IBM Exec Receives High Honor
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By Julie Fishman-Lapin, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 2--Growing up in Florida, Rodney Adkins often spent free time dismantling his family's television or radio, or even his mother's vacuum cleaner.
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Executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world&#39;s fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36.
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TechWeb - Hired from IBM, CEO-elect John Swainson plans to move fast, without mimicking the software or services strategy of his former employer.
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Jeffrey Nick, an IBM veteran who helped design the company's on-demand computing initiative and led its grid computing strategy, has been named EMC's new CTO.
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The world's richest man got a raise last year. Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, earned &#36;901,667 in Microsoft's 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from a year ago.
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EMC Corp., the data storage company, named a former executive from rival IBM Corp. on Friday as its chief technology officer.
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By Frauenheim, Ed  IBM PEOPLE CHIEF RANDY MACDONALD TAKES THE COMPUTER GIANT'S RENOWNED EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN A NEW DIRECTION. By Ed Frauenheim A Workforce Management  Q & A  Big Blue is making big moves on the leadership front.
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Computer giant IBM said its fourth-quarter profit rose 12.2 percent from a year ago to 2.7 billion dollars, topping most Wall Street forecasts.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Computer Associates, the beleaguered maker of corporate software, will tap a longtime IBM executive as its new chief, according to a published report Monday.
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Analyst firm IDC has named IBM (NYSE: IBM) an industry leader for independent software vendor (ISV) programs across the areas of marketing, technical, and sales support.
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JP Morgan Chase president and chief operating officer Jamie Dimon believes technology is better done in-house. By Paul McDougall. Executives at IBM Global Services must have cringed earlier this year upon hearing
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Bob Carrigan, Chairman of the Computerworld Honors Program Chairmen's  Committee and President of IDG Communications, has announced that  William P. Brennan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Forsythe  Solutions Group, Inc., has joined its prestigious Chairmen's  Committee.
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As president of a Dutch business school, Neelie Kroes once awarded former Microsoft chief Bill Gates an honorary degree. But as the European Union's top antitrust cop, she has fined his company millions.
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Troubled business software company Computer Associates International Inc. reportedly has selected longtime IBM executive John Swainson as its new chief executive.
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The European Union's incoming antitrust chief said Friday she thought Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was doing a "good job" when she awarded him an honorary degree eight years ago as head of a Dutch business school.
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(InfoWorld) - Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBMâs heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early work in scalable databases that laid the technology groundwork for DB2, then led the research effort to create the Deep Blue chess computer. In 1996, Goyal was elevated to be vice president, servers and software, and director, computer sciences, where he set IBMâs long-term research direction and oversaw the work of 1,500 researchers worldwide. Now, as general manager of information management in the IBM Software Group, Goyal ensures the success of IBMâs Information On Demand initiative and its constellation of products. But in a recent interview with InfoWorld Executive Editor at Large Eric Knorr, Goyal still sounded like a scientist, expounding on the nature of information vs. data and the unique position IBMâs new Information Server occupies in the history of computing. InfoWorld: Consolidating, reconciling, and delivering information strikes me as one of the most difficult problems in IT.                                                     AmbujGoyal: This problem has existed for 20 years. When I was doing the announcement for Information Server last October, I talked about an inflection point that has come in information management. This is similar to an inflection point that occurred in 1996 when there were many techniques to create Web sites or do Web-based business: Java Virtual Machines, HTTP servers, commerce engines. There were many different techniques. A few companies created a concept called a Web application server, IBMâs being WebSphere. So if you wanted to leverage Web technologies to improve your business or do Web programming, you just get started with a Web application server. We are at a similar inflection point in 2006. We have myriads of techniques â metadata management, ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) tools, data creation tools, Federation tools, cleansing tools, profiling tools. People use these tools to solve the information challenge. The application server had a foundation, which was JVM. Information Server now has a foundation, which is a metadata repository, or metadata bus. And we have restructured all the tools to come up with an information server, so companies donât need to decide whether they need this piece of technology or that piece of technology. They have an information challenge â they just start with an information server. IW: What about the skills to work with an information server? It seems a little difficult to find people who understand this area. Is that a problem in the market now? AG: It actually simplifies the problem because people were doing manual stuff around metadata. So what we have done is helped the business user say, âThis is how I define my customer and attributes of that customer.â They can talk business language. And then an information architect, who typically used to do ETL or SQL, can take the same business language and convert it into an appropriate information infrastructure programming tool. In the past they could never do that, and governance became a huge problem. The businessperson really meant X, and the information architect implemented Y. IW: But in all of these solutions, somebody is still sitting down in a meeting room, going through the incredibly tedious task of saying, âOK, weâre going to use this field and not that field, weâll express this value this way and not that way.â AG: Right, but our view is, over decades, this is how software and middleware have evolved. There was tedious work going on connecting system A to system B. You repeated it over and over again. Then out came a product that is an outgrowth of a repeated piece of work captured into a software product. In the late â90s, people used to use the WebSphere application server and would build customer portals. Many customers built and said, âLook, this is a waste of time. I would just like to have the base infrastructure to be able to do that.â So portals as a category evolved. We believe that people are still doing tedious work when dealing with information. Information Server and its tools are converting that tedious work into an information server category. Even analysts are starting to talk about this as a category because it is solving that tedious work, and tedious work has always resulted in a new category of software.