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Monday, February 29, 2016
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Interesting Study: Millennials - The New B2B Decision Makers
IBM Institute for Business Value
To Buy or Not to Buy:
How Millennials Are Reshaping B2B Marketing
Thursday, July 30, 2015
IT Uncensored: APM Insights from the Front Lines
The following was originally published on IBM's Service Management 360 Blog by the Service Management team on July 29th, 2015
As Product Manager for IBM Application Performance Management (APM), Tim Bouhour has plenty of advice for IT professionals on his cool APM solution. He’s got a history with Middleware, so he’s seen it evolve into product that amazes him and impresses his friends.
#1 Survival Tip for Every New IT manager
Listen up IT people: Tim’s an expert that knows how frustrating it can be to chase application management fires and bear the brunt of an end user’s ire. The best skill an IT manager can acquire is to be predictive and proactive in embracing change. Disasters in the IT department get people yelling – see them coming and you’ll eliminate the noise. It’s better to manage the small red flags that indicate a problem’s on the horizon.
Middleware Coolness
Tim knows the IBM Application Performance Management inside and out. He’s in a position to tell you what’s awesome about the solution, even when it’s nothing more than a sign that says “Here’s the issue.” Tim has seen APM tools actually find a single line of code that’s responsible for an application mishap. What’s cooler than receiving a notification from your application management software that tells you there’s a problem and how to fix it?
Plus, IBM’s APM is a breeze to implement, according to Tim. His history includes installations that take days and armies of experts. Now, IBM Application Performance Management can be up and running in 30 minutes, through the efforts of a team of one.
APM is Dressed to Impress
Tim loves to leave his friends in awe of all that Application Performance Management does for business critical applications. What does he tell them that makes jaws hit the ground? The high levels of service for end users. His friends are impressed that the IBM team releases new APM features every month – not once or twice a year. They’re always rolling and providing new value with continuous delivery.
Do you want to stop chasing fires and start preventing them? Learn more about IBM Application Performance Management solutions here or contact Joe Gaeta today.
Follow Tim Bouhour on Twitter at @TimBouhour for updates about IBM APM.
#1 Survival Tip for Every New IT manager
Listen up IT people: Tim’s an expert that knows how frustrating it can be to chase application management fires and bear the brunt of an end user’s ire. The best skill an IT manager can acquire is to be predictive and proactive in embracing change. Disasters in the IT department get people yelling – see them coming and you’ll eliminate the noise. It’s better to manage the small red flags that indicate a problem’s on the horizon.
Middleware Coolness
Tim knows the IBM Application Performance Management inside and out. He’s in a position to tell you what’s awesome about the solution, even when it’s nothing more than a sign that says “Here’s the issue.” Tim has seen APM tools actually find a single line of code that’s responsible for an application mishap. What’s cooler than receiving a notification from your application management software that tells you there’s a problem and how to fix it?
Plus, IBM’s APM is a breeze to implement, according to Tim. His history includes installations that take days and armies of experts. Now, IBM Application Performance Management can be up and running in 30 minutes, through the efforts of a team of one.
APM is Dressed to Impress
Tim loves to leave his friends in awe of all that Application Performance Management does for business critical applications. What does he tell them that makes jaws hit the ground? The high levels of service for end users. His friends are impressed that the IBM team releases new APM features every month – not once or twice a year. They’re always rolling and providing new value with continuous delivery.
Do you want to stop chasing fires and start preventing them? Learn more about IBM Application Performance Management solutions here or contact Joe Gaeta today.
Follow Tim Bouhour on Twitter at @TimBouhour for updates about IBM APM.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
July 16th Webcast: Cast Iron and IBM Integration Bus - Connecting your ESB to the Cloud
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2015Time: 10:00 a.m - 11:00 a.m. EST
Registration: https://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~castironlive
Webcast Description: With the adoption of cloud, mobility and analytics on the rise, competitive differentiation is increasingly driven by digital transformation projects. But in order to turn innovation into tangible results, IT departments must find new ways to integrate systems that traditionally operated in isolation and collaborate with the lines of business that are driving these projects.
