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IBM Fishes For Managed Service Providers; Nice Bait

October 1, 2012 Dan Burger

Managed service providers (MSPs) are lined up like suitcases at the baggage claim. Their destination is the small to midsize market. For years, IBM and the rest of the IT giants have searched for ways to crack that market, without a great deal of success. Managed services, via the cloud, are their best opportunity to date. Another indicator that managed service providers are gearing up for a coming change in IT buying behavior is IBM latest program designed for expanding its MSP network. Central to this program are two of Big Blue’s favorite topics: SmartCloud and PureSystems.

IBM claims there

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Trial Date Set in Vision-Maxava Case

October 1, 2012 Alex Woodie

An April trial date has been set in the false advertising and trade libel case that IBM i high availability software maker Maxava brought against its rival Vision Solutions and the reseller Sirius Computer Solutions. A jury in a Los Angeles courtroom will decide the case next spring–unless the two sides agree to a settlement or the trial is delayed once more.

Maxava and Vision have been going at it since December 2009, when Maxava filed its false advertising lawsuit in U.S. District Court Central District of California Western Division, based in Los Angeles. Maxava (which at that time

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External Disk Array Sales Slow Down A Bit

October 1, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The use of internal disk arrays inside of database, data warehousing, and Hadoop data munching clusters seems to be having an effect on sales of external disk array sales. Maybe.

In the second quarter, according to Gartner, external controller-based disk arrays (meaning they have their own brains instead of relying on controllers under the skins of the servers that the arrays attach to) accounted for $5.5 billion in revenues, up 6.7 percent and marking the eleventh quarter in a row that external disk array sales have gone up. However, Gartner was expecting for 7.9 percent growth and around $62

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Jack Henry Busts Through $1 Billion Barrier In Fiscal 2012

October 1, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Banking software and payment processing service Jack Henry and Associates has pumped up its sales to above $1 billion for the latest fiscal year just ended, the first time the company has hit that sales level and almost assuring that someone–Oracle, Infor, or even Microsoft–is going to try to try to buy the company.

But Jack Henry has done just fine on its own, thank you very much. In the fiscal 2012 year ended on June 30, the software and service provider that specializes in sales to small and regional banks, booked $1.03 billion in sales,

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IBM’s Rometty Takes Over As Chairman Of The Board

October 1, 2012 Jenny Thomas

It hasn’t quite been a year since IBM tapped Virginia M. Rometty as president and chief executive officer, and now comes the announcement from IBM’s board of directors that Rometty will take over as chairman of the board, effective October 1, 2012. Rometty succeeds Sam Palmisano, who will stay on as a senior adviser to the company until he retires on December 1, 2012. So as of today, Rometty is driving the Big Blue bus.

IBM CEO, president, and newly appointed chairman of the board, Ginni Rometty.

There is no doubt that Rometty, 55, is ready to take the wheel.

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Mad Dog 21/21: Shamoon And Six Trends

October 1, 2012 Hesh Wiener

In a lengthy study published in September, IBM says vendors and users have done a pretty good job tackling computer security problems lately, despite some persistently festering issues. The report deals with threats to user organizations that arrive via the Internet. This was unfortunate because sabotage had just become a very hot topic in security circles. In August, destructive malware called Shamoon trashed 30,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco and an unspecified number of client systems at Qatar’s Rasgas. The vector was most likely a flash drive carried by an insider, not a website or email.

IBM’s star-crossed (or perhaps Shamoon-crossed)

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Arming The IBM i Nation

October 1, 2012 Dan Burger

It could happen to you. Like a sucker punch from the president of your company, one day you get the word the IBM midrange system is being replaced. And before you can even ask–“How could this happen?”–you’re flat on your back seeing stars. You should have seen this coming. The murmurs about old technology unable to solve modern business problems, inaccessible silos of information, and the surge of the Window/Unix manifest destiny have been heard for years.

Just like ignorance of the law isn’t going to get you off the hook for a speeding ticket, claiming you didn’t notice other

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iBelieve NY: If You Don’t Like Change. . .

October 1, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are trying to get to the future, you can’t always be looking over your shoulder at the past. You have to keep your eyes on the road ahead. And if any message was clear at the iBelieve event hosted by looksoftware last Thursday in my hometown of New York City, it is that we can celebrate our long history but we have to keep moving, keep learning, keep changing, and keep pace with modern technologies like the IBM i platform itself has managed to do. And perhaps with a lot more grace than the humans who program and

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Oak Bank Looks to Grow with New Fiserv Banking System

September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

Oak Bank plans to grow its business thanks to a new core banking system and a range of add-ons from Fiserv. The Chicago bank chose Premiere, a powerful IBM i application that will form the foundation for a digital banking overhaul that should improve the way customers interact with the $218 million institution.

Fiserv sells core banking systems that run on a variety of platforms, including IBM i, AIX, Windows, and IBM zSeries and the Unisys Clearpath mainframes. But it’s Premiere, which was ported from the Unisys platform to i5/OS (the old name for IBM i) in 2004, that

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TMW Hooks IES Suite to Rand McNally Trucking Devices

September 25, 2012 Alex Woodie

TMW Systems, the trucking software company that’s being acquired by Trimble, announced a new release of its IBM i-based Innovative IES suite that’s pre-integrated to work with in-cab computing systems manufactured by Rand McNally.

Innovative IES R9.5 brings out-of-the-box integration with two Rand McNally devices designed to keep truckers in communication with their dispatchers, including the TND 760 and TPC 7600.

The TND 760 is a small computer that includes a GPS receiver, cellular and WiFi cards, and a color display. It provides access to a range of software and electronic services, including Rand McNally’s IntelliRoute GPS

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