• IBM Adds Latest Sametime Chat Feature to Notes and Domino

  February 4, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that use the latest release of Notes and Domino can now get a complimentary copy of the Sametime instant messaging software, IBM announced last week. As part of the IBM Sametime Limited Use Entitlement for Notes and Domino version 9.0.1, Notes and Domino users can get access to the chat and presence awareness capabilities delivered with the full copy of Sametime. Customers don’t get access to all of Sametime’s capabilities, which also include voice over IP (VoIP) telephony and audio and video conferencing software. The complimentary copy of Sametime announced last week works across Notes clients, including the full

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• IBM’s X86 Exit Strategy: Arguing The Good And Bad

  February 3, 2014 Dan Burger

  The news that IBM is selling its X86 business travelled like a flash of lightning. Then comes the thunder, which lasts longer and speaks louder. The thunder is the interpretation, the explanation, and the ramifications of the X86 decision. IBM, no doubt, puts considerable effort into making major business decisions like this one and then an equal amount of effort into making the decisions sound good to as many people as possible. And why not? We’d all be happier if we saw only good in everything, right? What good can come from questioning the decisions of IBM executives? The cards

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• PureSystems Base Busts Through 10,000 Installations

  February 3, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There may have been some uncertainty about the future of IBM‘s X86-based server business throughout 2013, but customers wanting converged systems, which bring servers, storage, networking, and a unified management framework all together, took it in stride. The PureSystems installations have continued a-pace, says Big Blue. To be specific, the installed base of PureSystems iron numbered more than 10,000 units as 2013 came to a close, which is up from the more than 8,000 units that IBM had at the end of the third quarter of last year. I also got some much-needed clarification on what, precisely, IBM is

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• Cloud Migration Service Shifts From IBM i To Linux

  February 3, 2014 Dan Burger

  Even though we don’t talk about it much, there are companies throwing in the towel and looking for IT solutions that do not include IBM i, Power Systems, or IBM. One of the companies with a track record of working in the IBM i migration business is Infinite Corporation, which last week introduced a new cloud-based migration plan called Infinite i. It will compete head-to-head with IBM i-based clouds. Infinite has built its business on IBM i migrations and the integration of legacy applications with other platforms. In the past, this has involved existing on-premise systems, but cloud

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• Mad Dog 21/21: Noshing Like Cronus

  February 3, 2014 Hesh Wiener

  IBM is a modern day Titan. In Greek mythology, the Titans were children of Uranus who preceded the Olympian Gods. If an observer were to pick one Titan to compare to IBM, it would be Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn. Cronus ate five of his children in an effort to preserve his power, the way IBM has eaten the compatible mainframes and Power and mainframe emulators its technology spawned. A sixth child of Cronus, Zeus, eluded that fate, as the PC did in IBM’s case. In the end, Zeus deposed Cronus. Cronus: Peter Paul Reubens painted Cronus eating

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• SaaS: Come For The Savings, Stay For The Competitive Advantage

  February 3, 2014 Alex Woodie

  Organizations that initially move strongly toward adopting software as a service (SaaS) offerings to save money often find that it also leads to competitive advantage in the areas of collaboration and data analytics, according to a new IBM study on SaaS usage trends. Through its Center of Applied Insights, IBM studied the SaaS usage trends of 800 organizations around the world to see how the use of SaaS was affecting their business performance. IBM says it found a correlation between companies that have the most widespread use of SaaS applications and the ability of an organization to use SaaS for

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• Reader Feedback On RPG OA: Open Opportunity And IBM’s Q4

  February 3, 2014 Hey, IBM

  Sorry, you are stuck in a green screen world because you let yourselves be duped that the PC and Unix way were the wave of the future. Green screen created by DDS was quite innovative in its day and it made interactive programming simple for IBM shops–20 or 30 years ago–with RPG when other companies struggled and could not create anything close to this one-time elegant and always simple user interface provided by the notion of a display file. IBM had a winner and chose to hang its hat on Java and PHP and tools for application development, and so

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• Energy Consumption Bites IT Budgets; IBM Responds

  February 3, 2014 Dan Burger

  A smarter planet begins with energy management, whether it is measured throughout a data center or on a single server and all of its peripherals. Shocking electric bills are bringing this to the attention of the accounting department on a monthly basis. The utility companies are getting a 12 percent raise this year, based on a national average, and you probably aren’t. So add this to your list of reasons why it is a bad business decision to compare servers and all your IT gear simply on out-of-the-box pricing. There have been significant improvements in processor energy efficiency, and certain

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• Why Is [Insert IT Vendor Of Choice] So . . . .

  February 3, 2014 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Let’s have some fun. I was feeling goofy the other day and as we all often do when we are feeling goofy, I asked Google a direct question. In this case, I didn’t finish the sentence, because I wanted to see what the zeitgeist out there was asking. You can do this by letting Google do the autofill. At some point in the near future, we will just have a Watson interface for this and all the fun will be gone. But by that time, I will be living a self-sustaining life on a small farm in the mountains somewhere,

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• Got IBM i Innovation? Get Your Award Application In

  February 3, 2014 Alex Woodie

  What great feats of IBM i innovation have you been party to lately? If you have a story worth sharing with the rest of the IBM i universe, you have a few days left to submit it for your chance at glory and a COMMON/IBM Power Systems Innovation Award. The deadline is February 10. Every spring, an Innovation Award is bestowed upon one worthy IBM i shop at the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition event. This year, February 10 is the deadline for submitting your application for the 2014 COMMON conference, which is taking place the first week in

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