IBM Pulse lights up Las Vegas: photos
IBM's annual Pulse conference kicked off in Las Vegas this week, with thousands of delegates from all over the world coming together to work on building smarter infrastructure.
IBM's annual Pulse conference kicked off in Las Vegas this week, with thousands of delegates from all over the world coming together to work on building smarter infrastructure.
The use of instant messaging by businees is skyrocketing, but there's a huge need for products to secure the transmissions.
Cyber-criminals, God, the universe, mafia, aliens, Nazis and IBM -- these are just some of the subjects touched upon in a video interview I conducted with Richard Thieme at the AusCERT security conference in Queensland last month.Richard Thieme walked up to me at AusCERT, took a close look at my badge, and then grilled me for calling him controversial in my conference build-up story.
After four long days of meetings, presentations, expos and skills sessions, IBM's annual Pulse conference came to a close with a bang, as the technology giant put on a 1960s-style dance night for delegates.
Martin Veitch reports on IBM's recent U.S. developer conferences, where the company's software arm laid out plans for pivotal areas including online services, standards and Linux.
In several of the post-Lotusphere discussions,I've made reference to the next DNUG (Deutsche Notes Users Group) conference,which will be done in conjunction with IBM/Lotus. The conferencewill be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 15-17 May, 2006. DNUGhas posted several pages of information about the event in English,with more to come as we finalize session selection over the next week orso.
The Web's most extensive mapping project ever shows that despite what we may think the Internet remains a one-way street.
Big Blue plans to launch a virtual reality project next month, and some of its now-private islands will open to the public soon.Photos: IBM gets a Second Life
Jonathan Schwartz promoted a new theme of participation at JavaOne in San Francisco, with announcements about Java in Blu-ray development, a renewed partnership with IBM and the open sourcing of server-side Java.
There will be tension between what the blended IT provider owns and what they client business owns. Knowing where the demarcation point is that separates the provider's intellectual property from the client's will be an area for especially careful consideration -- as early in the project as possible. IT providers and clients will need to partner more than tussle. IBM gets this and is already doing "play nice" vendor dance. There are still some steps to learn here for Oracle, Microsoft and SAP.