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IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

By Tom Raftery on November 27, 2009

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. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Connect09, ibm, SAFE, smarter planet, Sustainability, water

Numbers, Volume 34

Numbers, Volume 34

By Michael Coté on November 20, 2009

IBM software, Windows 7, Intel vs. AMD, Asian data center growth, cloud.

Posted in Business | Tagged Connect09, Numbers, redmonk

IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 Round-up

IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 Round-up

By Michael Coté on November 19, 2009

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: […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged conferences, Connect09, enterprise software, ibm

Cloud – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

Cloud – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

By Michael Coté on November 19, 2009

IBM finally seems to “get it” when it comes to cloud computing, but do we really want to know what “it” is?

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, Connect09, enterprise software, ibm, Systems Management, tivoli

Systems Interlude, STG Lunch – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

Systems Interlude, STG Lunch – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

By Michael Coté on November 19, 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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged conferences, Connect09, enterprise software, Hardware, ibm, itmanagement, STG, Systems Management, virtualization

Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

By Michael Coté on November 19, 2009

Lotus has come a long way in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Can they keep going?

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Collaborative, Connect09, enterprise software, ibm, Lotus, lotus connections, LotusLive

Afternoon – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

Afternoon – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

By Michael Coté on November 17, 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, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged conferences, Connect09, enterprise software, ibm, itmanagement, Smart Planet

Morning Round-up – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

Morning Round-up – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

By Michael Coté on November 17, 2009

Summary of analytics and image sessions at the IBM analyst event, hopes for the rest of the show.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud Computing, conferences, Connect09, enterprise software, ibm, itmanagement, virtualization | 3 Responses

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