IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability
I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM. [...]
IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 Round-up
This year’s IBM analyst event was much better packed with meaty information than lasts. It seems there’s been a fair amount of work – esp. around cloud, but also with Lotus – over the past year. While there was still plenty about IBM’s Industry Framework air-ware (key insight here from talking with IBM’s John Soyring: [...]
Cloud – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
IBM finally seems to “get it” when it comes to cloud computing, but do we really want to know what “it” is?
Systems Interlude, STG Lunch – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
While at the IBM software group analyst event this year, along with several other analysts, I was invited to a lunch from the IBM systems group (or, “STG”) – hardware, from x to z, including storage. In particular, it was the new general manager, Helene Armitage, for software in the systems group talking about the [...]
Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
Lotus has come a long way in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Can they keep going?
Afternoon – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
After this morning’s more technical sessions, the afternoon of the IBM analyst event this year reinforced the non-technology driven speaking-agenda that IBM has been going on about over the past year, that being “Smart Planet.” That phrase has has come to wrap two things:
The Internet of Things realized in an industrial form – sensors, RFIDs, [...]
Morning Round-up – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
Summary of analytics and image sessions at the IBM analyst event, hopes for the rest of the show.
