IBM's Top Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination; IBM's Latest Offerings Focus on Simplifying Software Delivery

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TOP STORIES - June 14, 2011 • Darryl K. Taft: IBM's Top Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination • IBM's Latest Offerings Focus on Simplifying Software Delivery • New High-Performance-Computing Cloud Offerings Unveiled by IBM • Building Skills in the Next Generation of Software Developers • IBM Delivers Pinhead-Size Nanotech Circuits for Wireless Devices SPOTLIGHT IBM at 100: Biggest Hits and Misses From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card to Watson, IBM has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud • Microsoft Offers Windows 8 First Look • iCloud Gives Amazon, Google Competition • Apps That Harness Dual Touch Screens FEATURED VIDEO Healthy Dose of Analytics A Texas hospital slashed patient readmissions by 22% using analytics software. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Apple's iOS Stats Put Android's to Shame • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Inside Samsung Chromebook Teardown • Why Apple's iPhone 5 Remains a No-Show IN THIS ISSUE Darryl K. Taft: IBM's Top Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination IBM has had a history of making strategic acquisitions over the years, but big software buys did not start until former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner set out to get Lotus in 1995 and then Tivoli in 1996. And under the leadership of Samuel Palmisano since 2002, IBM launched a series of acquisitions, which the company says will remain a part of the company's growth strategy through 2015. READ MORE >> IBM's Latest Offerings Focus on Simplifying Software Delivery At their Innovate 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla., IBM officials unveiled new software offerings that they say allow developer teams to quickly access resources and work more efficiently across global boundaries through an open, collaborative development environment. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM If you love your HP Itanium system but want to get off Oracle DB, try IBM DB2 on HP instead. Click here to learn more ADVERTISEMENT New High-Performance-Computing Cloud Offerings Unveiled by IBM IBM has announced new high-performance-computing cloud offerings to help users tackle advanced scientific and technical computing workloads like analytics, simulations for product development, climate research and life sciences. READ MORE >> Building Skills in the Next Generation of Software Developers IBM is working to help bring more students into the world of collaborative software development with a new initiative known as JazzHub, a free cloud-based software development service that brings IBM's Jazz development environment to universities. READ MORE >> IBM Delivers Pinhead-Size Nanotech Circuits for Wireless Devices IBM researchers have made a scientific breakthrough in delivering the first wafer-scale graphene integrated circuits that are smaller than a pinhead. READ MORE >> Enterprise Content Management from A to Z Read this technology brief to learn more about the four key forces that are driving organizations to adopt a strategic, enterprise-level approach to planning and deploying content systems. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Enterprise LAN: The Magic Quadrant The LAN switching market is mature; however, it continues to evolve, as enterprises move toward a secure, collaborative workplace. Ethernet is used in more environments beyond traditional IT systems (such as process control, building automation and security), as Ethernet switching functionality is integrated into more data center infrastructures. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma. REGISTER >> What Can Identity Management Do for You? Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies. REGISTER >>

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