IBM's Power-Based SmartClouds on the Horizon
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you have been waiting, like I have, for IBM to get Power-based infrastructure clouds to market, it looks like you are going to have to wait a little while longer but no later than the end of this year. The Global Technology Services division of Big Blue's Global Services giant, which accounts for more than half of the IT giants sales these days, fluffed up the Smart Business Cloud Enterprise last week, IBM's first true infrastructure cloud. READ MORE >

ITG Says IBM i + DB2 for i Still Offers Lowest TCO
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As The Four Hundred previously reported, a new vice president, Colin Parris, has taken the reins as business line manager for the Power Systems line of servers. And one of the things that IBM has done as Parris took control is have its stable of consultants who do price/performance and other kinds of analysis for Power Systems go out and update their reports to reflect the new Power7 iron and related operating systems that debuted last year. READ MORE >

COMMON: The Blues Play Well in Minneapolis
by Dan Burger

Are you Blue? I'm not talking about you nearly frozen survivors of the winter of 2010-11. I'm talking about the IBM Power Systems users who support Big Blue. The COMMON 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition is only three weeks away. It's almost time to pack the bags and head to Minneapolis, where last week COMMON president Pete Massiello told me there will be a lot of cool things going on. READ MORE >

As I See It: Shared Sacrifice
by Victor Rozek

Corporate facilities are nothing if not spacious. Whether they are housed in towering skyscrapers, or spread out in campus-style configurations, the space required to accommodate a global corporate headquarters can be measured in acres. What, then, can be made of the magical structure known as Ugland House? It may only be a modest four-story building but, with a little fiscal slight-of-hand, it can become home to a countless number of corporations. READ MORE >