IBM recently released figures estimating that worldwide digital archive capacity is expected to increase at a nearly 60 percent compound annual growth rate by 2012, which means the total amount of data will have increased by 800 percent during that time. Organizations are facing a sharp increase in the amount of digital content that must [...]

RedMonk Analyst James Governor, who has had one ear to the IBM space and another to the burgeoning SOA/Enterprise 2.0 space for some time now, recently reflected on the changing role of CICS, once the standard middleware for mainframes. (Around before middleware was even called middleware.) James wonders whether IBM’s pitch to abstract CICS functions [...]

“This is the era of extreme integration… We’re not too far away from seeing a million-server data center.” This prediction by Kirk Skaugen, vice president and co-general manager at Intel Corporation, was part of an experts’ panel at the recent Windows 2008 launch, hosted by Al Gillen, vice president at IDC. (Archived video available here [...]