Moore's Law and the Performance Wall
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Moore's Law, one of the most famous observations in the IT industry, could soon be running out of gas. Some might even argue that for certain applications, the ability to cram twice as many transistors onto a piece of silicon every two years or so thanks to the drumbeat progress of semiconductor manufacturing technology advances (and observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965) has already hit a wall. For the Power Systems server running the current i 6.1 or the future i 7.1, the headlights out in front of us may be already showing the brick barrier we are facing. READ MORE >

iManifest Begins i Marketing Fundraising in the States
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

And then there were three. iManifest organizations that have been set up to do IBM's job of trying to market the Power Systems i platform, that is. Jeff Olen, who runs Olen Business Consulting and who has put his two decades into the AS/400-i market like many of us, has grabbed the iManifest baton and is off and running with an iManifest organization for the United States. READ MORE >

SafeData Makes Backup and Recovery Deal with Omni Solutions
by Dan Burger

SafeData, a company that specializes in subscription-based backup and recovery services that include high availability, electronic vaulting, virtualized recovery, and telecom recovery services, has added Omni Solutions to its expanding business partner program. Omni is a communications consulting firm with clients throughout North America. Its business strategy is to be a single point of contact for companies' communications, data, disaster recovery, and business continuity needs. READ MORE >

Mad Dog 21/21: CIO, Get Out Of That Glass House
by Hesh Wiener

Chief information officers whose companies' profits grew rapidly during the boom years of this decade seem to be outward-looking, ambitious, and interested in extending their influence far beyond the walls of their glass house computing facilities. That's what IBM says, based on interviews it conducted with more than 2,500 CIOs, distilled into a study anyone can register to receive. The CIOs that IBM characterizes as leaders and IBM itself seem to be in harmony, which might not be such a bad thing if their companies can adjust to current business conditions as well as IBM has. READ MORE >