IBM is short for International Business Machines. The global technology company was the largest information technology company in the world for most of its history. Though IBM sold its personal computing division to Lenovo in 2005, the company remains a powerhouse when it comes to business technology and consulting. Nicknamed "Big Blue," IBM is well known for its involvement in open source software development. IBM's products include its WebSphere Application Server and its Tivoli service management offerings.
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A Smarter Way to Work: Automating Decisions Through Business Process and Rules Management
Follow the subject of Business Process Management (BPM) for a while and you will be told repeatedly that BPM delivers considerable competitive advantage, especially in terms of cost, agility and efficiency. This is true, but it does so to a far greater degree today than ever before.... More >
What's Different About the CIO Job?
IBM recently concluded that in order to be successful, a CIO does three things: Make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT, and enhance the business impact [of IT]. In order to accomplish these goals, the successful CIO simultaneously executes on three pairs of contradictory actions and skills. They... More >
The Evolving Market for Cloud Integration
Margaret Dawson, vice president of marketing and product management for Hubspan , explains what Hubspan offers and the market for integration offered through the cloud with IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson. Lawson : What does Hubspan offer? Are you an integration-as-a-service provider? ... More >
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual Experience
This interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
IBM Offers BI Application Service
IBM is making use of its Cognos acquisition to offer the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud . Our CTO Edge site reports that the BI application service will allow customers: to roll out an implementation of Cognos 8 running on top of virtual machine software running on top of a Linux operating system hosted on an IBM... More >
IBM Offers Virtualization Security
IBM's new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software is built for VMware's vSphere platform for data center virtualization. The offering secures everything from the hypervisor to the operating system to data... More >
AMD Takes Lead in the Supercomputer Race
The Top500 Organization has crowned Oak Ridge National Laboratory's AMD-powered "Jaguar" system the world's top supercomputer. The upgraded Cray XT5 consists of six-core AMD Opteron processors that supply 2.3 petaflops per second of theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflops per second performance on the... More >
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