We’ve come across a number of highly innovative smaller companies over the last couple of years – companies like Aaxana and Racemi who have new approaches to the normal way users implement systems resulting in significantly lower costs. We travelled up to the Royal Exchange in London recently to talk to CEO Ron Bianchini and VP Marketing Rebecca Thompson of Avere – a small storage systems company with a compelling story. We thought it would be interesting for our readers to learn about them. We also want to share some of our sizing of the storage market and look at how Avere’s approach might reduce it.
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ITCandor is very lucky to have been invited along with a couple of other analysts and IBMers to a dinner meeting with Marc Dupaquier, the worldwide head of IBM STG marketing. In fact I’ve attended many key IBM meetings over the last few weeks, including a deep dive on its systems management software approach and dinner with Rod Adkins, which we wrote about recently. I make no apologies for writing about IBM again here, since I know how important getting the views of key industry executives are to our readers. Read more »
I attended an IBM STG systems software group analyst summit in Somers last week. Our hosts took us out to Crabtree’s Kittle House for dinner – a favourite of Bill Clinton’s apparently.
Although he had no formal presentation in the conference itself, STG’s head Rod Adkins came and talked to us for half an hour in transit from one meeting to another. Those of us, like me, who have followed IBM servers for decades have know Rod for a long time and he’s brought a thorough understanding of IBM’s research and market capabilities to his role.
After thanking the analysts for their contributions to IBM’s success, Rod spoke about the attributes of Smarter Computing – a subject we’ve covered here. He also addressed STG’s priorities and talked a little about IBM’s competition. I thought it would be interesting for our readers to learn about his thoughts.
Rod summarised the attributes of Smarter Computing as follows:
We’ve been a bit critical about the choice of the ‘Smarter Computing’ name in the past, so it was fun to hear Rod talk about how they chose it; he raised a laugh by saying his engineering background had led to him to suggest ‘Hybrid Systems’ initially. They had also discussed using ‘Infrastructure’ and other words in their brainstorming. Read more »
