Sundry Spring Power Systems Storage Enhancements
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Along with the April 28 Power6+ enhancements to the entry and midrange server lineup as well as the addition of solid state disks--finally--to the Power Systems lineup, IBM made a slew of storage announcements relating to the Power Systems lineup. In many ways, the announcements had more to do with storage than they did with processors, but this kind of got buried in the zillions of announcements that Big Blue tried to pack in its second Dynamic Infrastructure blitz. READ MORE >

IBM Wheels and Deals on Power 570s and 595s in Q2
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

There are only three marketing levers in the information technology business: technology, price, and FUD. Without a refresh for top-end Power Systems as part of the April 28 release of the product line, IBM needs to pull one of these three levers, and the technology lever is stuck along with Power6 and Power6+ clock speeds at 5 GHz, and fear, uncertainty, and doubt don't really work on your own customer base so much as someone else's. So that leaves price. READ MORE >

Micro Focus to Buy Borland, Compuware Unit for Testing Tools
by Alex Woodie

Micro Focus moved aggressively into the market for testing tools last week with the announcement that it plans to buy Borland Software and the application testing unit of Compuware for a combined $155 million. Micro Focus, which bought System i software developer NetManage a year ago, hopes the acquisitions will give it a good chunk of the fragmented market for testing tools. READ MORE >

As I See It: Ah, Vacation!
by Victor Rozek

The tiny specs on the massive Navajo-sandstone face are two men. They are hanging from absurdly long ropes, inching downward toward a spot a few hundred feet above the ground. The sun is merciless and they work quickly. One man begins boring a small hole in the sheer rock wall, while the other waits to insert a stick of dynamite. When he lights the long fuse, both men scramble up the ropes as high as they can before the explosion tears a portion of the wall away. READ MORE >