Africa has much potential for ITC business over the next few years. Read ITCandor's assessment of IBM STG's position to take advantage. Read more »
IBM And VMware Find Common Ground In Storage And Server Hypervising
IBM and VMware work together on storage and server hypervisors, addressing advanced virtualisation issues for enterprise customers. Read ITCandor's analysis. Read more »
‘Storage Hypervisors’ – IBM Proposes A New Industry Term
ITCandor enters the debate on storage hyperisors proposed by IBM. Read more »
IBM’s Sean Finnan – CIOs, Country Demand And Cloud Computing
ITCandor reports an interesting conversatioin with IBM's Sean Finnan, VP and GM of GTS in its NE IOT. Read more »
IBM’s Cloud Computing Reference Model – Customer-Focused And Clear
IBM has published its Cloud Computing reference model, which encompasses the infrastructure from which it provides customers with CLoud services. Read ITCandor's detailed analysis. Read more »
IBM Targets HP Itanium/Oracle Users With Multiple Campaigns And Resources
IBM is targeting users of HP Itanium servers and Oracle databases with significant resources, taking part in a competitive battle reminiscent of the 1990s. Read ITCandor's analysis of how this fits with market developments. Read more »
IBM’s STG Marketing Head Marc Dupaquier On IT Consumerism, Generation Y And Cloud Computing
ITCandor discussed the current market with IBM STG's marketing head Marc Dupaquier. Read our ake on his views about IT consumerism, Smart Computing and the Cloud. Read more »
LV 1871 Uses IBM Virtualisation For Consolidation, Cost Savings And Productivity Improvement
LV 1871 is a medium sized mutual insurer based in Munich. It has implemented virtualisation in its data centre, achieving performance, quality and cost benefits. Read ITCandor's analysis of its strategy. Read more »
IBM STG’s Rod Adkins On Smarter Computing, Cloud And The Competition
A small bunch of analysts were lucky enough to have dinner on IBM at Crabtree's Kittle House last week and to be addressed by Rob Adkins, head of STG. Read our take on what he said about the competition, Cloud and Smarter Computing. Read more »
IBM Global Services Launches Building Block Outsourcing – A Bridge To Cloud Computing
IBM announced a new building block approach to its outsourcing business today. Read ITCandor's analysis of the implications, comparisons and chances for success. Read more »
IBM Smarter Computing – ‘Big Data In Optimized Systems, Managed As A Cloud’
IBM is ahead of other vendors when it comes to understanding the linkeage between workloads and servers and is learning how to integrate its hardware, software and services into new types of computer. Read ITCandor's analysis of how it is expanding its definition of the system in what it terms 'Smarter Computing'. Read more »
IBM System Z Mips Shows Increased Centralisation And A Return To Growth
ITCandor publishes its initial Mips Model for IBM System z mainframes. It will help you understand how this server business is developing over time. Read more »
IBM And Red Hat Talk Up KVM, Linux And Cloud
KVM is an important hypervisor and will compete storngly with VMWare and Microsoft now it has been incorporated in Red Hat's RHEV product. Read this report about IBM and Red Hat's promotion of Linux and KVM, as well as ITCandor's views of the state of Open Source software. Read more »
IBM Expands Its Cloud Computing Offerings – Highlights The Differences In Regional Adoption
On March 16th 2010 IBM announced new Cloud Computing services and resources. ITCandor analyses what they mean in terms of the development of this important market. Read more »
IBM Buys Initiate Systems – Increases Focus On HealthCare, SaaS And Information Management
IBM announced its acquisition of Initiate Systems. Martin analysis what it's buying and why. Read more »
IBM System X – An Integrated x86 Approach From The Fullest Range Vendor
IBM invited a number of analysts over to Avenet's office to discuss System x. Martin's written it up, adding data from his own research. Read more »
IBM – Interpreting Its Gamut Of Cloud Computing Offerings
IBM announced its Cloud Computing strategy on June 16th 2009. In this piece Martin looks at how IBM is approaching the subject and what kinds of customers it is targeting. Read more »
IBM’s Q109 Results – The Benefits Of Big Customers and Long Contracts
Martin analyses IBM's latest financial results and concludes that its relative success is down to its customer and contract types. Outsourcing, cloud computing and CSR get a look in too. Read more »