After 10 years of trench warfare and a body count of close to $1.8 billion in fines, the European Commission is getting ready to pass Microsoft the roach of concord and close the book on the case. The EC said Wednesday that a final settlement of the browser issue, Europe’s updated vers...

Gee and it was only four o’clock yesterday morning Microsoft time that Microsoft’s general counsel Brad Smith remarked that antitrust regulators might try targeting somebody else besides Microsoft for a change. Like, oh, say, maybe, IBM for its $5 trillion 100% mainframe...

IBM has announced a new software technology called DB2 pureScale, running on IBM Power Systems, that helps clients increase their database transaction capacity while reducing the risk and cost of growing their IT systems. Jointly developed by the IBM Toronto Software Lab and Power Syst...

Performed at IBM’s Innovation Center for Business Partners in San Mateo, California, testing was done with a full multi-tenancy configuration, the most complex large-scale extended enterprise scenario. In multi-tenancy configurations, a single system serves the requirements of multiple...

The press release states that under the terms of the one year agreement, Sunwin will provide marketing support and technical staff to support Hunan Fuhui's sales efforts within the province. Additionally, Hunan Fuihui must distribute at least 50 tons of stevia extract within the first ...

Under the terms of the agreement, GROUP will resell Unify’s market leading content archiving and e-discovery solutions for Lotus Notes to its more than 2,500 global customers as well as into the Lotus Notes market worldwide. Unify’s AXS-Link for Lotus Notes software (which it recently ...

Having just gone into competition with Google’s Gmail Monday, IBM said Tuesday that it’s going to take on Amazon’s S3 storage cloud and anybody else in the storage cloud business by launching its own Smart Business Storage Cloud along with a so-called Information Archive. As with its d...

A team of industry leaders in cloud computing will be hosting a free webcast to provide insights and best practices on cloud-based IT service delivery. Experts from Intel Corporation, Univa UD and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants will lead the session, which takes place on...

IBM has announced LotusLive iNotes, a new email service that delivers the benefits of cloud computing with a focus on reliability, privacy and security, to millions of mainstream business users starting at $3 per user, per month. The new IBM LotusLive iNotes cloud service allows overbu...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His...

SAP Cash Optimization is available on IBM's Smart Cube as part of the Smart Business program. Designed from the ground up for small to midsize businesses (SMBs), IBM Smart Business is a radically simple way to select, install and maintain business software. Cincom's business intelligen...

The Connecting to the Cloud series of articles, which I wrote for IBM DeveloperWorks, is now available in Japanese. The series introduces cloud platforms such as Force.com and Amazon SQS, including code samples in Java, and governance and policy, again including code samples (an Amazon...

Remember that ad Oracle ran a few weeks ago on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and later on the back cover of the Economist and repeated on its web site claiming "Sun + Oracle is Faster" than IBM? Oracle's claim for an undefined Oracle-Sun box was supposedly based on TPC-C re...

Telepresence centers feature high-definition visual communications tools that range from personal units to life-size screens that sprawl the length of the room, with duplex and directional sound. The technology allows clients to hold virtual meetings with multiple locations at one time...

Taking a page out of Cisco's book - from the chapter on so-called smart cities - IBM late Thursday announced that the city of Dongying near China's second-largest oil field in the midst of the Yellow River Delta is going to build a cloud to promote e-government and support its transiti...

IBM is buying the business of RedPill Solutions, a privately held company in Singapore that sells advanced customer analytics services to businesses in financial services, telecommunications, technology and hospitality. Financial details were not disclosed. It should help it compete fo...

The mission of the IBM Center of Innovation for Linux and Open Standards is to drive the development and adoption of open standards and open source technologies among businesses and government organizations of Kazakhstan. The Center will help local software developers increase their Li...

IBM’s paranoid defense of its mainframe monopoly is going to be tested again but this time if it blows the start-up out of the water, or denies it clearance to compete, it’ll be messing with an open source operation, and a European open source start-up to boot. The European Commission,...

Today at a press conference in Dongying, China, the local government announced a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to use cloud computing to jumpstart new economic development in the region. Traditionally known for manufacturing and oil cultivation, Dongying will use IBM cloud ...

Chongqing Jinshan Science & Technology Inc. (Jinshan), a leader in China's healthcare industry, is working with IBM (NYSE: IBM) as it transforms from a traditional medical device supplier to a provider of medical and health management services. Jinshan will use IBM's digital service ca...

The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance can bring speed and agility to test organizations by drastically increasing the pace and ease with which users interact with WebSphere Application Server environments. I recently got a chance to catch up with IBM's Robbie Minshall. Robbie is a WebSphe...

IBM and Canonical are introducing a new, flexible personal computing software package for netbooks and other thin client devices to help businesses in Africa bridge the digital divide by leapfrogging traditional PCs and proprietary software. This is the first cloud- and premise-based L...

Half the apps on the Internet are written in PHP. That gives Zend Technologies, the PHP house, a stake in the cloud. So it’s rounded up cloud merchants Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, GoGrid and Nirvanix and has gotten them to support its new open source drive to create a so-called Simple A...

I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utiliz...

Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...

EISA or Extended Industry Standard Architecture is a bus standard typically used for IBM compatible computers. It extends the AT bus architecture to 32 bits and thus allows more than CPUs to share the same bus. In Windows, sometimes when you convert a basic disk that contains an EISA p...

President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement. President Obama will personally bestow the award at a special ...

Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that it continues to offer companies an easy transition to Lotus Web Content Management (WebCM). In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must have the ability to effectively ...

Sewell is giving up AMD v Intel, which has set records for the amount of discovery it has produced, Intel's appeal of the European Commission's heady $1.45 billion fine and the company's difference with regulators in Korea and elsewhere to report directly to Steve Jobs, who had no comp...

Gartner analyst Will Cappelli talks about how applications have become central to enterprise IT operations, and how complex architectures have led to significant challenges in monitoring and managing the performance of applications. As enterprise application architectures become more m...

As the complexity, immediacy, and scope of enterprise processes increase, so does the risk of failure. Comprehensive, proactive management of next-generation information processes and services is critical. Traditional application management tools are inadequate to manage next-generatio...

Web Applications are now woven into the way that many enterprises operate, and monitoring and management of these applications become extremely important to businesses that require nimble datacenters. The risks of failure rise as enterprise application complexity, immediacy, and scope....

Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...

Hosted Solutions, a provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), announced today that the company has significantly expanded its suite of application hosting and management capabilities to include support for a full range of leading business applications, including Microsoft SQL ...

Mired in a storm of economic uncertainty, plans for increased investments in mainframe hardware and software represent a ray of light for enterprise data center managers who plan to leverage their existing mainframe deployments. According to a new, comprehensive IDC survey of 300 end u...

IBM has introduced new services, software and systems for midsize companies that can help them gain actionable insight, increase productivity, and improve collaboration. IBM is introducing Cognos Express business intelligence software, an analytics solution designed for companies with...

Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi...

At VMworld on Monday IBM announced what it called the industry’s first public desktop cloud. It will be available in the Americas and Europe starting in October. IBM describes it as its biggest cloud computing endorsement to date enabling anywhere/anytime access for everything from ...

Are you still using expensive, proprietary middleware? Tired of rising license costs? Enterprises such as Priceline.com, Citistreet, and many more have decided there is a better way. There are compelling reasons to switch to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including more capabili...