A Bumblebee for BI–Now That’s Just ‘Smart’
August 26, 2008 Alex Woodie
Domino got one (the original “Bumblebee”). JD Edwards, Linux, and the high availability vendors got theirs, too. We’re talking about dedicated System i hardware–or appliances, if you will. So why isn’t there a pre-integrated i OS bundle for business intelligence, one of the fastest growing application segments in IT? For whatever reason, that’s about to change, thanks to a group of IBM business partners in Southern California, who have teamed up to create the “Smart i.” The idea of a dedicated server is not new at IBM, which has offered various flavors of the Power Systems server geared for different |