IBM disclosed the plans at a time when server sales among all vendors have taken a bruising during the economic downturn, and IBM is no exception. In a third quarter earnings call yesterday, said Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer, said that the company's third quarter mainframe revenue declined by 26% from the year-earlier period.
Nonetheless, Loughridge said IBM is optimistic about the hardware business in the near future in a climate of what he called a return to "general stability."
The new Power7 chip will offer up to eight cores and increase support for virtualized environments, executives said. IBM has slowly be releasing specs for Power7, which it says will support 1,000 virtualized machines, almost four times the 254 supported by the dual core Power6 chip that was released in 2007. IBM's Power chips support AIX, Linux and the older System I computers.
IBM released its last mainframe, the z10, in February, 2008, and typically releases a new mainframe every three years. If it keeps with that schedule, the new mainframe probably won't be shipping until late next year.
Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc. in Nashua, N.H., said IBM's next mainframes may help users cut costs by allowing them to move some of the mainframe processing to IBM x86 systems. In a hybrid system, the mainframe may handle the service management and data storage with the x86 systems performing some of computational work, said Haff.
IBM has tried to cut user costs in the current mainframe line by using specialty processing engines, such the Linux IFL processor.
The ability to offload mainframe work to the x86 systems of multiple vendors is one of the reasons cited by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) trade group in its effort to trigger a new antitrust inquiry into IBM practices by the Department of Justice. The trade group claims that IBM is blocks third party vendors from offering such an offloading capability.
Rich Partridge, an analyst at Ideas International Inc. in Rye Brook, N.Y., said that with increases in throughput and processing power in the next mainframe, IBM will probably encourage users to replace servers with mainframes to cut back on data center sprawl. The argument for "more centralized computing infrastructure will play to the mainframe," he said.
IBM's planned hardware improvements come as Oracle Corp. outlines more of its plan to integrate Sun Microsystems Inc. once its deal to buy the struggling computer maker closes. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went into overdrive about IBM at company's annual conference OpenWorld, vowing to vanquish IBM.
IBM CTO Alan Ganek was sanguine about IBM's prospects in any head-to-head performance metric match up.
"Oracle is a competitor and will always be a partner," said Ganek, of Ellison's attack, "but I don't see any change here I'm worried about."
Meanwhile, Loughridge noted that IBM's software's sales improved in the third quarter. He cited In particular a 2% increase in sales of the company's major middleware products, such as the WebSphere, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational product lines.
Ganek said in an interview that improvements in the WebSphere and other middleware lines generally are the result of automating businesses processes, so that a user's data can flow through the process end-to-end.
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139482/IBM_plans_big_hardware_upgrade_next_year
Sunday 18 October 2009
Monday 13 July 2009
Businesses Need Efficient Computer Support Services for Strategic Growth
Author: Bryan Williams
Talking about computers, we all know how they can crash at times leading to loss of time, productivity, and money. If this system breakdown is handled by the amateurs, it can lead to severe data loss, which means there is a possibility you may lose some important client information or financial data which no business would ever want! What can be the likely solution to such a situation? The answer is simple; hire professional computer support services and you’re on a safe track. These services will charge you a reasonable monthly fee and give you satisfaction of complete computer management, regular monitoring of the system to prevent it from crashes and severe windows failure.
Computer support service providers make every effort to keep your systems up and prevent it from total collapse and malfunctioning. What can take you several days; can be easily done in only a couple of hours with the help of professional IT computer support service. It keeps your computer systems working well and enables your business to operate at top efficiency which results in your business growth and expansion.
Many businesses have an in-house team of IT professionals and some prefer employing the services of computer support specialists from outside. In both the cases, the choice depends upon the type and size of your business. If you have a business completely dependent on IT and computer systems, it can be a good deal to have in-house specialists for its look after. But if you don’t have your entire business based on computer systems and need computer support on interval basis, hiring a computer support company may be a good cost-effective and productive measure.
