
Big Iron anything but rusty at IBM
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I am glad not everyone is on vacation in August!
Brian Womack from Investor's Business Daily interviewed IBM vice president David Gelardi in the article[Big Iron Anything But Rusty For Mainframe Pioneer IBM]. Here are some excerpts: "IBM says revenue for its mainframe business rose 32% in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, easily outpacing overall sales growth of 13%.A big driver was February's launch of IBM's next-generation mainframe line, the z10, its first big upgrade since 2004. IBM spent about $1.5 billion on the new line. IBM offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than HP or Sun can offer. For more about the IBM System z10 EC, see my posts last month:
And, of course, IBM is first-to-market on many mainframe enabling features in disk and tape storage systems. The combination of IBM servers with IBM storage systems is hard to beat!
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Biggest Mistakes of 2006
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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' This last week of 2006 seems like a good time to recap the past year, and review the upcoming new year.That said, a good start is PC World's Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006.
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Bob Hoey Does It Again
Last year, I posted about IBM VP Bob Hoey's three[Training Videos]about selling to the mainframe customer. Well, his team has done it again. Here are the next three in the series: Of course, not all of our YouTube videos are this silly. Others are focused on serious topics.Take for example this IBM UK Whiteboard session:
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Brain Rules for Presenters
The same can be said for presentations that you give in foreign countries. Both in Japan and India, I had plenty of visuals to complement the text on the page, and the words that I spoke. Shawn over at [Anecdote] blog points to this greatpresentation by Garr Reynolds, author of [Presentation Zen]. The slide deck below has some key takeaways and quotes from Dr. John Medina's latest book "Brain Rules" that apply to presentations. As the world becomes more globally integrated, communicating visually will be an important skill to develop.
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Confirmation Bias
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Tony Asaro has a nice piece about Confirmation Bias
There's nothing worse that feeling you made a bad decision.My favorite is buying something, and then finding it at a lower price somewhere else. Or worse,being in a country where you haggle over prices, and finding out that I might havebeen able to haggle further down than what I had paid. Of course, the solution to making better, more informed decisions, is getting more information.That's what I love about being in the storage business.[Read More]
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