IBM: Boring, but Safe?
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The tech giant's stock languishes, even as the company delivers solid growth.
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I got an interesting teaser in the e-mail this week: âStudy Suggests Nearly Half of All Leaders See a Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution.â I wonât say who sent it because they blew the execution: The so-called study wasnât posted anywhere online, and when I called the number, theyâd already left for the weekend.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Division of labour IBM is rejigging its hardware business around customer types, rather than by product, according to an internal memo obtained by the AP.â¦
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IBM announced today that it was driving the initiative to use the worlds vast untapped computer power for useful things (like playing games and shopping online isn&#39;t useful!
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IBM is hitting an all-time low -- for itself, that is -- in the storage market with a new series of entry-level arrays. The new arrays, including its first iSCSI array and an entry-level Fibre Channel model
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The software company continues to deliver boring-but-beautiful outperformance.
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Big Blue --a white knight? It&#39;s easy to see how industry watchers got carried away with speculation that IBM (IBM ) might be riding to rescue of beleaguered PeopleSoft (PSFT ). On Sept.
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Is the chip giant bargain-shopping or just wasting money?
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InfoWorld - IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art datacenters running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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The IBM scientist who developed a method of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains describes the process and why it's geared toward protecting business resources, not consumer privacy.
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IBM&#39;s business workhorse notebook gets a fingerprint reader and an upgraded suite of security tools. We take a first look. IBM&#39;s &#39;thin-and-light&#39; ThinkPad T42 already offers one of the most complete security solutions available on a notebook.
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L takes the top prize, proving it&#39;s not the size of your computer, but the number of teraflops. In the computing drag-race, IBM&#39;s new Blue Gene/L is greased lightning.
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In personal finance, boring is not bad. Sometimes boring is good.
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36.01 Teraflops. Yeah, that&#39;ll just about do it. What &quot;it&quot; is, I don&#39;t know, but I&#39;m sure the well dressed geeks at IBM are blue with pride after their BlueGene/L computer surpassed the speed of NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) was the company that made the personal computer a legitimate business tool, and during the formative years of the PC industry, its products set the standard.
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There was a time when EMC was considered a rather staid tech company in a boring, if profitable market: storage. No longer. With regulations bearing down on enterprises, EMC is now a major player in areas such as security and content management.