If you want your business to prosper and remain productive, and if you want to save your computer systems from crashing down and causing a great deal of data loss, you must definitely call for computer support services. By this action, you will secure yourself some good system backup in much lower prices than you expect.
About Author: Bryan Williams has closely worked with small and medium businesses in analysis, planning &management. If you’re looking for advice regarding computer support, especially IT computer support and or choosing right computer support services you can always ask Bryan.
Talking about computers, we all know how they can crash at times leading to loss of time, productivity, and money. If this system breakdown is handled by the amateurs, it can lead to severe data loss, which means there is a possibility you may lose some important client information or financial data which no business would ever want! What can be the likely solution to such a situation? The answer is simple; hire professional computer support services and you’re on a safe track. These services will charge you a reasonable monthly fee and give you satisfaction of complete computer management, regular monitoring of the system to prevent it from crashes and severe windows failure.
Computer support service providers make every effort to keep your systems up and prevent it from total collapse and malfunctioning. What can take you several days; can be easily done in only a couple of hours with the help of professional IT computer support service. It keeps your computer systems working well and enables your business to operate at top efficiency which results in your business growth and expansion.
Many businesses have an in-house team of IT professionals and some prefer employing the services of computer support specialists from outside. In both the cases, the choice depends upon the type and size of your business. If you have a business completely dependent on IT and computer systems, it can be a good deal to have in-house specialists for its look after. But if you don’t have your entire business based on computer systems and need computer support on interval basis, hiring a computer support company may be a good cost-effective and productive measure.
If you want your business to prosper and remain productive, and if you want to save your computer systems from crashing down and causing a great deal of data loss, you must definitely call for computer support services. By this action, you will secure yourself some good system backup in much lower prices than you expect.
About Author: Bryan Williams has closely worked with small and medium businesses in analysis, planning &management. If you’re looking for advice regarding computer support, especially IT computer support and or choosing right computer support services you can always ask Bryan.
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Google Money Machine - How to Work It!
Author: Sotiris Bassakaropoulos
What side of the Google money making machine are we on. Are we one guilty of the advertisers who are not targeting the right places in Google with our advertisements? If so, we could be throwing our money at a bottomless pit.
What side of the Google money making machine are we on. Are we one guilty of the advertisers who are not targeting the right places in Google with our advertisements? If so, we could be throwing our money at a bottomless pit.
The thing that the online giant is looking for is optimum targeting and using the right keywords, using the wrong keywords could end up in your Pay Per Click Budget, Increasing ten fold with little or no sales results.
This is the stage where most novices and uneducated internet marketers pack it in give in or quit. Saying adwords is too expensive, or it is not getting me any sales, as well as this there are a lot of inexperienced internet newbies who do not even have a capture page. Or an auto responder which means they are losing out on tens even hundreds or thousands of prospects. Even though they have already spent the money to get them!
No wonder they feel they are faced with a problem. One of the best ways of overcoming these problems are through education. Learn from someone who has already passed the newbie stages, and is making money on the internet. This can save you making a lot of new and costly mistakes in your internet business.
In some cases you may have to pay for a course or a piece of software, but in the long run this education if you put it into action will make you your money back many times over.
I went to a seminar in London Last year learned a lot of very valuable information from some top internet marketers who have made millions, the advice they gave me was priceless. I am sure it saved me at least 3 years worth of internet mistakes. The one thing I realized after this seminar is Google really is a moneymaking Machine. And if you learn how Google Paid advertising works you have got an online cash machine ready to print money for you 24/7.
This is a true means of generating passive income on the internet using Google, and Your product or service. Or as an affiliate of someone else, using their product and gaining a healthy commission too in the process.
Recently I discovered a way to reduce, in fact eliminate pay per click advertising costs and advertise on the top ten Google listings at the same time. Including even on competitors websites using the a brand new piece of software.
This has helped me to increase the traffic to my website and save me money. at the same time using this new advertising technique I also get to advertise my products on the top ten websites in my niche.
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