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IBM Named Worldwide Marketshare Leader in Social Platforms Software

The IDC report states that worldwide revenue for the social platforms market was $369.7 million in 2009, representing growth of more than 55 percent

July 2, 2010 – IBM's portfolio of social computing, mashups and Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, communities, profiles, activities, shared bookmarks and more, can help organizations of all sizes work smarter, become more agile, and foster innovation. (finance.yahoo.com)

Announcements

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3889471/IBM-Rolls-Out-Business-Intelligence-Platform-for-Traders.htm

IBM debuted its latest industry-specific, pre-packaged software platform to help speed the execution and analysis of high-speed securities trading for the financial-services market. (earthweb.com)

IBM to Buy BigFix in Push for Smarter Data Centers

July 1, 2010 –

– IBM has agreed to buy systems management vendor BigFix for an undisclosed sum. The move brings BigFix’s IT management technology into IBM’s fold, bolstering its configuration and compliance management capabilities and building on an existing partnership between the two companies. (eweek.com)

IBM: Tiered mobile data pricing here to stay

June 2, 2010 –

IBM Global Business Services says that as IP-based high-speed mobile data standards such as LTE and WiMAX spread more broadly throughout the world, carriers will give up trying to stop over-the-top providers such as Skype from riding over their pipes and will eventually "enter into formal partnerships" with them. (computerworld.com)

IBM Survey: Operators must rethink business models

July 8, 2010 –

A new study from IBM shows that service provider executives are in general feeling positive about the current state of telecom. But consumers’ responses to survey questions could be a warning that prosperity is tenuous and new business models need to be figured out very soon." (connectedplanetonline.com)

IBM, EU Collaborate on Cloud Computing Project

July 7, 2010 –

The work group's mission is to help businesses understand the nature, structure and business purposes of cloud systems and to enable them to use "e-services"—aka cloud-based services—to smooth out tricky IT-related business processes. (eweek.com)

IBM Makes Firefox Default Browser

July 2, 2010 –

IBM believes Firefox will be particularly useful as the company increases its use of cloud computing. "For the shift to the cloud to be successful, open standards must be used in the infrastructure, in the applications, and in the way people exchange data," Sutor said. (informationweek.com)

Blogs, Events and Communities

IBM's Transformation--From Survival To Success

July 7, 2010 –

"Nine out of 10 IBM employees now focus on developing, producing and delivering high-value solutions for our clients rather than servicing the internal workings of IBM. And operating as a global business means that even our teams in small growth markets can tap IBM's talent pool to deliver value for their clients. ” (forbes.com)

IBM Reinvents the Mainframe

July 5, 2010 –

"Sources say it's ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core z processor with two times the cache of the old z10 chip and a hundred new instructions, built a new z196 system round it, stuck it in a chassis, otherwise called a cage, added a BladeCenter Extension – Power7.” (sys-con.com)

IBM believes in commoditised HPC for BI

June 30, 2010 –

"While BI at the desktop has been a success, IBM points to the fact that it has some serious shortcomings. One of these is "versions of the truth". The issue here is that users can often be working off of the same dataset at different points in time.?" (computerweekly.com)

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