IBM Buys In-Memory Database Company
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IBM is buying Solid Information Technology, a maker of high-performance databases and a close partner of IBM rival MySQL.
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IBM boosted its software portfolio for small and medium-size businesses with plans announced Friday to acquire Net Integration Technologies, a software vendor in Markham, Canada.Net Integration Technologies, which offers business management tools, will become part of IBM&#39;s Lotus division when the deal closes, which is expected to occur this quarter. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.&quot;We plan to use the technology to go after Microsoft in the small business server market,&quot; said Michael Rhodin, general manager at IBM&#39;s Lotus Software division during a conference call about the acquisition. IBM could use the technology to compete with Microsoft&#39;s Windows Small Business Server, which provides collaboration, e-mail, and communication tools.Founded in 1997, Net Integration Technologies&#39; tools include NitixBlue server software, which the company offers bundled with IBM Lotus Notes client software. The company also builds custom hardware and the Nitix Operating System, which is based on Linux and bundles system management, networking, security, and storage services.When Lotus was acquired by IBM in 1995, it was a great channel company in touch with SMBs, Rhodin said. &quot;Somewhere along the lines, we lost touch with the roots,&quot; he said.The Net Integration Technologies acquisition is also in line with IBM&#39;s process of realigning operations to better define and serve customers. The company recently restructured sales operations and is lining up offerings to match those changes, Rhodin said.IBM did not comment on any potential layoffs or relocation of Net Integration Technologies employees.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has purchased a small, privately held data management company and will use the technology to enhance its SQL Server database, Office, and related business software, the company said Thursday.
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Xmas shopping for in-memory database software IBM announced this morning that it will buy privately-held database software developer Solid Information Technology for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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IBM has agreed to buy Watchfire, a developer of web application security auditing tools, and plans to incorporate it into its Rational business unit.
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IBM yesterday announced plans to buy Consul Risk Management, a compliance and security software company with the bulk of its developers in Herndon -- the third local software firm bought in IBM's recent buying binge.
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IBM has bought XIV, an Israeli manufacturer of SAN (storage area network) equipment. XIV&#39;s main product is Nextra, a storage system based on a grid of standard hardware components.
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China's Lenovo Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire IBM's personal computing division for $1.25 billion in cash and equity, a move expected to transform it into the world's No. 3 PC maker.
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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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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. has opened the public beta program for the next version of its Informix database server and announced plans for a bundled Linux package for smaller businesses. The upgrade to IBM's Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is code-named Cheetah. The final version is due out sometime later this year and will offer new features for application developers, better support for hierarchical data structures and improved query capabilities across multiple instances of the database, IBM announced Thursday. For now, customers and IBM partners can try out a beta version of the software by downloading it here . The company is working with Novell Inc. to offer the database in an "integrated, low-cost" package of hardware and software for small and medium-sized businesses. Due out this year, it will include Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server and an IBM xSeries 3105 server powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Opteron 1000 Series processors, IBM said. Pricing and other details will be announced nearer to its release. IBM acquired Informix's database business in 2001 for about US$1 billion. Customers have praised the company for continuing to develop IDS and for not forcing them onto IBM's flagship DB2 databases. But some users have also been critical that IBM does little to market the software, pushing its DB2 brand instead. IBM said the development of Cheetah shows that IDS continues to be one of its key strategic products. The vendor's promising significant enhancements for application developers, to help get applications up and running quickly and port existing applications to IDS. Cheetah also supports the services-oriented architecture model for application integration, and comes with a new deployment wizard for minimizing the disk space required for a custom install, IBM said. The last major upgrade to IDS, version 10, came out two years ago, in March 2005. Â
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In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) revealed a first-of-its-kind, on-chip memory technology that features the fastest access times ever recorded in eDRAM (embedded dynamic random access memory).
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Oracle said Wednesday that it will finally acquire BEA Systems, an enterprise software maker, for about $8.5 billion in cash. The deal agreement marks an end to a strange, months-long kabuki dance in which Oracle abandoned its first bid and both sides seemed to adopt a hard-line bargaining stance. BEA's board unanimously approved Oracle's offer [...].
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IBM (Quote, Chart) announced Tuesday that it will acquire Venetica to manage access to its DB2 Information Integrator for Content software.
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IBM&#39;s planned purchase of Venetica provides Big Blue with one more piece in its on-demand computing strategy. The challenge will be to seamlessly meld Venetica&#39;s unstructured-data expertise with structured-data management.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. will purchase IBMâs personal computer business for $1.25 billion including $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock plus $500 million of debt assumption.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has launched a major upgrade of its WebSphere flagship middleware product, adding autonomic troubleshooting capabilities and other new features designed to improve performance in the application-server platform.
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InfoWorld - IBM&#160;is looking to add real-time capabilities to its data integration software by buying Canadian firm DataMirror&#160;for about C$170 million(US$162.3 million).