Multi-tenancy and the Mainframe
People often say that cloud computing is just a reinvention of the service bureaus of old. Rather than being a forward advance, they suggest that accessing all our applications and data from vast, centralized cloud platforms is a lurch backwards to the time-honored mainframe model of computing. But perhaps instead cloud computing will force a […]
IBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….
It was hard to decide where to look first in Las Vegas this year at IBM’s flagship information management event. Coming as it did on the heels of a massive, sprawling Oracle Open World, it was also overwhelming, but distinguished itself immediately by its focus. Whereas Oracle has smashed together hardware systems, apps, middleware, java […]
IBM Acquires Netezza – ADBMS Consolidation Heats Up
IBM’s bid to acquire Netezza makes it official; the insurgents are at the gates. A pioneering and leading ADBMS player, Netezza is in play for approximately $1.7 billion or 6 times earnings. When it entered the market in 2001, it catalyzed an economic and architectural shift with an appliance form factor at a dramatically different […]
IBM zEnterprise and The Reintegration of Everything.
IBM’s just launched its new zEnterprise server at a very interesting time for the market. So interesting in fact that’s its very hard indeed to sum up all the swirls and currents currently roiling enterprise IT. Cloud (public and private), consumerisation of IT, Big Data, devops, NoSQL and did I remember to say… cloud? IBM […]
IBM’s New zEnterprise – Quick Analysis
A new mainframe that pulls in Unix and Linux servers – does it prevent enough IT mess to move from x86?
