There are some themes I hear over and over again here at the Information on Demand Conference are consistent and straightforward: Information is a strategic asset, organizations need to create new value from information, yet so many companies still live in the land of legacy stovepipes. Yes, imagine your information infrastructure as a set of disconnected, "Castaway"-like, vertical islands of information, where one chimney doesn't know what the other is doing, because they're not connected and have no way of communicating and sharing... [More]

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It's no secret that IBM has invested significant resources across the company to help our customers start their transition to a service-oriented architecture. We continue our SOA focus with a series of events and Webcasts, including next Monday's live Webcast (Oct 9th, 11 AM EST), "SOA Demystified: Turn Your SOA Projects Into Lasting Business Success With Higher-Value Services," featuring the general manager of our WebSphere group, Robert LeBlanc, along with Judith Hurwitz of the Hurwitz Group. This Webcast will highlight several organizations... [More]

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Check out this story about the "hardware hacker." This guy's a man after my own heart. His name's Michael Ross, and he's a Scotsman who splits his home between Mamoroneck, NY, and the Scottish Highlands, and who collects old IBM computer systems...as in, really old...and really big. According to the article, Mr. Ross's collection of old IBM systems weighs about 15 tons and "could fill a 10-car garage." It includes an IBM System/3, System/32, IBM System/34, System/36, System/38, the game-changing System/360, and many, many more. You can see... [More]

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