By Have you heard of the IBM v700 Storwize product? It’s IBMs virtualised storage device and it has some great bells and whistles on it. In my mind the greatest is EasyTier which is a technology that uses SSD disk as a sort of cache. Hot blocks of data are automaticaly pulled up off of SAS [...]
Enabling application installation in Lotus Notes
By AlanHamilton in General on 26 January
This is something I constantly have to search for when I am installing a Lotus Notes client and want to install something like the IBM Connections Status Updates sidebar plugin. To be able to install new features into Eclipse (Lotus Notes client) it is necessary to edit the plugin_customization.ini file which is buried in the [...]
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IBM Docs part 2 – Social Spreadsheets and Presentations
By AlanHamilton in General on 26 January
Following on from yesterday’s blog entry about Social Documents in IBM Docs I wanted to finish my little series with a look at the other parts – Spreadsheets and Presentations. Spreadsheets Spreadsheets are the staple of most businesses but I am sure 95% of us use only the very basic elements of a spreadsheet – [...]
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IBM Docs is the new name for the technology preview which was previously called IBM LotusLive Symphony. It essentially is IBM’s foray into the browser-based office productivity suite and competes at some levels with Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365. So what does IBM Docs have going for it that the others don’t? Its free [...]
If like me you enjoy working with technology as much as encouraging others to use it, you should find IBM’s Tech Trend report interesting reading. It presents the findings of a survey conducted by IBM with over 4000 IT professionals from 93 countries and 25 industries. In summary it highlights the following technologies as being [...]
What a roller coaster of a trip Lotusphere 2012 has been. It started off last Sunday with an excellent Business Development Day for Business Partners which was highly-focused, well timed and above all – relevant – to what we as IBM Business Partners need to understand from IBM. There was a repeat of the request [...]
I’m going to steal Alans thunder. Here is a link that he posted in LinkedIn http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/8697-quietly-ibm-becomes-the-enterprise-facebook?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog. IBM are in Social Software for Business in a big way. Why is business concerned about social software? The key phrase in the article is, IBM is looking to put its investments in data mining and analytics to use [...]
Day one at Lotusphere was excellent. The opening general session kicked off with OK GO (the guys with the video of them jumping around on treadmills) playing a few of their songs together with the excellent videos that go with them. This got everyone pumped up but that wasn’t all. The opening general session has [...]
Lotusphere Business Development Day is the first official day of the conference and is designed to give Business Partners the inside scoop on many of the upcoming announcements and to push home some of the techniques IBM use to provide Social Business to its customers. This year the opening general session was moved from its [...]
Seric Systems allows each employee 2 days off of work a year to go and work for a charity. In the past, employees have done things like, working as a driver for cancer charities or working as a volunteer in a charity shop. This year however I would like to donate my skills, contacts and [...]