Infoworld.
“Anytime IBM gets into something, it usually calms people down as something safe to use in their business,” said Michael Coté, an analyst with Redmonk.
What he said. I talked to IBM mashup strategy here.
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I keep reading this headline and metaphorically rubbing my eyes/scrubbing my ears.
Cloud Computing Gains Steam With New I.B.M. Gear
What’s up with that? “Cloud” meets “Gear” in a huge PR triumph. Cloud… Gear… geddit?
So Microsoft announces Mesh, and Amazon cloud growth is exploding. But not when we’re looking at the traditional hardware business.
What I hadn’t realised (the NY Times story has been an open tab all week) was this:
The I.B.M. systems will mostly be made to order for large customers. One offering involves putting 1,500 server computers into a 40-foot truck trailer, ready to plug in from a parking lot, Mr. Gargan said.
The corporate customers who have been trying out the I.B.M. systems include Yahoo and other Internet companies. But some large companies in finance and other traditional industries have been testing them as well.”
Sounds like Black Box to me.
As legacy boy I am also very pleased to hear that IBM using water cooling is now “innovative” - company used to get hammered for needing a water supply. Water-cooled mainframes. Remember? What’s old is new again.
The point of this post is not that IBM is doing anything wrong. On the contrary - what a roll its on. But - IBM is not leading in cloud computing, its redefining it.
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April 25, 2008 – 12:08 pm
IBM’s latest acquisition. I’m just sayin…
Diligent develops in-line data de-duplication software that is integrated with server and storage infrastructures to help organizations significantly reduce the amount and cost of physical storage required in data centers. Enterprise and mid-sized organizations are faced with data centers that are reaching a breaking point of complexity and manageability, while at the same time experiencing explosive demands for storage for new data, transactions, email and back-up files.
Oracle also advises you to Throw Away Half Your Disk Drives (you gotta love the asterisk clause…)
Virtualisation has obvious potential in reducing storage volumes. But de-duplication is also going to be a very big deal. Think how data volumes are exploding. I just bought a new hard drive- 500Gb for less than a hundred quid. wow.
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Make. It. Green.
Seriously- I am extremely impressed with the company’s sustainability efforts, which I wrote up over here. If you insist on running a conference in Las Vegas (and yes environmentally Orlando is probably just as bad) then why not make real efforts to attend to the carbon footprint involved?
Great job Douglas Sabo!!! Special bonus insight. What made this press release so easy to find? Doug blogged it. Blogs make you more findable, and findability is a core element of CSR 2.0. You have to put the social in corporate social responsibility. McAfee apparently is.
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