• FalconStor Updates Deduplication Offering

  January 26, 2010 Alex Woodie

  FalconStor Software last week announced version 2 of its File-interface Deduplication System (FDS), a post-processing de-duplication software product that works on NFS and CIFS data stores. The new release brings performance enhancements and new management features and policies that will make the product easier to use in enterprise environments. FalconStor launched FDS last year to augment the existing data de-duplication features found in its IPStor software, which is used in its own virtual tape library (VTL) offerings, as well as the VTL offerings of FalconStor’s OEM partners. By de-duplicating the data arriving over the network file share (NFS) or common

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• Vendors Go Gaga for iPhone at Lotusphere

  January 26, 2010 Alex Woodie

  Getting Lotus Notes content on your mobile phone was all the rage at least week’s LotusSphere conference in Florida. IBM kicked things off by announcing the capability for users to securely send and receive e-mail on the iPhone with its new Lotus Notes Traveler Companion software. But IBM wasn’t the only vendor going gaga for all things mobile at the annual gathering of Notes and Domino professionals. Lotus Notes is no newbie to the mobile phone craze. In 2008, IBM unveiled Lotus Notes Traveler to fill the gap between the full Notes client, which requires the computing power of a

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• IBM Preps Power7 Launch For February

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Well, some of the mystery behind IBM‘s forthcoming and, as we now know impending, Power7-based Power Systems server launch has been solved. I said some of the mystery, so don’t get overly excited. As best as I can figure, I will still have some time to go through my hypothetical System iWant, 2010 Edition, product line before Big Blue actually gets the Power7 machines launched. But it also looks like I had better hurry. In going over IBM’s financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009 yesterday, Mark Loughridge, the company’s chief financial officer, gave a rundown on the

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• Looks Like i 7.1 Is Coming In April

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The word on the street is that IBM is gearing up to get the future release of its i/OS all buffed and polished so it can ship sooner rather than later. Which is good news for the Power Systems i business partner community. A broad new announcement, which the future operating system, to be dubbed i 7.1 unless the current naming plan changes, represents exactly what resellers need to give them a reason to come a-calling on AS/400, iSeries, and System i shops. According to sources familiar with Big Blue’s plans, i 7.1 is slated for delivery during the third

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• The IBM Profit Engine Keeps A-Rolling in Q4

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  IBM may no longer be the top provider of IT products and services in terms of annual revenues, but it is by far more profitable than its larger rival, Hewlett-Packard, which became king of the IT hill last year with $114.6 billion in sales (in fiscal 2009 ended in October) but which, at $7.7 billion in net income, only brings a little more than half of what IBM does to the bottom line. In IBM’s full 2009 year, the company had sales of $95.8 billion, down 7.6 percent, but net income was up 8.8 percent to $13.4 billion. In

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• As I See It: What Did You Do At Work Today, Daddy?

  January 25, 2010 Victor Rozek

  Spot Quiz: What’s not a drug, but is addictive? What contains no alcohol, but provides a buzz? What’s not smoked, but alters brain chemistry? What’s not food, but produces cravings. Hint: In recent years, it has become a silent workplace epidemic. Every day millions of men (and to a lesser degree women) sequester themselves in offices around the country and, in an attempt to relieve stress, assuage boredom, or mollify intense biochemical urges, Google their favorite Internet porno site. “A whopping 25 percent of all daily Internet search engine requests and 35 percent of all downloads are for pornography,” report

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• The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Midrange Boxes

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The midrange of IBM‘s Power Systems lineup is too complicated as it now stands, and IBM needs to once again simplify the product line while at the same time providing different chassis options to customers who have varying needs for peripheral storage such as disk, flash, and tape drives. With the launch of the Power7-based machines, due for their initial launch in February, likely with more machines rolling out as 2010 unfolds, Big Blue has a clean slate with which to work. Last week, I talked generally about some of the things that IBM should consider doing for its

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• Gartner: IT Spending Up, But Overall Budgets Flat, in 2010

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Everything may not yet be coming up roses with the economy, but at least it doesn’t smell like the stuff you spread around the plants in the spring. The analysts who monitor the global economy and try to chart IT spending say that they anticipate that IT spending on hardware, software, services, and telecom will be up this year. However, based on surveys with chief information officers, it looks like IT budgets–including internal people costs as well as spending on IT wares–will be flat. So I guess we all know what that means. Some or perhaps all of that growth

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• IBM Promotes Future Power7 Unix Boxes in Ads

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  I can hear the gnashing of teeth and see the clenching of fists already from the AS/400 midrange faithful as they rightfully ask: Where’s the i in the Power7 advertising budget? As The Four Hundred reports elsewhere, the cat is out of the bag and IBM is gearing up to launch Power7-based Power Systems in February, probably sooner rather than later. And last Thursday, on the very morning that Oracle announced it got regulatory approval from the European Union to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, it was no surprise that IBM let loose some advertising in the Wall Street

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• European Union Approves Oracle Gobbling Up Sun Microsystems

  January 25, 2010 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The many-year drama and 25-year history of Sun Microsystems is nearly over, and a new page in the history of software giant Oracle is about to be turned as Oracle buys a hardware company that controls the Java programming language and attempts to transform itself into a provider of integrated IT stacks. While Sun’s own shareholders (including a number of venture capitalists who had kicked in funds to the struggling server maker over the years) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division approved the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun last summer, the European Union’s antitrust regulators have been stalling

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