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  • As I See It: Get Ready to ROWE

    September 15, 2008 Victor Rozek

    Each generation holds beliefs about work that are forged by time and place. Some are accepted without question, others are repeated with sufficient frequency that they become hard-coded in the collective consciousness. For example, people who lived through the Great Depression believed that nothing could be more important than having a job.

    As the Depression gave way to the post war economic ramp-up, people were able to secure a single job that spanned an entire career. But when the pace of prosperity quickened, people came to believe that job-hopping was the way to accelerate their earning potential. By the time

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  • IBM Rolls Out WebSphere and Web Enablement for i V7.0

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Big Blue last week put a new version of its WebSphere Application Server middleware, V7.0 to be specific, into the field for its various server platforms and for those of several of its competitors. In addition to the updated WebSphere middleware, which has a cornucopia of Java enhancements and all the Web 2.0 buzzwords you can stomach, IBM announced its companion set of freebie extensions for WebSphere, called Web Enablement for i, at the V7.0 level as well.

    With WebSphere Application Server V7.0, IBM is delivering full support for the Java EE 5 standard and has certified that it has

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  • Survive, Adapt, Repeat: IT Jungle Shutting Down Non-AS/400 Newsletters

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Some stories are harder to write than others, and this one will go down as one of the most difficult stories that I have had to do in a long time. No life, no career, and no company is without its risks and challenges, and every person or organization has to continually assess what is going on around them and deal with what is while keeping an eye on whatever dreams and plans they might have. And so it has been for myself and my team with regard to the IT Jungle.

    My team and I came together in our

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  • Arrow and IBM to Chase Deals Together in Poland

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Server maker IBM and one of its two key master resellers, Arrow Electronics, have joined forces to try to take a concerted effort to push servers and storage into SMB shops into Poland.

    The deal, which involves the Enterprise Computing Solutions group at Arrow and IBM’s Power Systems division, allows Arrow ESC to peddle the full Power Systems i Edition and AIX and Linux Edition machines, as well as their System i and System p predecessors (which is important for upgrade deals) into Poland through a reseller channel. Arrow, you will remember, significantly expanded its presence in Europe back

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  • Disk Array and Storage Software Sales Up Smartly in the Second Quarter

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    While certain parts of the server market in specific geographies have been hit by economic pressures, price competition, and deal deferrals in recent months, thus putting downward pressure on shipment and revenue growth in the server space, disk arrays and related storage software have thus far been growing like everything is still right with the world. The second quarter, according to the analysts at IDC, was another good one for disk array makers.

    IDC reckons that external disk array sales rose by 16.7 percent in Q2, hitting $5.1 billion, and that total disk sales rose by a more modest

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  • Volvo IT Partners to Operate ERP Apps for IBS Customers

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you like the ERP software created by Swedish company International Business Systems but you don’t want to mess around with supporting the systems that run it, then IBS has an interesting services partner for you: Volvo IT, the IT services arm of the Swedish car maker of the same name.

    Last week, IBS, one of the few remaining free-standing ERP software makers that has a strong presence in the OS/400, i5/OS, and i platform, announced that it has tapped fellow countryman Volvo IT to provide operational support services for the IBS ERP suite. Volvo IT is to Volvo as

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  • The BladeCenter S Gets a New SAS RAID Disk Module

    September 15, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM wants small and medium businesses to adopt the blade server form factor, but the storage options available for blades are not really appropriate for SMB shops. On-blade disk capacity is limited to one or two drives, which means the blade cannot support lots of file capacity and certainly is inappropriate for supporting anything but the most ridiculously modest level of online transaction processing; and storage area networking is well beyond the budget of SMB shops, and a bit like killing a gnat with a cast iron frying pan.

    This is one reason why IBM has announced a SAS module

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  • Expanded Power Systems i Boxes on the Horizon?

    September 8, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    It has been a quiet summer in Lake Woebegone, er, rather Rochester, Minnesota, and its Silver Lake. The run from late June through September is traditionally a quiet one, with a few nips and tucks here and there in the Power Systems lineup. But as we all know from reading The Four Hundred, IBM still has a little unfinished Power Systems business for 2008. And the word on the street is that some tweaked gear might be coming down the pike any day now.

    Heaven only knows if what I am hearing is true, because Big Blue doesn’t usually

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  • Entry Power System i Boxes Compete Well with Windows Boxes

    September 8, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    One of the key reasons why IBM merged the System i and System p product lines this year was to get the i platform more competitive with the rest of the system market. By converging the Power server family and stopping its practice of overcharging System i customers for hardware and software, Big Blue has made the entry Power Systems i Edition lineup–that’s the Power 520 and the BladeCenter S with JS12 blade servers–absolutely competitive with equivalent Windows boxes running online transaction processing workloads.

    This is the second time in two years, with two generations of products, that this has

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  • X64 Servers See Pricing Pressure in Q2, Big Box Sales Grow

    September 8, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The urge to virtualize servers and a resurgence in mainframe sales has helped buoy overall server sales in the second quarter, according to statistics compiled by IDC, which reckons that the corporations and organizations of the world bought an aggregate of $13.9 billion worth of iron. Compared to the prior year’s quarter, sales rose by 6.4 percent, hitting the highest revenue level in a second quarter since 2000, the peak of the dot-com boom. Server shipment growth in the quarter rose by 11.1 percent, driven substantially by 2 million X64 servers that went out the door in the quarter–a

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