Join this webinar to learn how IBM's Hybrid Integration offerings, specifically IBM Integration Bus and IBM Cast Iron can help organizations connect SaaS applications, cloud data sources and mobile projects with on-premises systems to create new revenue channels, cut costs, and reduce time to market.
IBM® WebSphere Cast Iron is a proven methodology and solution for connecting on premise business applications to cloud based applications. In this webinar, you will see how IBM can connect a consolidated heterogeneous IT infrastructure to a cloud application.
IBM Integration Bus (IIB) is IBM’s strategic enterprise integration platform enabling universal connectivity and transformation in heterogeneous IT environments for businesses of any size and any industry. It is a robust and scalable technology that enables the integration of data sources from a wide range of platforms across both service oriented architectures (SOA) and non-SOA environments.
Speakers:
- Andrew Humphreys, Product Manager for IBM Integration Bus
- Jonathan Kempel, Product Manager for IBM Cloud Integration
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Thursday, June 4th at Fenway Park: A Power-Hitting Lineup of Game-Changing Solutions!
You are invited to join the Lighthouse and IBM team for an executive briefing where we’ll offer an overview of IT solutions that can help your business leverage competitive advantage over your rivals. After the briefing, we’ll enjoy the Red Sox game in a private suite.
Date: Thursday, June 4th
Time: Executive Briefing 1pm - 3:30pm / Game Time 4pm
Location: Hotel Commonwealth
Sean Hauver, Lighthouse Chief Innovation Officer, will speak on the relationship of business with IT, security and cloud computing. Previous to Lighthouse, Sean spent over 20 years at Hanover Insurance Group in various strategic positions across the organization. His most recent role was leading their Enterprise Architecture strategy organization.The Briefing has 2 breakout sessions to make it easier for you to focus on the solutions that matter most to your business.
Track 1 - IBM Connectivity and Integration Solutions
Enterprises need to adopt a flexible and secure integration model so that back-office systems can keep pace with rapid change. Learn more about IBM solutions that deliver access to data, applications and information regardless of platform, device or data formats—across both on-premises and cloud environments.
Track 2 - Smarter Solutions for Big Data and Analytics
High performance storage tier optimization, elastic storage, virtualization, real-time compression, software-defined storage, and cloud computing are just a few of the examples of IBM technologies that can help manage rapid data growth more effectively. We will discuss how companies are deploying these solutions to safely protect data, improve access, and mange total costs.
Then learn about how companies are applying all kinds of analytics to all kinds of data with IBM Big Data & Analytics solutions to discover fresh insights and capture the time-value of data to gain competitive advantage.
For more information and to RSVP, contact me today!
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
IBM's Watson supercomputer to speed up cancer care.
Originally published by the BBC on 6 May 2015.
IBM's supercomputer Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals in the US and Canada, it has been announced.
The system will help assess individual tumours and suggest which drug should be used to target them.
Doctors have welcomed the new computer which will learn from each case it examines.
"When you are dealing with cancer, it is always a race," said Dr Lukas Wartman, assistant director of cancer genomics at the McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, one of those signed up to use the Watson system.
"As a cancer patient myself, I know how important genomic information can be.
"Unfortunately, translating cancer-sequencing results into potential treatment options often takes weeks with a team of experts to study just one patient's tumour and provide results to guide treatment decisions. Watson appears to help dramatically reduce that timeline," he explained.
Pressing issue
Most people currently diagnosed with cancer will receive surgery, chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
But as genetic sequencing becomes increasingly accessible and affordable, some patients are starting to benefit from treatments that target their specific cancer-causing genetic mutations.
However the process is very time-consuming - a single patient's genome represents more than 100 gigabytes of data - and this needs to be combined with other medical records, journal studies and information about clinical trials.
What would take a clinician weeks to analyse can be completed by Watson in only a few minutes.
"The technology that we're applying to this challenge brings the power of cognitive computing to bear on one of the most urgent and pressing issues of our time - the fight against cancer - in a way that has never before been possible," explained Steve Harvey, vice president of IBM Watson Health.
