IBM has been an industry leader for nearly 50 years, helping CxOs and IT professionals secure their corporate infrastructures with solutions that go beyond just collections of niche products. IBM's customers rely on the planet's most secure databases, applications, operating systems, storage and servers. IBM offers comprehensive security solutions and services addressing compliance, applications, data, identity and access management, networks, threat prevention, systems security, email, encryption, virtualization and cloud security.
Through an end-to-end approach to security across people and identity, data, applications, infrastructure, compliance and the physical infrastructure, IBM's security capabilities are among the
top in the industry. With multiple leadership awards in market presence and technology innovation, IBM is able to offer more than 120 security products and the experience of over 15,000 researchers, developers and SMEs focused on security initiatives.
IBM clients gain the benefit of integrated, security solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of managing security solutions from multiple vendors.
IBM's world-class security support services provide the technical and operational expertise needed to maximize security investment. By providing a global network of support centers to assist customers worldwide, often in their native language, IBM partners with its customers around the clock to solve any implementation and technical issues.
This support is available regardless of client location or implementation method of hardware, software and/or managed security services. IBM provides a variety of support levels – from self-help to tiered levels – enabling customers to choose the one that best meets their needs. IBM is recognized for its outstanding customer support and consistently high customer satisfaction.
The company has staked a firm claim in the security marketplace and emerged as a market leader capable of meeting any global organization's security needs through an integrated, diverse and flexible portfolio of products and services across key industries.
With a strong, deep and broad security portfolio, IBM is in a strong position, able to leverage its considerable assets and reputation and provide innovative technologies and intellectual property that address both today's vulnerabilities and newly emerging threats.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
More 3D TVs launch, this time from Panasonic...but it's still kid's stuff
Yesterday, Samsung launched its 2010 line of 3D TVs, which includes LED, LCD, and plasma screens between 46" and 65", with prices that start at $1,999 and go up to $6,999. Today, Panasonic added its products into the mix at a launch event in New York City with partners Best Buy, 20th Century Fox, and DirecTV
The event marked the debut of a 3D home theater package that will sell exclusively at Best Buy that includes a 50" Panasonic Viera 3D plasma TV (VT20- $2,499), a Panasonic 3D Blu-ray player (BDT-300 - $399) and one pair of active shutter glasses for 3D viewing. It's comparable to the package Samsung announced yesterday, except that it comes with one fewer pair of 3D glasses. The whole package will go for $2,899, starting today.
Panasonic said it will also launch 54", 58", and 65" models later this year.
Unfortunately, there is still no new content available for the 3D systems, and therefore no really compelling reason to rush out and upgrade your HDTV to 3D right now, especially if you're not particularly fond of Pixar-style "family fun" films.
Early adopters will only be able to enjoy the 3D experience on a couple of features, such as Dreamworks' Monsters vs. Aliens which was announced at Samsung's CES press conference this year, and Sony's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which was announced at about the same time.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Executive Vice President of Marketing Mary Daily also appeared at the event today, to announce that the studio's first 3D Blu-ray title will be Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, another animated children's movie.
Panasonic's partner DirecTV appeared at the event today, and it is expected to launch at least three stations in 3D which will include sports and music video content, but those won't be until June at the earliest.
DirecTV says it is working with AEG/AEG Digital Media, CBS, Fox Sports/FSN, Golden Boy Promotions, HDNet, MTV, NBC Universal, and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to develop 3D programming that will debut in 2010-2011. All of DirecTV's 3D channels will also carry the Panasonic brand for a year.
More electronics manufacturers will be showing off their 3D TVs in the coming months, but content is still lagging behind, and there has yet to be a mostly live-action 3D movie that takes advantage of the new 3D Blu-ray spec, or even one that is made for adults with a taste for movies a little less lighthearted.
The event marked the debut of a 3D home theater package that will sell exclusively at Best Buy that includes a 50" Panasonic Viera 3D plasma TV (VT20- $2,499), a Panasonic 3D Blu-ray player (BDT-300 - $399) and one pair of active shutter glasses for 3D viewing. It's comparable to the package Samsung announced yesterday, except that it comes with one fewer pair of 3D glasses. The whole package will go for $2,899, starting today.
Panasonic said it will also launch 54", 58", and 65" models later this year.
Unfortunately, there is still no new content available for the 3D systems, and therefore no really compelling reason to rush out and upgrade your HDTV to 3D right now, especially if you're not particularly fond of Pixar-style "family fun" films.
Early adopters will only be able to enjoy the 3D experience on a couple of features, such as Dreamworks' Monsters vs. Aliens which was announced at Samsung's CES press conference this year, and Sony's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs which was announced at about the same time.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Executive Vice President of Marketing Mary Daily also appeared at the event today, to announce that the studio's first 3D Blu-ray title will be Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, another animated children's movie.
Panasonic's partner DirecTV appeared at the event today, and it is expected to launch at least three stations in 3D which will include sports and music video content, but those won't be until June at the earliest.
DirecTV says it is working with AEG/AEG Digital Media, CBS, Fox Sports/FSN, Golden Boy Promotions, HDNet, MTV, NBC Universal, and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to develop 3D programming that will debut in 2010-2011. All of DirecTV's 3D channels will also carry the Panasonic brand for a year.
