Bank of Ireland shortlists IBM, HCL for $600 Million deal to replace HP
By Tarry Singh at 3 June, 2010, 12:11 am
Bank of Ireland has shortlisted HCL Technologies and IBM for an outsourcing contract potentially worth over $600 million, replacing incumbent vendor HP, which had signed a seven-year deal with the bank in 2004. ( Watch ) The outsourcing contract will involve management of the bank’s IT infrastructure including desktops, servers, printers and other communication networks. [...]
Read More >>AT&T offloads B2B unit Sterling Commerce to IBM for $1.4Bn
By Tarry Singh at 24 May, 2010, 11:26 am
Dublin, Ohio-based Sterling makes technology that helps companies to do business with other companies. Its “business-to-business” software is used to automate processes such as the purchase or raw materials or the replenished of depleted inventory. About 80% of the Fortune 500 companies are clients, though revenue is less than $1 billion annually. Read commentary about [...]
Read More >>Failed outsourcing contract; State of Indiana sues IBM for $1.3 Bn in damages!
By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2010, 11:48 pm
IBM’s program failed repeatedly, delaying the updating of data, leading to denial of Medicaid and ultimately resulting in the cancellation of the deal. However, all may not be lost because although IBM is no longer a lead contractor, the company’s technology, infrastructure, applications and processes have helped the FSSA to develop a hybrid system that [...]
Read More >>VMware’s SpringSource buys an IMDB vendor GemStone
By Tarry Singh at 7 May, 2010, 9:56 am
This is expected part of their strategy to build the cloud solutions within the private cloud jacket. In Memory databases are great for homogeneous financial applications and have never been tested or tried out in complex, not-generally tested and tried out workloads. But it is for sure that the apps that are slowly being built [...]
Read More >>IBM to focus on Cloud Computing in China
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 9:59 am
IBM will keep up with the economic stimulus package worked out by the Chinese government in 2010, focusing on the sectors backed up by the government, disclosed an executive for the US-based company yesterday. In spite of the global financial crisis, it managed to maintain a 10% growth in China last year, when global net [...]
Read More >>IBM’s answer to Oracle: Power7 boxes tailored for specific projects like Electric Grids, Financial Analytics
By Tarry Singh at 8 February, 2010, 10:14 am
The Power7 systems will be tailored for specific projects, such as running electrical grids or financial analytics, Rodney Adkins, senior vice president for systems and technology, said last week in an interview. The systems, made of integrated servers, software and storage, will start selling this month. The release marks the first new systems since Adkins [...]
Read More >>Cloud march has begun: Panasonic dumps on-premise Microsoft Exchange for IBM’s LotusLive mail
By Tarry Singh at 15 January, 2010, 1:17 am
As big enterprises realize that on-premise work is way too expensive, no matter how deep all the optimization work maybe, many on-premise investments that have been made by the hardware and software vendors from the delivery side to the assets that customers were forced to maintain such as staff, floorspace, gear, licenses, it all will [...]
Read More >>IBM Redbook on VMware: VMware Proof of Practice and Performance Guidelines on the SAN Volume Controller
By Tarry Singh at 1 January, 2010, 11:11 am
This IBM® Redpapers™ publication presents the results of I/O performance tests conducted using VMware ESX running on IBM System x® servers attached to the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC). We show the results of tests involving different work loads and I/O patterns and offer guidance about how best to use the SVC with [...]
Read More >>Age of (expensive) Enterprise Software is over as another mainframe killer emerges; Targets IBM’s $4bn market!
By Tarry Singh at 9 November, 2009, 1:57 pm
Funny thing is that with Cloud comptuing the regular software firms and open source projects that had nothing to do with the cloud or any internet-related brouhaha, started getting calls from customers on how much it is to save money and look at places where you all can save money! Look at the cost of [...]
Read More >>Texas sees IBM incapable of recovering lost data; takes away voter system from ~$1Bn project from IBM
By Tarry Singh at 6 November, 2009, 12:27 am
88% o agencies survey were dissatisfied with IBM services. This is definitely not the only region IBM is having trouble. In EMEA IBM has lost several large accounts to competitors as there were irreconcilable differences and poor service that was being delivered by IBM. Many APAC economies that opened up their budgets and got IBM/HP [...]
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