The Power of Software: One on One with Ian Jarman
by Alex Woodie

There are few executives in IBM's Power Systems laboratory in Rochester, Minnesota, with the experience and knowledge of Ian Jarman, who today holds the title of manager of Power Systems software. During the recent COMMON conference in Orlando, Florida, Jarman took some time out of his busy schedule to speak with IT Jungle on a wide range of topics. Here are some excerpts from that conversation. READ MORE >

Palmisano Says IBM Will Double Up Profits By 2015
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Around this time every year, the top brass at IBM take what I presume are their limousines and head south from Upstate New York and chi-chi Western Connecticut down to Wall Street to explain themselves to investors. Well, more precisely, the IBMers gather to talk to Wall Street analysts; the several hundred people on the globe that influence a stock as much as (and perhaps more than) the Brownian investment motions of millions of shareholders sweating their 401(k) retirement funds. READ MORE >

IBM Systems: The Foundation for Glass Skyscrapers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Although IBM's president, chief executive officer, and chairman, Sam Palmisano, did not utter the words server, mainframe, or Power Systems once in his presentation to Wall Street investors last week as he outlined the next five-year plan for revenue and profit growth for Big Blue, fear not. Systems remain at the very core of what IBM does today and what it will do in the future. But don't be confused. Systems are the foundation, they are not the house, and that house will have many more stories of software and services atop it than we are used to seeing. READ MORE >

As I See It: Thriving Away Again in Margaritaville
by Victor Rozek

My wife doesn't do well without coffee. So as we're standing in the airport security line at 6 a.m., caffeine deprived and bleary-eyed, she is not a carefree camper. When she spots a woman with a fresh cup, she pounces on her like a hockey goalie on a slow puck, and demands to know, Where did you get that? The woman says there is a vendor right next to the security gate. I must have been slow to react. With the impatience of Nixon shoving Zigler, she dispatches me to fetch coffee. READ MORE >