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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
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What Price Innovation? 05/11/2007 13:44:31
CIOs say they want more than the traditional “your mess for less” relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn’t it happening?CIOs say they want more than the traditional "your mess for less" relationship with their outsourcing providers. And the providers want to market themselves as partners in innovation. So why isn't it happening? - +
Hiring Manager: Emphasize Integrity, Attitude 14/12/2007 11:18:07
William Howell shares his hiring mistakes and his secrets for selecting the best job candidates, finding objective references and using LinkedIn as a recruiting tool.William Howell shares his hiring mistakes and his secrets for selecting the best job candidates, finding objective references and using LinkedIn as a recruiting tool. - +
How to Get Real About Strategic Planning 04/02/2008 12:50:59
Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such - +
Order Takers to Innovators 02/10/2007 15:20:08
How four CIOs energized their staffs to take risks with new technology and generate fresh value for their businessesWhen David Behen became IT director for Washtenaw County, Michigan, the department was little more than an order-taker. And not a very good one. It was kind of like the waiter who makes you wait, then brings the entree with the mains and brings you a bottle of Grange when you asked for a carafe of the house red
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IBM is extending its support for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to cover more of its x86 servers and blades, the two vendors announced Thursday.
Under the agreement, IBM will distribute Solaris OS and Solaris Subscriptions for some of its System x servers and BladeCenter blade servers. The servers include BladeCenter HS21 and LS41 servers as well as IBM System x3650, System x3755, and System x3850 servers.
IBM already supported Sun's flavor of Unix on some of its BladeCenter servers, but it wasn't a formal relationship.
The move is part of IBM's strategy to offer users a range of operating systems and Sun's desire to have Solaris run on a wider set of hardware. IBM has its own AIX flavor of Unix and also supports Microsoft's Windows operating system and Red Hat's and Novell's Suse distributions of the open-source Linux operating system.
Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun, described the new partnership as a "tectonic shift" in the marketplace.
IBM and Sun have long been strong and aggressive competitors in terms of both the server and Unix operating systems markets. Both Schwartz and Bill Zeitler, senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, were keen to emphasize that the tie-up shouldn't be seen as either party giving up on their respective products.
"I don't see a single operating system as being the choice," Zeitler said. "Customers and markets make choices. Mature vendors react by responding to those requirements." While IBM continues to invest in AIX and sees it as an "excellent, highly scalable and reliable offering," the vendor is also a pragmatist, he added. "A lot of customers love Solaris and are loyal to it."
Under the terms of the formal agreement between the two companies, IBM becomes a distributor and reseller of Solaris, the only leading hardware vendor, other than Sun, to have that capability. While IBM will distribute Solaris, Sun will provide support for the operating system.
"I can tell you our deal with HP is arms-length," Schwartz said of an existing relationship with Hewlett-Packard Co. around Solaris running on HP's ProLiant servers. "They're not an OEM. Our relationship with IBM is really the strongest with any partner in the marketplace and will hopefully set the tone for other relationships. IBM stands alone," he added. Schwartz wouldn't be drawn on whether Sun is in talks with Dell Inc. about having Dell servers support Solaris.
"I'm very proud to be the first of the Tier 1 vendors who will have an agreement with Sun like this," Zeitler said. "I imagine we're not the last, but I'm pleased we're the first."
Schwartz pointed to other earlier collaborations between IBM and Sun, notably around evangelizing Sun's Java technology. He's hopeful that the new Solaris deal could be as significant. "There's a great swath of opportunity ahead of us, running from the applications layer down into the infrastructure," he said, with Solaris support for IBM provisioning and the vendor's Director systems management software a likely future area for collaboration.
As part of their agreement, Sun and IBM are collaborating on driver and system optimization work as well as the testing of Solaris on x and BladeCenter servers, according to Zeitler. He expects that work to be complete within the next 90 days and at that point IBM will be able to formally offer customers the Sun OS running on those machines.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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