IBM - What's Changed?

What’s the state of Streaming Analytics in 2021, and how has it changed since Bloor's last market overview back in 2018?

Multi-Cloud and new development and deployment technologies are forcing the pace of changes in the Hybrid Infrastructure Management market.

Revolution in IBM, as it spins out managed infrastructure services into a freestanding company, to concentrate on Hybrid Cloud.

BMC has just acquired Compuware, which complements BMC’s mainframe management capabilities with Compuware’s mainframe DevOps capabilities.

IBM have announced a new offering which provides an upgrade path for existing Netezza users who have not already migrated away from that platform.

How is this combination of "Big Blue" and Red Hat going to work? Isn’t it a clash of cultures? Will the sum be more than the two individual parts?

This is the first of several articles on the graph/RDF (and hypergraph) space. This one is generic, the others will be product/vendor specific.

IBM and Informatica have both just come out with big data integration and governance products

IBM is doing some whizzy things with cloud

There seem to be more self-service data preparation platforms emerging every day.

IBM Mobile Accessibility Checker ensures that mobile apps will be more accessible at a lower cost. Similar checkers should be built in to all ICT development.

An announcement was made yesterday (October 14th) that SAP have chosen IBM as a premier strategic provider of cloud infrastructure services.

High productivity means developing usable business outcomes, productively...

Initial thoughts from Innovate 2014

Impact announced its BlueMix PaaS and lots of associated services

The market for data governance is diffuse. Historically, there have been, and remain, several different sectors...

While there are trends towards including more discovery capability and towards supporting NoSQL the vendors are significantly fragmented at present.

State of play for systems engineering at IBM.

A new z mainframe arrives - and I wonder why it still seems to be a specialist choice for many companies

There's been some confusion about how exactly DB2 is supporting JSON: here's the lowdown

If you implement a different database on top of Hadoop is it still Hadoop? If you replace the file system in Hadoop (or MongoDB) is still Hadoop?

DB2 now has so many storage engines that it's no longer accurate to simply call it "relational"

This document represents a snapshot of the current state of the service virtualisation market.

The latest version of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows is now available. Perhaps most interestingly DB2 can now act as a graph store.

My thoughts after being given an update on how IBM are progressing with the roll out of their BI and analytics suite following the recent spate of acquistions

Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications

IBM probably has the largest portfolio of products covering the big data space

IBM’s data integration products provide three methods for delivering data: ETL (extract, transform and load), which provides bulk (batch) data loading functionality; data federation, which supports virtual data delivery; and data replication, which allows incremental updates. The use of ETL…

Good news for IBM; bad news for Oracle - why Bob Evans might just be right

A roundup of things that took my interest at IoD Rome

The addition of DB2 pureScale adds significantly to the existing strengths of DB2.

Partial consolidation is occuring in the CEP market

Consolidation in the MDM market seems about done

IBM's acquisition of Guardium should have implications for the Tivoli group as well as for Information Management.

IBM on December 16th announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi.

Pervasive BI, Pervasive data quality, Pervasive availability - what's with all this pervasiveness?

The advent of IBM's System S (which I shall discuss in more detail in a subsequent article) raises interesting questions about the nature of event and stream-based processing. The reason for this...

This paper discusses data breakage and access, and then briefly considers how IBM Optim works, particularly with respect to System z.

This is the sixth in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. For those of you who read IT-Analysis.com...

On July 28th 2008, IBM and ILOG announced that they had signed an agreement regarding to the proposed acquisition of ILOG by IBM.

On April 8th 2008, Lombardi announced the live release of Lombardi Blueprint Spring '08 release. It is immediately available to current users, who number more than 2,400 companies across 88 countries.

In this the second of 2 articles I will look at ILOG's Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS). In the first article, I looked at ILOG the company and its product offerings.

Sorry for the pun, but thought this might be a good way of talking about Lombardi Teamwork 6 BPM suite. In Bloor's 2006 BPM Market report, Lombardi were given a "One-to-Watch" status, So what has changed?