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  • Aussies And Kiwis Get Killer Power 720 Bundle

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    The exploding Chinese economy has been a boon for both Australia and New Zealand, which sit close together and are packed with food and raw materials that the Chinese economy needs. New Zealand has suffered an earthquake that has literally and economically rattled the country, but it is running trade surpluses according to The Economist. Like its larger neighbor, Australia, and the United States, New Zealand has its own deficit spending and housing bubble, too. But both Australia and New Zealand managed to escape the clutches of the Great Recession.

    Given all this, I found the announcement of a

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  • Second Quarter Server Sales Humming Right Along

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    We were deep into the third quarter of 2011, but the data about how well or poorly different systems did in the second quarter had just come out while The Four Hundred was on its Labor Day hiatus. The good news is that the server business–a bellwether for the national and global economies–continues to grow and looks to be back to something close to normal.

    With so much mixed economic news out there, the fact that server sales continue to be robust, coming close to setting all-time volume record for a second quarter, may be more of an indication about

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  • As I See It: Going Silent

    September 12, 2011 Victor Rozek

    My first IT job was working swing shift computer operations for a Silicon Valley wafer manufacturer. In those days, disc packs were removable and resembled layered cakes consisting of a stack of platters coated with oxide icing. Each evening I would run a long series of sequential jobs. The process needed to be expeditious if there was any hope of finishing by shift’s end, which meant starting the next job as soon as the preceding one ended.

    But even if I wasn’t glued to a monitor, the movement of the heads across the platters provided an accurate indicator of progress.

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  • A Big Data Hungry IBM Buys i2 and Algorithmics

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With the exceptions of Lotus and Cognos, IBM doesn’t like to do large acquisitions of software companies. Big Blue likes to acquire niche specialists that have made it out of startup mode and have established a few hundred to a few thousand customers that could use the immensitude of IBM’s partner channel and direct sales force. While The Four Hundred was on hiatus, IBM snapped up two such software companies, each with its own industry-focused twist on big data.

    On August 31, IBM paid a rumored $500 million to acquire i2, a British software company with a specialty in

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  • Reader Feedback On As I See It: Piling On

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Victor:

    I don’t usually agree with the premises in your articles, but I have to give credit where it is due: you were “spot on” in your discussion of “the unemployed need not apply.”

    I am a recruiter and see it time and again. It goes along with a discussion I heard in a gathering of Young i Professionals (YiPs) recently. There is clearly discrimination and disdain toward the unemployed and to those that may be “seasoned” even if they are making the effort to keep their skills current. Great job!

    –Carole

    Victor:

    Thanks for that summary of what we

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  • IBM Ponies Up $1 Billion In Cost Busters Financing For SMBs

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    With all the talk about jobs, jobs, jobs–and not just the ailing co-founder of Apple–and people not creating enough of them, IBM, with typical enlightened self-interest, is putting up $1 billion in financing for small and medium businesses to modernize their hardware and software and to acquire services.

    “We are in no way, shape, or form making political statements here,” explains Ed Abrams, vice president of midmarket business at IBM. “We are just trying to help SMBs grow the way that we know that they can and the global economy needs them to.”

    According to Abrams, most of

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  • Tape Consortium Makes The Case For Tape Storage

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Online backup and real-time replication of data to the cloud are something that most IT shops and many consumers are looking at these days as the amount of data they are handling goes through the data center roof and living room ceiling alike. But the Ultrium Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium wants IT shops to remember that ultimately they want to have archives on tape stored somewhere secure for extra redundancy and safety.

    Apropos of nothing in the dull days of August, the LTO consortium pointed out two studies that would be useful for IT shops trying to justify the

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  • An Insider’s Look Back At The IBM

    September 12, 2011 Jenny Thomas

    It would be a safe assumption to assume that anyone who had worked for one company for 30 years might have some insights and opinions to share about that employer. During his three decades at IBM, Peter Greulich worked in administration, worldwide sales, marketing, and technical roles in Software Group. That gave him an insider’s view on what makes Big Blue tick and time to develop some strong opinions on why it continues to thrive.

    Greulich holds IBM up as a company that should be studied and admired for its ability to weather multiple recessions and the constant change

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  • IBM Gives More Freebie Slices On SmartCloud Service

    September 12, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Here’s the kind of deal you never see on a mainframe or a Power Systems-IBM i platform: free server capacity. And it is certainly not the kind of deal you see twice in the same year. But IBM is trotting out another deal to give customers a free spin on its SmartCloud infrastructure clouds, which support Windows and Linux workloads on X64-based iron.

    IBM puffed up the SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure cloud back in April, its alternative to the EC2 compute cloud from online retailer Amazon, which is one of the pioneers in cloud computing. IBM wants to make

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  • Adobe Flash Builder for the iSeries Programmer, Part 2

    September 7, 2011 Shannon O'Donnell

    NOTE: The code accompanying this article is available for download here.

    In my last article, I introduced you to the Adobe Flash Builder tool and showed you just how easy it is to create Flash-based user interfaces. In addition, I showed you how to integrate Flash components that other people create without having to know much, if anything, about them. And I told you that in future articles I would be showing you how to use Flash Builder to display and interact with iSeries DB2/400 data.

    Well, the future has arrived! In this article, which is the first

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