• The Web Runtime Tax: The Tax Man Cometh, Again

  June 18, 2007 Brian Kelly

  On February 5, I had the pleasure of applying for a U.S. passport for an exotic cruise I am taking this summer, but I was hoping that I might expedite the process so that I could use the passport to fly into Toronto, Canada, for a one-day IBM pre-announcement briefing on iSeries Application Development-the WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) in particular. Unfortunately for me, without a trip to Philadelphia or Harrisburg, the time for which I could ill afford, my passport would not arrive in time to fly to the February 22, 2007, event. In mid-January, the rules changed and

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• New Efficiency Goals Set by Climate Savers Computing Initiative

  June 18, 2007 Alex Woodie

  Intel and Google last week joined dozens of other top tech companies and competitors in the creation of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a new organization dedicated to making PCs and servers more energy efficient and, hopefully, better for the environment. They were joined by Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and about 35 other technology vendors in founding the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. The group and its goals are modeled after the World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program. The group’s initial goal is to encourage computer and component manufacturers to build products that meet or surpass

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• Disk Array Sales Still Humming Along, Says IDC

  June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Few things in the world exhibit such perfect elasticity of price and demand as the appetite that corporations have had over the past 50 years for disk storage. As disk technology has progressed and the cost of a unit of capacity has come down dramatically, this has fueled an even larger demand for capacity. This has remained so in the first quarter of 2007, according to statistics compiled by IDC. Sales worldwide of external disk arrays rose by 5.9 percent in the first quarter to $4.3 billion. Total disk array sales, which includes internal arrays that are popular for

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• Azul Systems Upgrades Java Appliances

  June 18, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Java co-processor appliance maker Azul Systems has made good on its promise to roll out more scalable Java appliances this year based on its “Vega 2” 48-core processor for hosting Java Virtual Machines. Last December, Azul launched the Vega 2 chip, which had twice as many cores per chip as its predecessor, the Vega 1, and therefore can do about twice as much Java work. The two Compute Appliance machines launched back in December had two or four Vega 2 chips, which supported either 96 cores (the model 3210) or 192 cores (the model 3220). At the time, Azul said

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• ‘Catch the Wave’ OCEAN Tech Conference Returns to SoCal

  June 18, 2007 Dan Burger

  One of the largest and most active local user groups in the United States, the OCEAN User Group of Southern California, is hosting its annual “Catch the Wave” technical conference Monday, July 16. The event focuses on the IBM System i, iSeries, and AS/400 platform as well as the i5/OS and OS/400 operating systems. The one-day event will feature 30 educational sessions, which are divided into six tracks comprised of five sessions. Attendees can choose to remain in one track for the entire five sessions or pick sessions from any number of tracks. The following tracks are on the

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• IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

  June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture. With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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• IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

  June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture. With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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• IBM Rejiggers BladeCenter for SMBs

  June 13, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  If you want to sell servers to small and medium businesses, here is a very simple rule of thumb: Engineer a box that plugs into a normal wall outlet, like a PC does, and they will proliferate like mushrooms in a musty cave. Try to sell a sophisticated 220-volt blade server chassis to these customers, and SMB shops will balk and therefore not receive the many benefits of the blade server architecture. With a new BladeCenter-S chassis that IBM previewed today and that it plans to start selling in the fourth quarter, the company hopes to change the dynamics of

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• The i5 515 and 525 Versus the Windows Competition

  June 11, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Now that the user-priced System i5 515 and 525 servers have been in the market for a while, the time has come to see how they stack up to the competition and to prior generations of System i5 machines. While the user-priced machines are capable of supporting legacy RPG and COBOL applications using the 5250 green-screen protocol, IBM is trying to position these machines for new workloads, like Java and PHP, as well as old ones, and is therefore trying to gauge their performance on the basis of those new workloads. To help make the case for the i5 515,

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• CIOs Get Ready to Hire in the Summer

  June 11, 2007 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The IT business took it on the chin seven years ago after spending like a drunken sailor on dot-com businesses and application modernization efforts, and in the wake of the global recession after the September 11 terrorist attacks, companies not only stopped hiring IT staff, they put projects on hold and, in some cases, they let go of employees they could no longer afford to keep. What a difference six years makes. According to Robert Half Technology, which has been monitoring IT hiring practices since 1995, the increase in expected hiring in the third quarter is the highest since

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