Posted on by Joey Lombardi

Supplier Report: 1/17/2015

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IBM

There is ALOT Of mainframe chatter this week from IBM.

  • Softlayer’s IaaS standing up to Amazon’s AWS:

    “IBM SoftLayer does some things well and some things cheaper,” Linthicum said. “And if people say, ‘should we consider them?’ I say ‘sure. Why not?’ If you need a bare-metal cloud, you don’t want to pay for network traffic, those sorts of things, they seem to rise to the top.”

    http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/2240238356/IBM-SoftLayer-IaaS-stands-up-to-AWS-with-free-support-networking

  • A counter-point to an article I shared last week: Don’t tell IBM the mainframe is dead…

    It’s very likely true that companies relying on Linux, Java, and databases to support their cloud computing, analytical, and transactional workloads would experience higher levels of performance at a lower overall cost if they deployed a small number of IBM z13 systems, rather than a larger number of any vendor’s industry standard x86 offerings to do the same work.

    http://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2015/01/16/ibm-says-mainframe-not-dead.aspx

  • IBM is named a Hadoop leader:

    “In a survey of more than 1,000 Big Data developers, analyst firm Evans Data Corp. found that IBM is the leading provider of Hadoop among developers, with more than 25 percent of respondents identifying IBM’s Hadoop as their principle distribution,” the company announced Tuesday. “The survey also focused on key growth areas such as machine learning and streaming analytics, where 18 percent of developers cited IBM InfoSphere Streams as their preferred application for machine learning, making it the second most popular choice in the category.”

    http://adtmag.com/articles/2015/01/15/ibm-big-data.aspx

  • Mainframe with Mobile focus:

    The z13 also claims to be the first system to make practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale and the first mainframe system with embedded analytics to offer real-time insights on all transactions. The latter capability helps drive real-time fraud Relevant Products/Services detection on business transactions by delivering “on the fly” analytic insights that IBM said are 17 times faster than comparable competitive systems.

    http://www.cio-today.com/article/index.php?story_id=03200113GNCW

  • IBM ranks first in registered patents (again)
    http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/01/12/4471247/ibm-ranks-first-in-us-patents.html?sp=/99/104/

Oracle

  • The man to watch at Oracle:

    Kurian’s sway within Oracle, as evidenced by the dynamic in these meetings as well as his growing responsibilities, has some current and former company executives convinced that he will one day succeed Ellison and run the technology company, which has a market cap of about $190bn. Even after Ellison named Hurd and Catz as co-CEOs in September, insiders said they believed Kurian was the man to watch at Oracle. One senior Oracle executive said that after Hurd and Catz were promoted, top executives worried about keeping Kurian motivated and happy. He continued to report directly to Ellison, now executive chairman of the board, along with Hurd, Catz and two others.

    http://www.gulf-times.com/opinion/189/details/423074/the-man-to-watch-at-oracle

HP