IBM rolls out its mobile credentials
IBM says the mobile market is around $250B and is looking to grab a part of the pie.
News Analysis: IBM Buys Sterling Commerce From AT&T
Merger Ties B2B Integration Tools With Selling And Fulfillment On May 24th, IBM surprised the market with its $1.4B, all-cash, definitive agreement to buy Dublin, Ohio based Sterling Commerce from AT&T. Sterling Commerce was purchased by SBC Communications in 2000 for its strengths in B2B integration. As an AT&T company in 2005, they acquired [...]
IBM Impact 2010: Happy Partners and Cloud Certifications
Last week I was at IBM’s Impact 2010 – which used to be the company’s show for WebSphere customers but is now being rebranded as the “premier conference for business and IT leaders”. The business track was not my cup of Lapsong Souchong, but RedMonk is more about geeks than suits. But did the event [...]
IBM buys itself a cloud integration toolbox
IBM bought Cast Iron Systems because it simply had nothing in its huge Websphere toolbox that could do cloud integration. I just heard the company’s SVP of its software group Steve Mills admit this in today’s IBM press briefing, talking about the acquisition. While IBM has a massive catalog of technologies for integrating applications within [...]
IBM acquires Cast Iron Systems: Cloud Services integration for Enterprise
I got up early this morning for an invite only breakfast with WebSphere GM Craig Hayman. Turns out IBM just acquired Cast Iron Systems. What’s the big idea? Take companies onto the cloud. That’s right folks- its a cloud onboarding play. The firm has 75 employees, was founded 2001, and has a stellar list of [...]
Private Cloud as a Stepping Stone
I’ve not been keen on the notion of private cloud I think it’s often a misnomer, an attempt to pick-and-choose from the cloud computing model in a way that eliminates many of the benefits. But I have grudgingly come…
Hacking UK Politics with IBM Middleware: open data, mashups, and uh… WebSphere
One of my favourite app of recent times is Ben Marsh’s UKSnow, which uses people as sensors, and twitter as the collection mechanism – to track and visualise snowfall across the UK. So it was cool to come across a similar app of that tracks people’s likely voting preferences in the UK general election. Step [...]
News Analysis: Salesforce.com and VMware Up The Ante In The Cloud Wars With VMforce
VMWare and Salesforce.com Battle For The Hearts And Minds Of Cloud-Oriented Java Developers On April 27th, 2010, Salesforce.com, [NYSE: CRM] and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) formed VMforce, a strategic alliance to create a deployment environment for Java based apps in the cloud. The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering builds on Java, Spring, VMware vSphere, and Force.com. Key [...]
IBM BlueWorks Online BPM Community
I had a briefing a couple of weeks ago on IBM BlueWorks by Angel Diaz and Janine Sneed from the BlueWorks team. BlueWorks is IBM’s cloud-based BPM environment, providing the following capabilities:
Browser-based modeling, including strategy maps, capability maps, process maps and BPMN processes.
Pre-built content to supplement or replace a BPM center of excellence (CoE), including [...]
