Smarter Computing: An Agenda For (Re)Packaging IBM Software and Systems in the Age of The Cloud.
Late last year IBM Software Group (SWG) “acquired” IBM Systems and Technology (STG) group – with software head honcho Steve Mills taking over management of the combined group. The move had been coming for a while, and the parallels with Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems last year are clear. The market is showing a new [...]
Innovation at the IBM Smarter Industries Symposium
Photo credit Tom Raftery I attended the inaugural IBM Smarter industries Symposium recently and the major talking point that emerged from it was Innovation. The event was a nice mix of presentations by IBMers, customers and “breakout exchanges” with a healthy mix of both. Almost all of the speakers talked about the increasing complexity of [...]
IBM Impact: Saturday night thoughts
I am in Las Vegas for IBM Impact 2010- Big Blue’s business alignment/middleware event. Why am I missing a bank holiday weekend for a tech show? Because this is one of the most important events of the year- if you’re an enterprisey geek, that is. IBM is a major Redmonk client, and I have been [...]
Rich Lechner talks about Smart Buildings and a Smarter Urban Infrastructure
I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with [...]
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. [...]
