The Norfolk Punt - Bloor Research

Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.

Stop press: mainframe finally dead…

With the introduction of the integral blade servers in zEnterprise, the mainframe really is just another server

Many developers see the need for software version control, but good version management is important everywhere, not just for software.

People want to adopt innovation at their own pace - which means that there's a market for capability add-ins for legacy tools

Sybase is now used to working as an "independent" part of SAP. It seems to be going well.

Steve Mills as energetic as ever - and the Jazz/OSLC platform is maturing

Initial impressions of IBM Innovate 2011 - the theme is the strategic importance of EA and of measing business outcomes.

Every year, Pulse Comes to You, an offshoot of IBM's Tivoli user conference in Las Vegas, goes around the world. I attended in London.

Every year, Pulse Comes to You, an offshoot of IBM's Tivoli user conference in Las Vegas, goes around the world. I attended in London.

The Configuration Management System is a fundamental enabler for good IT governance.

When you have thousands of cores in your processor, perhaps you need to think of radically new ways to use them all