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Big Blue tackles Brownfield Networks
by Norman 
Let’s probe behind yesterday’s announcement that IBM is acquiring Intelliden, a privately-owned technology company more »
Categories: IBM, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Intellident, Tivoli, Networks, network maintenance, network security, audit, compliance Tags: ibm, intellident, merger, network maintenance
17/02/10 07:34:07 am,
17/02/10 07:34:07 am, Cloud in the clouds
by Norman
The announcement that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks, moves the cloud computing/security issue to a totally ne… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Security, attack, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Public cloud, Private cloud, Defence (Defense), Air Force
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm,
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm, HP buys 3Com. A Bid Too Far?
by Norman
That 3Com (http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/index.html ) has yielded to what has seemed the inevitable for a long time now, is unsurprising.
There have been plenty of observers who have questioned its market durability. "Cautious in business, bu… more »
Categories: IBM, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, data centre, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Procurve, 3Com, Huawei Technologies, H3C, Tipping Point Technologies
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm,
12/11/09 02:36:54 pm, Cloud through the Data Center
by Norman
If you’re not IBM or Amazon or Google but a mid-size IT company, how do you ‘sell‘ Cloud computing?
The problem – if it were one – arises from the notion of Cloud computing being a diffuse, amorphous presence within which resides all means of performi… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Microsoft, Google, medium-sized business, data centre, Amazon, Logicalis, EC2, Aps, Azure
09/10/09 02:25:38 pm,
09/10/09 02:25:38 pm, IBM encircling the Cloud
by Norman
Today IBM announces its latest steps in Cloud computing. Followers of this blog - as well as scores of others - will know that this is but one in a regular stream of such announcements.
Why? Because IBM is out to own the Cloud. It may be a softly… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, IBM Global Services, IBM Strategy & Change Services, IBM Testing Services, Public cloud, Private cloud
05/10/09 01:31:24 pm,
05/10/09 01:31:24 pm, Another inevitable consolidation
by Norman
Deep in the heart of Texas, Dell and Perot Systems have come together.
To many there must be a sense of natural fulfillment in seeing Dell go down the same path as HP in acquiring a ready-made advanced services and integration company. But first the… more »
Categories: IBM, Hewlett Packard, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Dell, Perot Systems, EDS, IBM Global Services
21/09/09 01:24:09 pm,
21/09/09 01:24:09 pm, IBM's desktop in the cloud
by Norman
At the end of August, IBM announced it was introducing what it called “the industry's first public desktop cloud service”. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28292.wss
After the usual PR guff about the benefits to Mankind of cloud computi… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Google, SMB, small business, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, distributors, cloud and privacy, Citrix, Wyse, Desktone, VMware
11/09/09 05:35:50 am,
11/09/09 05:35:50 am, Globalisation accelerating not declining
by Norman
Who remembers John Akers? Who remembers Lou Gerstner? Who remembers when IBM nearly failed?
Larry Hirst, chairman of IBM Europe certainly does. He was an assistant to Akers in the early 1990s when IBM, bloated, bureaucratic and ossified came close t… more »
What is this thing called Trust?
by Norman
It’s easy to reach for the dictionary and get a ready-made definition but I’m not bothering. I know that in the real world of IT business, it means two things: Integrity and Competence.
This issue of Trust arose recently in discussion with a major I… more »
data center in a shipping container?
by Norman
Hey, what a great idea! Put a data centre in a shipping container.
Miniaturisation of processing hardware, storage and communications equipment means the hardware will fit. We’ll need good power supplies and aircon. The only other aspect to consid… more »