According to Mr Harvey, Watson "will look for actionable targets", although he acknowledged that, "when institutions do genetic sequencing, only about half the cases come back with something actionable".
Sometimes it is impossible to identify the main mutation and, in other cases, no targeted therapy currently exists.
Those collaborating with IBM include the Cleveland Clinic, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Centre in Omaha and the Yale Cancer Centre.
Eleven others will join the programme by the end of 2015 and each will pay an undisclosed subscription fee to IBM.
Corporate medicine
The link-up is part of an increasingly close relationship between the medical community and technology corporations.
Apple revealed this week that it plans to develop apps for the iPhone that will allow users to take DNA tests which may reveal which diseases and health conditions they are likely to develop
It also recently teamed up with IBM to allow the software that helps gather health data from iPhones to be used by Watson.
IBM is convinced that Watson can "help change the face of healthcare" but it has even bigger ambitions for its cognitive computing platform.
Speaking at an IBM event this week, the firm's chief executive Ginni Rometty made a bold prediction for the technology, saying: "in the future, every decision mankind makes, every decision, is going to be informed by a cognitive system like Watson and, as a result, our lives in this world are going to be better for it."
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
IBM Cloud SaaS Capabilities
Doug Cox, General Manager, IBM Cloud SaaS Operational Services, talks about the capabilities IBM SaaS offerings provide worldwide.
Monday, March 16, 2015
IBM MQ vs. Apache ActiveMQ Performance Comparison Update
This article describes results of the persistent messaging performance tests that I carried out in the last 2 months using IBM MQ v8.0 (formerly WebSphere MQ) and Apache ActiveMQ 5.11.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Don't miss the weekly IBM Integration Google Hangouts!
All hangouts will be from 11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
starting Wednesday, March 11, with time allowed for Q&A.
Integration Google Hangouts: http://bit.ly/1yMEKwt
March 11, 2015
11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
'What is Messaging Part 2'
Speaker: Leif Davidsen, Senior Product Manager IBM Messaging Portfolio
In our earlier Google hangout, we covered exactly what messaging is and some of the uses. In this session, Leif Davidsen and Jon Mc Namara will explore messaging deployments and use cases in a little more detail. What might be some typical scenarios where messaging is used and not other technology choices? What different features does messaging offer, and how can these be used to meet customer needs. This is a live hangout and there will be time allocated for Q&A. So if you ever wondered what publish subscribe is, and when you should use it, come along and make sure all your questions are answered.
March 18, 2015
11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
'IIB Version 10'
Speaker: Andrew Humphreys, IBM Integration Bus Product Manager
35% to 70% of IT Budgets is spent on building, administering and maintaining integration. IBM Integration Bus aims to reduce integration costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness, through componentization and reuse of core operational IT assets. Join this session to understand the business value of the latest release of IBM integration Bus, IBM's powerful solution for all enterprise connectivity use cases. Learn how it is essential in enabling business growth areas such as cloud, mobile and big data.
March 25, 2015
11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
'API's and SOA: Better Together'
Speaker: Alan Glickenhouse, IBM API Management Business Strategist
Is SOA dead? Is an API all you need? Join Alan Glickenhouse as he takes you on a journey from SOA to API's and back again. Learn how API's and SOA are better together and how to use their synergy to unlock innovation and growth. This is a live hangout with time allocated for Q&A. If you wonder why you should care about the difference between API's and services, join this session and have all your questions are answered
April 1, 2015
11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
'6th Annual Hursley Summit, June 8-11'
Speaker: Ray Daniel, Integration Executive, IBM Middleware, North America
Join this Hangout to hear what is on the agenda for the 6th Annual North American Hursley Summit being held in June. Better yet, you will hear from a couple of past customer attendees with their views on the value of attending the Hursley Summit.
