IT organizations are constantly faced with the challenge to produce high-quality solutions with a lower total cost of ownership. With the growing recognition that open source software provides quality, stable solutions, migrations of existing enterprise applications to products such as...

SOA Industry Analysis and Advisory Firm ZapThink launched a topic site on Ulitzer. ZapThink is an IT advisory and analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight into the architectural and organizational changes brought about by the movement to XML, Web Services, and...

IBM is now offering Microsoft customers free of charge Lotus Symphony software that is compatible with Microsoft Office formats and supports a wide range of widgets which extend the functionality of the software. IBM and a variety of third parties -- including independent software vend...

Managed Methods Inc., a provider of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance, has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for applications running on IBM WebSphere ESB, MQ, WSRR and environ...

There’s a big scorch mark where server sales used to be according to IDC, which put out its worst-since-records-have-been-kept Q2 figures Wednesday, hoping that with the installed base growing increasing hoary with age buyers are starting to replace them. The researcher said factory...

Adaptive Computing, the company behind the Moab unified intelligent automation technology, plans to offer its Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite on IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and iDataPlex server families to create dynamic, intelligent HPC clusters in data cente...

CA CEO John Swainson, the IBMer brought in five years ago in the aftermath of the $2 billion stock fraud that ultimately sent one of his predecessors to a federal pokey for a 12-year hitch, wants to retire by the end of year, if not before. CA’s board is now looking for a replacement. ...

OpenXava 3.1.4 is an open source framework to rapid development of Portlet Enterprise applications deployable in WebSphere Portal 6.1. With OpenXava, you only need to write your model, POJOs and Java annotations. You do not need to write the view, and the controller (for CRUD, print...

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...

Emulex Corporation announced that it is providing a Virtual Fabric Adapter based on its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) architecture for flexible Ethernet network connectivity in IBM BladeCenter HS22 blade servers. This marks Emulex’s first announced 10Gb/s Ethern...

Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effect...

Over the next six years JVC Kenwood Holdings is going to spend $27.4 million more or less (2.6 billion yen) so IBM can lift it into an outsourced cloud. The system will utilize IBM’s Shared Hosting Services for its System z mainframes or “zSHS” and be hosted out of IBM’s data center in...

Stacey Higgenbottom over at the GigaOM blogs had a chat with IBM's chief cloud wrangler Erich Clementi and came away saying that IBM's going to built a general-purpose WebSphere platform-as-a-service offering along the lines of Microsoft's Azure and Rackspace's Mosso - and to a lesser ...

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...

BMC Monday said it has acquired privately held MQSoftware, the Minneapolis outfit that does middleware and enterprise application transaction management. Terms were not disclosed. It’s BMC’s very first mainframe-related acquisition and it says it’ll be the first time that the enterpris...

IBM has announced the System z Solution Edition Series - seven integrated hardware, software and services packages that help customers deploy new enterprise workloads, such as data warehousing, electronic payments and disaster recovery. IBM also announced additional new programs to hel...

Cluster Resources, the company behind the Moab unified intelligent automation technology that's pretty much a commonplace in the world's top supercomputers, finds its business turning increasingly commercial so it's changed its name to Adaptive Computing. It thinks that Cluster Reso...

Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop. The ingredients this time consist of Canonical's Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges' Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment...

The Government of Nepal’s High Level Commission for Information Technology (HLCIT) has tapped IBM to help with the development of “policy, frameworks, research and solutions to support Nepal’s vision of being a smart country.” As part of a long-term cooperation and collaboration, IB...

IBM has bought Ounce Labs, a privately held Massachusetts company whose security and compliance widgetry will be integrated into IBM’s Rational AppScan line. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ounce Labs scans source code to identify potential security and compliance vulnerabilities d...

SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS), a global provider of Predictive Analytics software and solutions, announced that as a result of the recent announcement of a definitive merger agreement with IBM, it will no longer host its 2009 second quarter conference call previously scheduled for Tuesday, ...

IBM and the city of Wuxi in China have gotten together on a cloud for Chinese ISVs that's supposed to reduce their costs, hasten the development of business applications and get them into new export markets by selling their widgetry as hosted web-based services. It's the first of it...

IBM is peeling off $1.2 billion to buy SPSS. It’s paying $50 a share cash, a 42% premium, to expand its Information on Demand (IOD) portfolio and its business analytics capabilities as well as strengthen its ability to turn company information into a strategic asset. IBM previously lic...

EMC took 78.2% control of Data Domain at end of business last Friday. Complete acquisition is expected by the end of the month when EMC says Data Domain will be the start of a new production division focused on next-generation disk-based backup, recovery and archiving solutions. The di...

Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," or "fully homomorphic encryption," makes possible the deep and unlimited analysis of enc...

IBM’s got some new systems software for managing cross-platform virtual servers called Systems Director VMControl. It says users can discover, display, monitor and locate virtual resources; create and manage virtual servers; and deploy and manage workloads with a common interface a...

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub. It's launched Singapore's first integrate...

IBM – bless its mercenary little heart – trounced the Street’s Q2 projections and for a surprise raised its full-year expectations Thursday despite the lingering horror of the macro economy. It expects to exploit growth opportunities that the recovery presents.

With 47.68% of the company already pledged to it by its two founders, Software AG says it intends to tender for the rest of German-based IDS Scheer AG and create a global vendor of infrastructure software and Business Process Management (BPM) that has more than 6,000 employees and upwa...

IBM lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would stop its ex-M&A chief David Johnson from going to work for Dell. District Court Judge Stephen Robinson vacated the June 4 order that let Robinson join Dell but basically restricted his activities to just looking around. IBM Frida...

“SOA serves as the foundation for the move into the cloud,” stated Dr. Kareem Yusuf, Director Product Management, WebSphere Software, IBM in his keynote at SOA World Conference & Expo in NYC Tuesday. “What are the characteristics of the cloud?” Dr Yusuf then asked. Shared infrastructur...

IBM has announced new investments for its Ireland Development Lab to produce intelligent software, which help lower cost of operations; generate intelligence for quick growth; and build closer business relationships with customers, partners and colleagues. New jobs will be created for ...

LotusLive Connections simplifies working together, making it easy to identify and work with experts from any company online with the flexibility, convenience and affordable pricing associated with multi-tenant cloud services. Instant messaging, file sharing and activities are all insta...

Boulder, CO. Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 5.0. While providing full support for SO...

With IBM taking major initiatives in the cloud computing arena this week, it is timely that SYS-CON Events recently announced that IBM WebSphere Director of Product Management Dr. Kareem Yusuf will be delivering a keynote on cloud computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at th...

The new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a one-stop shop for creating, deploying, and managing WebSphere virtual systems in a private cloud. It has quite a lot of very cool features that make this a possibility, and I could go on and on about those features.

Based on nearly two years of research and hundreds of client engagements, the IBM Smart Business cloud portfolio is meant to help clients turn complex business processes into simple services. To accomplish this, Smart Business brings sophisticated automation technology and self-service...

Well IBM has gone and done it, they've announced a cloud offering yet again. Actually what's interesting about this go, is not that they're getting into the cloud business (again) but instead this time they're serious about it.

Figuring that the cloud may be the “most significant shift in technology since the outset of the Internet,” IBM is moving to ensure it gets its piece of what could be a $66 billion business in three years.

If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many qu...