• Imtech Buys Reseller Real Solutions for U.K. Expansion

  June 9, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For all the intense competition in the server and storage space, it is still a pretty good business that, despite the technical training required and tough sales environment, yields plenty of profits for many of the players who peddle IT gear. Of course, the bigger the reseller, the better, since size usually brings breadth as well as depth of coverage. And that is why Dutch IT, communications, and engineering conglomerate Imtech has decided to buy Real Solutions, an IBM systems resellers that has a large presence in the United Kingdom. Real Solutions, for you students of IT history, was

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• NOAA Predicts the 2008 Hurricane Season to Be an Active One

  June 9, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  In case you haven’t noticed, the global economy is about as crazy as the world climate and the state of the Internet. That’s probably a coincidence, even if it might not feel like it. The Western economies are under pressure thanks to financial shenanigans and the price of energy while Eastern economies are exploding as they have become the manufacturing engines for the world; the Internet is a collection of tens of millions of servers, just this side of controlled chaos and doing great things for us personally as well as for our employers. But the Internet is rife with

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• Enterprise Computing Opens Students’ Eyes to i and z at FDU

  June 9, 2008 Dan Burger

  Science and technology are recognized as drivers of economic growth, and undoubtedly both will have an increasing role in the future. Certainly individuals will prosper in proportion to their scientific, technological, and engineering talents and we would expect those with computer science and information systems degrees to have excellent career opportunities. How does IBM‘s Power Systems machinery running the i platform fit into this view of the future? “I talk to people with all different types of systems, and the impression I have is that people expect the System i and the System z to hold their own or

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• nuBridges Partners with Accellion for Secure File Transfers

  June 9, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Back in the old days of computing, before there was Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, HIPAA, and similar regulations that compel companies in various industries or of various persuasions (SOX is about being public) to comply with those regulations that restrict access to systems, files, and data, it was no big deal if system administrators, programmers, and even end users had FTP access to systems. Those days are gone. And that is why Accellion, a security appliance company that was founded in 1999 in Palo Alto, California, has created a set of eponymous appliances that seek to get employees out of

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• Vormittag Associates Partners with 360 Vertical in Food Industry

  June 9, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Midrange ERP software maker Vormittag Associates, of Ronkonkoma, New York, last week announced that it has tapped 360 Vertical Solutions, a specialist in the food services industry, to be a partner to peddle VAI’s S2K Enterprise for Food Distribution software for the i platform. 360 Vertical Solutions is based in Columbus, Georgia, and is an IBM and Intuit business partner, the former gave the company access to and expertise with IBM’s servers (including the System i and Power Systems) and the latter provided expertise in deploying QuickBooks Enterprise on Windows platforms. VAI is, of course, the maker and

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• Recent Acquisitions Helping the BOS Cause

  June 9, 2008 Dan Burger

  Energized by the successful acquisitions of two companies specializing in RFID solutions Better Online Solutions (BOS) posted hefty increases in both revenue and sales during the first quarter of 2008. At the October 2007 announcement that his company was purchasing Summit Radio, Shmuel Koren, president and chief executive officer of BOS, called the acquisition “an important addition to BOS’ international activities, especially in the United States.” He wasn’t wrong. He went on to describe Summit’s business as “highly synergetic with the business of our supply chain division” and viewed it as a pathway to “expand supply-chain sales to major international

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• More Power Transitions Are on the Way

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  The ink is not dry on the latest round of Power6-based Power Systems servers and IBM, its reseller and distributor partners, and soon its customers are already thinking about the next and final transitions coming to the converged Power Systems product line. Even though IBM has, for all practical purposes, merged the somewhat independent System i and System p server lines, they are still distinct in many ways. But apparently, according to my sources, that is going to change, once and for all, later this year. While many of us are happily unaware of many of the changes that

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• U.S. Drags Down Server Sales in Q1, But Weak Dollar Helps

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Depending on how you want to look at it, the United States both helped and hurt sales in the global server market in the first quarter of 2008, according to statistics compiled by the box counters at IDC. The jittery economy in the United States has caused companies large and small to pull back on server spending, but at the same time the weak dollar compared to currencies in overseas markets that are experiencing decent growth in server sales as their economies build up and are amplifying the revenues as those sales are booked back in the States for

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• Server Branding 101: Big Name, Big Game?

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  For kicks and giggles a few weeks ago, I spent some time monkeying around on the three top search engines seeing how many pages out there on the Internet relating to various IBM server brands and operating systems were being indexed with those terms. As I fully admit, this is a thoroughly unscientific way to try to gauge the relative importance of brands, but it seems to me to be as valid as doing a random poll by telephone–and has the virtue of being done in a few minutes. Now, let’s compare all the big server brands and their vendors.

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• Java Compute Appliances Upgraded by Azul Systems

  June 2, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Azul Systems, the maker of hardware appliances that have been specifically designed to run Java virtual machines that are offloaded from general purpose servers and their applications, has announced the third generation of its Java processors, the Vega-3. With this new chip, Azul is adding more cores to the chip and adding other tweaks to make its Compute Appliances even more appealing to IT shops running Java applications who are sick of paying high prices for servers just to run JVMs. The chip designers at Azul Systems have boosted the number of processor cores on the Vega family of

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