Applying analytics to business processes is much more than the use of a single tool. Using analytics successfully requires collecting the right data, using the proper analytical tools and making the results available to the right people at the right time.
Here's a view of Cisco's UCS announcement after hearing from IBM
Bringing together a smart thin-client and a mainframe-based, highly secure, well managed, virtualized industry standard system environment is the goal of this consortium. Customers needing military grade security while deploying popular PC applications ought to take notice.
IBM is focused on bringing its technical computing products to a larger audience. This announcement also offers hints as to IBM's future plans to bring intelligence to each component of a distributed computing environment.
IBM's pre-configured, pre-tested clusters take the uncertainty out of multi-system deployments. Regardless of how good the idea, IBM didn't think of this first. It is yet another legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation.
An interesting walk down memory lane with Vision Solutions' CTO.
SugarCRM has plans to offer its software as a service offering through other cloud service providers. An early example of this strategy is IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise.
Why to small firms send out unsolicited suggestions for year end trend articles?
Altair's executives comment on IBM's move and explain why the industry should care.
My colleague, Paula Rooney, recently posted IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features that pointed out that IBM is having a go at pushing Microsoft's Windows off of corporate desktops once again. Although the technology is different this time around, the concept is the same.