IBM in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Services Briefing, Crown Promenade, Melbourne
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Transformation Roundtable, Otto Ristorante, Sydney
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Services Breakfast, the Establishment (2)
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Services Breakfast, the Establishment (1)

• Converged approach of PureSystems has roots in AS/400

  By Patrick Budmar | 24 May, 2013 13:16

  IBM’s PureSystems has roots its in AS/400 and the failed effort in putting Windows on the POWER Instruction Set Architecture, according to former IBM System i chief scientist, Frank Soltis.

• China trounces US in TOP500 supercomputer race

  By Joab Jackson | 17 June, 2013 07:01

  The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to execute 33.86 petaflops, or 33.86 thousand trillion floating point operations per second.

• IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer

  By Joab Jackson | 14 June, 2013 16:53

  In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better suited for running large in-memory data analysis jobs.

• IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Services Briefing, Crown Promenade, Melbourne

  By Mike Gee | 14 June, 2013 11:32

  More than 85 industry thought leaders packed the ARN Cloud Services Briefing at the Crown Promenade in Melbourne, to hear addresses by Longhaus managing director and senior industry analyst, Peter Carr, and IBM A/NZ Global Business Service Cloud sales lead, Martin Stubbs-Race. The full-house also enjoyed breakout sessions after the main event, which was hosted by ARN's Rimin Dutt. The ARN Cloud Services Briefing was sponsored by IBM. An ARN Cloud Services Breakfast was held in Sydney a week earlier.

• IN PICTURES: ARN Cloud Transformation Roundtable, Otto Ristorante, Sydney

  By Mike Gee | 14 June, 2013 11:17

  As Cloud adoption continues to grow among Australian business, many resellers are faced with a myriad options and challenges with how to best capitalise on the opportunity. Services and solutions are fast emerging as key tools to address the growing demand for Cloud products, driven by a need for more flexible work options, and an increasingly agile and mobile workforce.As a result, many traditional channel partners are looking to transform their business models as well.This event looked at opportunities and challenges present in how channel partners can best adapt their revenue models to take advantage of this changing business dynamic, and transition their revenue models from lumpy projects to smoother annuity models, adjusting for potential changes in cost and profitability models. This roundtable was sponsored by Adobe.

• Happy Father's Day to my dad, the hobbyist programmer

  By Jon Gold | 13 June, 2013 20:54

  I found out recently that I'm not the only member of my family to appear in the illustrious pages of the IDG family of publications, of which Network World is one. In 1983, sister site InfoWorld reviewed my dad's Home Finance System – a personal accounting program that competed (albeit briefly) with Quicken – and I happened to stumble across the article via a Google Books search. (It's on page 31. Apparently, InfoWorld liked it.)

• IBM in new round of layoffs

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 June, 2013 10:43

  IBM has cut about 1300 employees and more layoffs are possible, according to an employee organisation.

• HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems

  By Joab Jackson | 12 June, 2013 19:53

  On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems.

• Hitachi GST CEO claims hard drive future hangs in Cloud

  By Lucas Mearian | 02 September, 2011 07:16

  In March, Western Digital agreed to buy Hitachi Global Storage Technologies> (HGST), the disk drive subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., in a stock and cash transaction valued at $US4.3 billion. HGST CEO Steve Milligan will join WD as president at the closing of the deal, expected in the fourth quarter.

• IBM's Steve Mills talks Oracle, Watson's future

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 June, 2011 02:28

  IBM's Steve Mills has long been known for his leadership of the company's software division, but last year he added hardware and systems to his responsibilities as well. That move put Mills in charge of 100,000 employees and products that generate US$40 billion in revenue for IBM, according to its website.

• Contract attorney offers tips in case of IBM-Sun merger

  By Don Tennant | 26 March, 2009 07:50

  Diana McKenzie, head of the information technology practice at Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, has specialized in IT contract law since 1987. On Monday, she spoke with Computerworld about what customers of IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. need to know about contract law as IBM pursues its reported US$6.5 billion bid to acquire Sun.

• IBM: Leading the sustainability push

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 09 December, 2008 08:00

  Big companies carry big responsibilities in leading the green push in IT. And that responsibility is something IBM takes very seriously.

• Salesforce.com aims for next $1 billion business with ExactTarget buy

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 June, 2013 15:58

  Salesforce.com's pending US$2.5 billion purchase of marketing software vendor ExactTarget will help it develop a new $1 billion annual revenue stream and set the company on a clear strategic course for the foreseeable future, according to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.

• Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

  By Christine Burns | 03 June, 2013 11:17

  OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.

• Smacking SharePoint into shape

  By Todd R. Weiss | 29 May, 2013 11:23

  More than half of all SharePoint shops have had to add functionality to the core software, which came as a surprise to a number of them. Here's what they're doing.

• What to expect at SAP's Sapphire

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 May, 2013 17:32

  SAP's Sapphire conference kicks off next week in Orlando, setting the stage for the company to sell customers on its visions for cloud-based applications, in-memory computing and mobility.

• BMC going private could be the right move at the right time

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 May, 2013 19:57

  BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.

• Opinion: Why Apple won't be around as long as IBM

  By Rob Enderle | 03 May, 2013 16:39

  IBM is 102 years old. At its height, it was almost a cult, with employees dressing alike, speaking a unique language and earning benefits that took care of them for life. Today's tech companies aren't built to last, as Apple's recent earnings report shows all too well.

• What IBM's x86 exit may mean for rivals

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 19 April, 2013 18:32

  IBM's reported interest in selling parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo may bring major changes to the global market.

• Cloud computing's big debt to NASA

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 08 March, 2013 11:08

  IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.