IBM acquires Netezza22nd September 2010Philip Howard Good news for IBM; bad news for Oracle - why Bob Evans might just be right
More mainframe madness22nd July 2010David Norfolk If you thought mainframes were boring and only ran, possibly important but dying, legacy apps, the new zSeries from IBM may change your mind.
IBM breaks down the silos – Part 1, Design for Operations11th July 2010David Norfolk Part 1 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences
IBM, Hadoop, Initiate and other things2nd June 2010Philip Howard A roundup of things that took my interest at IoD Rome
Database Trends18th March 2010Philip Howard Philip Howard discusses trends common to transactional and warehouse environments.
Making sense of it all 28th February 2010Philip Howard Partial consolidation is occuring in the CEP market
Making sense of it all 16th February 2010Philip Howard Consolidation in the MDM market seems about done
Communicating the message18th December 2009Philip Howard IBM's acquisition of Guardium should have implications for the Tivoli group as well as for Information Management.
IBM acquires Lombardi16th December 2009Simon Holloway IBM on December 16th announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi.