IBM seeks to ease database burden
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IBM next week will release a major revision of its DB2 database, providing fresh ammunition in the ongoing battle for supremacy in the database marketplace.
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IBM announced the first results of its recently closed&#160;acquisition of business intelligence vendor Cognos, unveiling an array of product offerings and services that tie into its Information on Demand strategy.&quot;We are off and running,&quot; said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM&#39;s software group, during a press conference on Wednesday.IBM&#39;s long-standing partnership with Cognos allowed it to quickly pull together the new products, Mills said. They include a Cognos 8 BI &quot;starter pack&quot; for IBM&#39;s InfoSphere Warehouse; integration of Cognos 8 with IBM&#39;s Information Server data integration platform; templates for linking Cognos 8 with IBM&#39;s BPM (business process management) software, Filenet; and Dashboard Accelerator, for quickly constructing dashboards with Cognos 8, according to a statement.The company also plans to bundle Cognos 8 with its C-Class Balanced Warehouse products, which are aimed at small to medium-sized firms; and has created Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control, which combines a variety of content management and archiving capabilities with IBM storage hardware, as well as compliance monitoring through Cognos&#39; technology, a statement said.Along with the product offerings, IBM announced a number of offerings tailored for verticals and a set of new services.The basic contention of IBM&#39;s IOD push is that future market opportunities lie less in packaged applications, than in optimizing those applications&#39; performance through data management, delivery and analysis.&quot;When we ask customers if they have an information agenda, we get inconsistent answers,&quot; said Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management. &quot;That&#39;s where the real growth is.&quot;Meanwhile, though, rival vendors like SAP and Oracle can align business intelligence with their widely used ERP (enterprise resource planning) offerings. IBM, which doesn&#39;t have an equivalent ERP product, is hardly at a disadvantage, Mills argued. &quot;A typical large company is running 2,000 to 4,000 applications. The brand names are a scatter-gram. Even companies who use a lot of SAP,&quot; he said.Though IBM is building out a sprawling stack of information-related technologies, the company will ensure customers who want even a single tool will be satisfied, Goyal asserted: &quot;We are based on a flexible architecture. You&#39;ll see from us that we&#39;re trying to meet customers in the way they buy.&quot;Enterprise customers suggested Wednesday that their own plans and needs fit into IBM&#39;s strategy.Paul Valle, senior vice president of information technology and CIO at the Papa Gino&#39;s/D&#39;Angelo&#39;s restaurant chain, said his firm has been using Cognos to improve its delivery business by identifying &quot;hot spots&quot; where performance is lagging.But the company now wants to take this a step further, he said: &quot;It&#39;s more than the negative areas, it&#39;s finding the positive areas and pulling it all together. That can only lead to customer satisfaction.&quot;Carl Try, manager of e-commerce and advanced technologies for Fiskars, which makes a range of consumer products, including tools, said the company has been using Cognos to derive meaning from its ERP application data. &quot;Our ERP strategy was really more North America. Now our C-level people want to pull global information,&quot; he said.Fiskars&#39; ultimate goal is not just to collect information from more sources, but to apply even more advanced analytics, he said: &quot;Just imagine, point-of-sale [data] combined with weather information. That&#39;s where we want to go.&quot;IBM&#39;s research work in applied mathematics will result in industry-leading analytics down the road, according to Mills. &quot;You now have all the visualization capability from Cognos, and we will now start to link these things up. ...We see this as a really unique differentiation that IBM is going to bring to the marketplace that quite frankly, no one else is going to be able to match.&quot;The executives declined to name specific figures when asked about the growth Cognos could spark. &quot;When you spend $5 billion, you have high expectations,&quot; Mills said. &quot;With 60 acquisitions under our belt we understand very clearly how to do this. ... we have every confidence we&#39;ll continue that with Cognos.&quot;
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TechWeb - IBM plans to fold the in-memory database vendor into its information management software division. Solid's technology can be used in speeding up business intelligence software.
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IBM on September 17 will ship the first major upgrade to its DB2 Universal Database data management platform in nearly two years, focusing on functional automation, advanced clustering and Web services deployment.
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International Business Machines Corp.  late on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix operating systems that it hopes will help the company take away market share from market leader Oracle Corp. .
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The application server space is heating up once again as both IBM and BEA Systems tout new versions of their platforms. With its Liquid Computing strategy, San Jose, Calif.
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Masala, an add-on to IBM's DB2 database, queries far-flung info sources on company networks.
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MARKHAM, Ont., Sept. 16 - IBM Canada has announced a suite of services to speed the benefits of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial companies and mid-market businesses.
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IBM , the world's largest  technology services company, on Tuesday is announcing new  server computers giving businesses access to computing power  typically used by universities and large corporations.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
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IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL.Solid makes an embedded database with in-memory database engine, which means it can store and retrieve data from main memory, giving faster performance than traditional disk-based systems.That makes it popular for applications that require very fast processing times, such as routing calls in a phone network or trading stocks. Solid&#39;s customers include Cisco Systems, Siemens, TeliaSonera, and Nokia, according to its Web site.IBM agreed to acquire the company for an undisclosed sum and expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2008, IBM announced Friday. It said the deal will enhance its database line-up by adding real-time data access capabilities. IBM rival&#160;Oracle acquired an in-memory database two years ago, from TimesTen.The IBM acquisition may be seen as a setback for MySQL, since it marks the loss of independence of another company that makes a high-performance transaction engine for MySQL&#39;s database.Two years ago&#160;Oracle bought Innobase, which made the most popular MySQL transaction engine. Oracle continues to license InnoDB to MySQL, but the acquisition prompted MySQL to look for alternatives.One of those was Solid, which joined MySQL&#39;s storage engine certification program and released an open source version of its database engine for MySQL. IBM did not say in its statement if it would continue to develop the MySQL product.However, MySQL is also developing its own transaction engine, so in the long term it will be less dependant on partners. Called Falcon,&#160;the engine is due to ship with MySQL 6.0, which is due for wide release late next year.The acquisition of Solid is IBM&#39;s twelfth acquisition this year, it said.&#160;
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International Business Machines  Corp. IBM.N late on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its  database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix operating  systems that it hopes will help the company take away market  share from market leader Oracle Corp. ORCL.O.
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IBM has devised a way to triple the amount of memory stored on computer chips and double the performance of data-hungry processors by replacing a problematic type of memory with a variety that uses much less space on the slice of silicon.
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Buoyed by surging sales of its mainframe computers in recent quarters, IBM is aiming to broaden the use of the powerful machines, particularly in China, the world&#39;s fastest-growing large economy.
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(Source: Oracle)  Today, businesses of all sizes compete head-to-head for customers, suppliers,partners and - importantly - market share of mind. In order to compete successfully with larger, better-equipped organizations, midsize businesses are looking increasingly at the benefits of implementing fail-safe database management and storage systems. This white paper identifies the key decision factors in making the move to a high availability solution, and how clustered database software from Oracle - Oracle Real Application Clusters - provides midsize businesses with a fault-tolerant, scalable and cost-effective solution to their growing needs.
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New York: The US-based software major IBM, along with representatives of the world&#39;s leading science, education and philanthropic outfits, has launched a global effort aimed at harnessing the vast computing power of individuals and business computers and
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IBM Corp. hopes a new effort to simplify programming for mainframe computers helps keep those warhorses competitive.