More electronics manufacturers will be showing off their 3D TVs in the coming months, but content is still lagging behind, and there has yet to be a mostly live-action 3D movie that takes advantage of the new 3D Blu-ray spec, or even one that is made for adults with a taste for movies a little less lighthearted.
CA Expands Cloud Services with $350M Nimsoft Purchase
IT software behemoth CA has acquired yet another company as it moves to provide its emerging enterprise customers and managed-service providers with cloud-computing support. CA acquired Redwood City, Calif.-based Nimsoft, its fourth acquisition in the cloud-computing space, in a cash purchase valued at $350 million, CA announced Wednesday.
Nimsoft, a provider of monitoring systems used in data centers, is the fourth company that CA, formerly Computer Associates, has acquired in the past nine months. CA plans to integrate Nimsoft's assets into its cloud products and solutions business.
The acquisition, expected to close by March 31, will enable CA to tap into Nimsoft's more than 300 managed-service customers such as Hitachi, Barclays Capital, and Amway and its emerging enterprise customers (with revenues between $300 million and $2 billion).
Perfect Marriage or Bad Move
Nimsoft's reporting and monitoring technology has been used in public cloud services such as Google Apps for Business, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce.com. Its technology has also been used in internal applications and in both physical and virtual server environments.
CA's new acquisition is only one piece to its larger cloud-computing puzzle. CA acquired Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore, and last month announced plans to acquire 3Tera.
While Nimsoft attracted a solid customer base, it was having difficulties keeping up with the fast-moving market. Nimsoft hired both engineers and salespeople, but not fast enough, according to CEO Gary Read.
"We were already hiring additional salespeople and engineers as fast as we could, but there is a natural limit to how rapidly you can scale a business without breaking those things that are important to us, customer satisfaction being the top of the list," Read said.
When he was approached by CA, Read said, he was hesitant to begin any talks. That changed once CA told Nimsoft executives that the company was committed to Nimsoft's innovative efforts.
A Different Company
Since announcing the acquisition late Wednesday, Nimsoft has received negative feedback from people who worry that CA will run Nimsoft's products into the ground and that customers will suffer as a result of the acquisition.
"OK, I hear you," Read responded on his official blog. "And you know what, if this were many years ago I would agree with you. Back when I was a sales executive in late 90s, taking customers away from CA was easy because they were not well liked at all."
"But it's 2010 and CA is a different company," Read added. "Nimsoft is a great company and will continue to be great company inside CA."
Read and most of Nimsoft's 120 employees will make the transition to CA.
While CA has been aggressively acquiring cloud-computing companies, it still has its work cut out.
"Now, it isn't all unicorns and rainbows," said Drue Reeves, vice president and research director with the Burton Group. "CA has work to do to integrate these pieces into a product suite and convince customers that heterogeneous cloud management is the way to go and they are still missing a few ingredients because they are absolutely going to experience some competition in the cloud-management arena."
Nimsoft, a provider of monitoring systems used in data centers, is the fourth company that CA, formerly Computer Associates, has acquired in the past nine months. CA plans to integrate Nimsoft's assets into its cloud products and solutions business.
The acquisition, expected to close by March 31, will enable CA to tap into Nimsoft's more than 300 managed-service customers such as Hitachi, Barclays Capital, and Amway and its emerging enterprise customers (with revenues between $300 million and $2 billion).
Perfect Marriage or Bad Move
Nimsoft's reporting and monitoring technology has been used in public cloud services such as Google Apps for Business, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce.com. Its technology has also been used in internal applications and in both physical and virtual server environments.
CA's new acquisition is only one piece to its larger cloud-computing puzzle. CA acquired Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore, and last month announced plans to acquire 3Tera.
While Nimsoft attracted a solid customer base, it was having difficulties keeping up with the fast-moving market. Nimsoft hired both engineers and salespeople, but not fast enough, according to CEO Gary Read.
"We were already hiring additional salespeople and engineers as fast as we could, but there is a natural limit to how rapidly you can scale a business without breaking those things that are important to us, customer satisfaction being the top of the list," Read said.
When he was approached by CA, Read said, he was hesitant to begin any talks. That changed once CA told Nimsoft executives that the company was committed to Nimsoft's innovative efforts.
A Different Company
Since announcing the acquisition late Wednesday, Nimsoft has received negative feedback from people who worry that CA will run Nimsoft's products into the ground and that customers will suffer as a result of the acquisition.
"OK, I hear you," Read responded on his official blog. "And you know what, if this were many years ago I would agree with you. Back when I was a sales executive in late 90s, taking customers away from CA was easy because they were not well liked at all."
"But it's 2010 and CA is a different company," Read added. "Nimsoft is a great company and will continue to be great company inside CA."
Read and most of Nimsoft's 120 employees will make the transition to CA.
While CA has been aggressively acquiring cloud-computing companies, it still has its work cut out.
"Now, it isn't all unicorns and rainbows," said Drue Reeves, vice president and research director with the Burton Group. "CA has work to do to integrate these pieces into a product suite and convince customers that heterogeneous cloud management is the way to go and they are still missing a few ingredients because they are absolutely going to experience some competition in the cloud-management arena."
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