IBM breaks down the silos – Part 3, Systems of Systems
Part 3 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences
IBM breaks down the silos – Part 1, Design for Operations
Part 1 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences
Cloud Commons and a Service Measurement Index
The Service Measurement Index (SMI) attempts to provide a rational way of measuring cloud computing implementations along a range of dimensions.
Hypergrowth in Latin America?
The newly renamed CA Technologies now sees its future in exploiting "hypergrowth opportunities" in regions like Latin America.
In Barcelona for the Intel Software Conference
Intel is a software company and produces some of the finest highly-optimising compilers. I look at just what you can rely on them for.
IBM Rational Software Conferance – Booch on Day 3
The highlight of the third day at RSC was Grady Booch's roundtable discussion session as usual. He expressed a certain disappointment in today's modelling tools—which are a long way now from...
Making BrITain Great Again
It's nice to talk about something positive for a change—and to meet a company actually trying to be positive about UK plc's prospects. Micro Focus collected a panel of the Great and Good to...
IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 – Day 2
Sorry it has taken a while to get my second report on RSC 2009 out—it's turning a braindump into respectable reportage that takes the time, I find. On Day 2, I was pleased that in the...
Day 1 at IBM Rational’s Software Development Conference
So here I am in sunny Florida at another RSDC (Rational Software Development Conference, now including an added Telelogic user conference). This one is in hard times and IBM seems rather keen on...
The Blue Cloud from IBM
Cloud computing, as Bloor's Cloud specialist, Martin Banks, keeps telling me, means may things to many people. In fact, the meaning attached to cloud can change radically during a conversation!...