April 8, 2015
11:30 - 12:00 pm EST
'Messaging in a Box'
Speaker: Leif Davidsen, Senior Product Manager IBM Messaging Portfolio
What is new and exciting, yet hidden in a sleek black box? It is IBM's new MQ Appliance! In this hangout, Leif Davidsen and Jon Mc Namara will explore what's new about the just-announced MQ Appliance, with a focus on how much simpler it is to deploy, configure and maintain messaging. It will help both existing users, as well as new, start and manage a messaging infrastructure. This is a live hangout with time allocated for Q&A. So if you ever wondered if MQ is right for your business, come and learn how the MQ Appliance is what you've been waiting for.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
IBM Breaks U.S. Patent Record in 2014
First Company to Exceed 7,000 Patents in a Year #1 on U.S. Patent List for 22nd Consecutive Year
ARMONK, N.Y. - 12 Jan 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it received a record 7,534 patents in 2014 -- marking the 22nd consecutive year that the company topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
IBM inventors earned an average of more than 20 patents per day in 2014, propelling the company to become the first to surpass more than 7,000 patents in a single year.
“IBM's continued investment in research and development is key to driving the transformation of our company, as we look to capture the emerging opportunities represented by cloud, big data and analytics, security, social and mobile," said Ginni Rometty, IBM's chairman, president and CEO. "IBM's patent leadership over more than two decades demonstrates our enduring commitment to the kind of fundamental R&D that can solve the most daunting challenges facing our clients and the world.”
The company’s record-setting 2014 patent output was led by more than 3,000 patents – 40% of its annual total – covering a range of cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security inventions. Over the past five years, IBM has more than doubled its output of patents within these strategic growth areas and was the leading recipient of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security patents during this period.
IBM inventors also received more than 500 patents for inventions that will usher in the era of cognitive systems, including new Watson related cognitive technologies.
During IBM’s 22 years atop the patent list (1993-2014), the company’s inventors have received more than 81,500 U.S. patents.
The company's 2014 patent count exceeded the combined totals of Accenture, Amazon, Google, HP, Intel and Oracle.
More than 8,500 IBMers residing in 46 states and territories and 43 countries are responsible for IBM's record breaking 2014 patent tally. IBM inventors who reside outside the U.S. contributed to more than 34% of the company's 2014 patents.
IBM's record-breaking 2014 patent output features thousands of inventions that will enable important cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security advancements, such as:
For more information about IBM's patent leadership and some of the young inventors who contributed to the company’s 2014 patent production, please see: https://ibm.biz/BdEA74
ARMONK, N.Y. - 12 Jan 2015: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it received a record 7,534 patents in 2014 -- marking the 22nd consecutive year that the company topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
IBM inventors earned an average of more than 20 patents per day in 2014, propelling the company to become the first to surpass more than 7,000 patents in a single year.
“IBM's continued investment in research and development is key to driving the transformation of our company, as we look to capture the emerging opportunities represented by cloud, big data and analytics, security, social and mobile," said Ginni Rometty, IBM's chairman, president and CEO. "IBM's patent leadership over more than two decades demonstrates our enduring commitment to the kind of fundamental R&D that can solve the most daunting challenges facing our clients and the world.”
The company’s record-setting 2014 patent output was led by more than 3,000 patents – 40% of its annual total – covering a range of cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security inventions. Over the past five years, IBM has more than doubled its output of patents within these strategic growth areas and was the leading recipient of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security patents during this period.
IBM inventors also received more than 500 patents for inventions that will usher in the era of cognitive systems, including new Watson related cognitive technologies.
During IBM’s 22 years atop the patent list (1993-2014), the company’s inventors have received more than 81,500 U.S. patents.
The Top Ten list of 2014 U.S. patent recipients* includes:
More than 8,500 IBMers residing in 46 states and territories and 43 countries are responsible for IBM's record breaking 2014 patent tally. IBM inventors who reside outside the U.S. contributed to more than 34% of the company's 2014 patents.
