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Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter

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Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
Oct 26
2015
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
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In This Issue...
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
NEWS FLASHES
With the Exception of Mainframes and Cloud, IBM Suffers Tough Quarter
IBM Teams With Twitter and Weather Company to Leverage Open Data
‘Spark-as-a-Service’ Launched by IBM
Dynatrace Beefs Up Performance Analytics Offerings
Cirba Adds Predictive Intelligence to IBM Cloud Orchestrator
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
NEWS FROM SHARE
Is Your Head in the Clouds? 
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
THINK ABOUT IT
Why the Mainframe Continues to be IBM’s Money Machine
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
News Flashes
With the Exception of Mainframes and Cloud, IBM Suffers Tough Quarter
IBM said it had a tough third-quarter, with net income of $3.0 billion, down from $3.5 billion during the same period a year ago, a decrease of 14%. Total revenues for the third quarter were $19.3 billion, down 14% from the third quarter of 2014. Not all was gloom, however, for Big Blue.

Full Article 
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
IBM Teams With Twitter and Weather Company to Leverage Open Data
IBM is collaborating with Twitter and The Weather Company to help companies cut through the noise of unstructured data, turn streaming data into insights and change critical business outcomes across industries such as retail, insurance, and media & entertainment. The solution, IBM Insight Cloud Services, employs open data sets and business-owned data.

Full Article 
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
IBM Launches ‘Spark-as-a-Service’
IBM has redesigned more than 15 of the company’s core analytics and commerce solutions with Apache Spark  helping to accelerate their real-time processing capabilities. IBM also announced the availability of its Spark-as-a-Service offering – IBM Analytics on Apache Spark – on IBM Bluemix following a successful 13-week Beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by data.

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Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
Dynatrace Beefs Up Performance Analytics Offerings
Digital Performance software company Dynatrace has announced a series of new solutions and services that offer performance, competitive and user analytics powered by collective intelligence; new automation for cloud and continuous delivery environment; support for next-generation virtual network environments; and a complimentary version of Dynatrace Application Monitoring and User Experience Management (UEM) for developers and testers.

Full Article 
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
Cirba Adds Predictive Intelligence to IBM Cloud Orchestrator
Cirba Inc., a provider of software-defined infrastructure control solutions, announced its integration to IBM Cloud Orchestrator. IBM Cloud Orchestrator customers will now be able to leverage Cirba’s predictive, policy-based analytics to gain software-defined control over their environments, in order to automate and safely optimize application hosting, workload placement and VM sizing decisions.

Full Article 
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
News From SHARE
Is Your Head in the Clouds? 
While cloud computing grows and mainframe users continue to rely on existing architecture and networks, connecting mainframe applications to new cloud services as well as existing infrastructures will become increasingly important. During SHARE in Orlando, Chris Leonard and Mayur Raga of IBM UK Laboratories Limited addressed the impact of this convergence on MQ networks.

Does a traditional MQ network provide value in the cloud era? What are the main challenges the cloud presents? What other considerations should there be for MQ networks and cloud computing? The answers are waiting for you on mindSHARE.

Click here to read more.
Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
Think About It
Why the Mainframe Continues to be IBM’s Money Machine
The latest IBM quarterly results (Q3 2015) show that the mainframe continues to be a leading revenue producer for Big Blue. The reasons for this are evident, according to a new survey of mainframe sites conducted by our friends at BMC, which shows that security, availability, a superior data server, and transactional throughput are the primary drivers for the continued increase in mainframe capacity, which is especially timely as the digital economy increasingly runs on transactions.

Security was the largest factor for continued investment in the mainframe with 56% responding that they see the security strengths of the platform as an advantage. This was followed closely by availability, as 55% of respondents leverage the mainframe's availability benefits. Another notable data point this year is 48% of customers are continuing their investment because of the mainframe's centralized data server capability, and 45% said their transaction throughput requirements are best suited to the mainframe.

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Mainframe and Cloud are Bright Spots in IBM's Third Quarter
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