiscal 2009 ended in October) but which, at $7.7 billion in net income, only brings a little more than half of what IBM does to the bottom line. In IBM's full 2009 year, the company had sales of $95.8 billion, down 7.6 percent, but net income was up 8.8 percent to $13.4 billion. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012010-story02.html January 20, 2010 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101909-story01.html A statement of general direction is a fine tonic for IBM Power Systems i users, some of which are confused about IBM's intentions with the platform. Last week, Ian Jarman, manager of Power Systems software and keynote speaker at the RPG and DB2 Summit gave i-centric attendees a glimpse of the future. Knowing his crowd well, he highlighted RPG and DB2 enhancements in the pipeline and explained Power Systems positioning with the benefits that lie ahead for those thirsty for IBM attention on i. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns101909-story01.html October 19, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072409-story01.html Server virtualization might solve a whole bunch of issues, but it creates a whole bunch of others. Seeing that its systems customers are struggling with multiple and incompatible server virtualization hypervisors and management tools for making use of them, even on IBM's own Power Systems, System z, and System x product lines, Big Blue has decided that it has the answer to making all of these virtual machines and logical partitions behave themselves, which, not coincidentally, is giving it some leverage in the server market and some cash for its coffers, too. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072409-story01.html July 24, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072109-story01.html With the global economy still faltering and its biggest i, AIX, and Linux shops putting the brakes on spending not only just because the economy is bad but also because they are starting to think about the future Power7 chips and what they may have to offer, IBM has to do something if it wants to keep Power Systems sales from crashing. In fact, it needs to do two things, and today, the company did both of them. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns072109-story01.html July 21, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns051909-story01.html After close to two years of development and preliminary marketing in India, IBM's Smart Cube application appliances go on sale today in its home market in the United States, moving one step closer to a worldwide launch. The Smart Cube appliances, which we have been watching closely since Big Blue first started talking about them a year ago, come in Power-i and X64-Linux flavors and are designed to tap into the Smart Market, a clearinghouse for systems and application software aimed at small and medium businesses. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns051909-story01.html May 19, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042209-story01.html IBM's Power Systems division, which sells what were formerly known as System i and System p servers and which are simply called Power Systems these days, was a relative bright spot among its various server lines in the company's financial report for the first quarter of 2009. But even the popularity of IBM's high-end Power boxes could not defy the same pressures that all of IBM's other groups are feeling thanks to the economic meltdown. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042209-story01.html April 22, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042209-story02.html Well, the drama between IBM and systems rival Sun Microsystems is over, now that database and application software giant Oracle is ponying up $5.6 billion in cash and debt to acquire Sun. Or, perhaps, it is just beginning, and perhaps Oracle has seen the light and will be creating a little something midrange folk know as the Application System, 400 Not Included, slash reserved for competitive battles in the marketplace. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns042209-story02.html April 22, 2009 http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012109-story01.html Wall Street got a chance to catch its breath a little yesterday after the market closed when IBM announced its financial results for the fourth quarter, a quarter that was impacted by the economic crisis last summer and fall but one in which Big Blue nonetheless was able to pull out of the fire profit-wise by cutting costs. More importantly, perhaps, IBM's top brass reaffirmed that they were on track, despite the state of the global economy, to meet aggressive profit targets. http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns012109-story01.html January 21, 2009