At its annual user and partner Impact conference in Las Vegas this week, IBM
announced a slew of new products, including new additions to its WebSphere
applications family.
There are also promises of better integration with software products from its
recent acquisitions and a new piece of integrated hardware to its Pure line
of expert hardware systems.
Today’s IBM mainframe comes inside a 19-inch rack and runs on Intel CPUs.
You can read more about my coverage of IBM’s Impact 2012 conference this
week in Las Vegas in Tom’s ITPro here.
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If it is April in St. Louis, it is time for our downtown to be swarming with
thousands of the smartest kids on the planet. They are here to participate in
another First Robotics Global Competition, one of my favorite events to
cover. For those of you that haven’t yet heard about this, the kids take
part in this very fun and challenging event. They have to build and operate
robots of varying shapes and sizes, depending on their age group.
The event is held in our indoor football stadium-cum-conference center, and
it is big: both buildings are filled with so much positive energy and... (more)
I met Peter Griess last night and heard him talk about his career. Even
though he still has plenty of years ahead of him, he has already worked for
NetApp, Yahoo, and now Facebook.
He was part of a nine-person startup that worked on some interesting social
email apps that eventually got acquired by Yahoo. Along his career he has
seen very different kinds of cultures in these various software engineering
departments, and as I was listening to his talk, I thought about the many
software companies that I have covered over the years.
I would break them down into three different kinds ... (more)
About a month ago, on ReadWriteWeb ran a link to a TED video about learning
from failure. It spoke to me and I started thinking about some of my failures
in my professional life over the past years. I have had more of them that I
initially thought of, and while that was a little depressing, it was
instructive to collect all of them in one place. So why not share them with
you, dear reader? After all, I usually tell you about my insights. Here goes.
I have written three books, with two of them actually published. While you
may think of that as a success, in reality neither of them ... (more)
Despite threats by Anonymous, the Internet’s numerous root Domain Name
Servers (DNS) were still functional over the weekend. There were reported
claims to bring down this collection of important servers in the hopes of
more cyberterrorism. However, while there are only 13 root servers, they are
replicated into hundreds of machines around the globe using a variety of
protocol tricks, and recently efforts were accelerated to further protect the
roots too.
But I learned a valuable DNS lesson of my own last week, unrelated to the
supposed plans of this hacker group. And that is: tre... (more)
David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.
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