Even if you weren’t at IBM Pulse, trending right now on the web is chatter about IBM’s announcement to leverage open technologies pervasively in the development of its cloud offerings. With IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator—an integrated platform to standardize and manage heterogeneous hybrid environments—IBM is launching its first commercial offering based on OpenStack. And with SmartCloud Orchestrator, IBM is also redefining the scope of orchestration to encompass the streamlining and integration of all resources, workloads and services.... [More]

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Here at Pulse the best part, for me, are the client conversations. The efforts of clients to understand our IBM categories and for me to understand the customers’ scenario have led to interesting exchanges and raised some strange questions. Talking to a business partner, I found myself asking "What is the shape of your computation?" Does it look like a banana or a dolphin ? A whale tail or a multi-drop jet ? A rhizome or a Pacific atoll map ? Does it matter? It is certainly a useful insight to visualise the general shape of how... [More]

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My team and I have been heads down working to get  Smart Cloud Orchestrator , our newest cloud offering, to market.  Last week we had our annual  Pulse conference  in Vegas.  I'm just recovering from its aftermath now and wanted to write a short blog about the experience.  It should be no surprise that folks like James Governer of Redmonk offered some  interesting perspectives  along with  Infoworld , and  Wired .  While I am very pleased to hear the overwhelmingly positive press coverage, I am truly stoked about the direct customer feedback I... [More]

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Reposted from the Blue Medora blog entry:  Introducing the ITM for Virtual Environments XenApp 7.2 Agent The enterprise monitoring space offers a diverse portfolio of feature rich monitoring options, each providing a myriad of different metrics, graphs, and pieces of data.  In this diverse environment one of the market leaders is IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) , a longtime mainstay in the monitoring space because of its stability, diverse feature set, wealth of integrations with IBM and 3rd party technologies,  and overall platform... [More]

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