IBM's record-breaking 2014 patent output features thousands of inventions that will enable important cloud computing, analytics, mobile, social and security advancements, such as:
- U.S. Patent #8,661,132: Enabling service virtualization in a cloud
- U.S. Patent #8,874,638: Interactive analytics processing
- U.S. Patent #8,903,360: Mobile device validation
- U.S. Patent #8,706,648: Assessing social risk due to exposure from linked contacts
- U.S. Patent #8,869,274: Identifying whether an application is malicious
- U.S. Patent #8,639,497: Natural language processing (‘NLP’)
For more information about IBM's patent leadership and some of the young inventors who contributed to the company’s 2014 patent production, please see: https://ibm.biz/BdEA74
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
CERN Uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to Handle Exploding Data Volumes
"At CERN we have been using TSM for many years, and the amount of data we have been storing on TSM since has been growing almost exponentially. And TSM has been able to grow with it, to scale accordingly.”
- Germán Cancio, section leader for tapes, archives, and backups at CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, collects more than a gigabyte of data per second, 24 hours a day, from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. To reliably and efficiently store this ever-expanding universe of information, CERN uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software.
"The biggest challenge that we have here in the data center is that the four LHC experiments sends us constantly, 24-hours a day, more than a gigabyte of data per second, so we really have to store this data, preserve it in the long-term, but also to make it accessible to several thousands of physicists worldwide." - Alberto Pace, data and storage service group lead for CERN
CERN uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software to efficiently and reliably store huge, ever-expanding quantities of data.
"On IBM equipment we store approximately 40 petabytes worth of data. Now consider that a single DVD is four gigabytes of data. So we have around 10 million DVDs stored on IBM equipment."
- Germán Cancio, section leader for tapes, archives, and backups at CERN
- Germán Cancio, section leader for tapes, archives, and backups at CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, collects more than a gigabyte of data per second, 24 hours a day, from its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. To reliably and efficiently store this ever-expanding universe of information, CERN uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software.
"The biggest challenge that we have here in the data center is that the four LHC experiments sends us constantly, 24-hours a day, more than a gigabyte of data per second, so we really have to store this data, preserve it in the long-term, but also to make it accessible to several thousands of physicists worldwide." - Alberto Pace, data and storage service group lead for CERN
CERN uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software to efficiently and reliably store huge, ever-expanding quantities of data.
"On IBM equipment we store approximately 40 petabytes worth of data. Now consider that a single DVD is four gigabytes of data. So we have around 10 million DVDs stored on IBM equipment."
- Germán Cancio, section leader for tapes, archives, and backups at CERN
Monday, October 27, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
IBM Seminar “Agility & Speed: The New Currency on Cloud” September 16th, Atlanta, GA
A recent survey found that 83% of IT Leaders don’t believe they can deliver services fast enough. Find out how you can get the speed you need to meet your customers’ expectations for fast delivery of services by providing automated, self-service delivery of software and infrastructure.
Businesses today are operating and behaving very differently than what we’ve been used to in the past. Mobile, social and analytics technologies have changed how businesses interact with customers and have increased the expectations of business responsiveness. Customers now expect quick access to new services anytime and from anywhere.
Join IBM on September 16th in Atlanta, GA for a morning of discussion where industry leaders will share approaches on how you can use the latest cloud orchestration technology to deliver services fast.
This event will address:
- Why speed is the new currency
- The importance of Orchestration and Automation in achieving speed
- How to automate development processes and eliminate waste
- How to efficiently build, deploy and manage applications
- Quantifying the business value
Learn more about this event and register now through the event registration site: www.ibm.com/events/CloudSpeedSeminarAtlanta2014
Do you know someone else who may be interested in this event? Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues.
September 16, 2014; 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
IBM "Watercooler" Webinar Series
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| Several powerful forces are rapidly converging to help you better serve your customers and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace: cloud, analytics, mobility, social and security. Join IBM, thought leaders and your peers to uncover how these forces help transform business and fuel your competitive advantage. Grab Lunch and collaborate with us to hear insights that are shaping business today and tomorrow. In these short format, 30-minute webinars, you'll hear the top ways leading organizations are implementing strategies to combat business challenges across the business-Marketing, Procurement, IT Operations and Security. You will also hear directly about the benefits from thought leaders who are infusing flexible deployment solutions into their own operations. Webcast Details: 12:30-1pm ET
Sign up for the Webinar that suits your department needs - or sign up for the entire series. Questions? Contact me. See you at the Watercooler! |
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