The Norfolk Punt - Bloor Research

Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.

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

Part 2 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences

Part 1 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences

Sybase is in the news following its possible purchase by SAP but it still seems to have a good technology story apart from that.

The Service Measurement Index (SMI) attempts to provide a rational way of measuring cloud computing implementations along a range of dimensions.

The newly renamed CA Technologies now sees its future in exploiting "hypergrowth opportunities" in regions like Latin America.

It's no longer the oft-repeated story of the death of the mainframe but it's resurgence that is making the news, from a range of vendors.

I've been involved with the CMMI Made Practical event since it started. If you're interested in improving your processes, it's well worth attending.

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.

Mainframe costs are largely due to a combination of vendor pricing policies - and the inabilty of many customers to manage mainframe utilisation.