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IBM had achieved its goal in consolidating its by far leading competitive positions in both middleware software and consulting services – the latter aiming at implementing on demand e-Business solutions in all types of organizations.
However, Big Blue’s appetite doesn’t seem satisfied yet, and has made 2 major moves this week in 2 other, yet complementary, businesses: storage & security.
Storage: in a market dominated by EMC & HP (resp. 3,36bn$ and 2,97bn$ against 2,2 for IBM, source: IDC) , the Network Appliance – IBM partnership to deliver high performance 4 GBytes / sec. storage solutions (through combining Power 5 processing with a double-decked hierarchical classification: Fiber Channel for often accessed files, ATA for archives; this high-end solution’s named DS 8000 Turbo) has proved outperforming. The result is a significant increase of IBM’s market share, from 12,8% in December 2004 to 15,9% in December 2005, against EMC’s market share, down from 21,8% to 20,6%.
Security: IBM intended today a 1,3bn$ bid to take over Atlanta-based security company ISS (Internet Security Services). The plan is to integrate ISS into IBM Global Services and tackle better their clients’ growing concerns on intrusion matters. More about the potential deal on InfoWorld.
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so various sources jeremie, could you tell us in your numerous posts a little bit more about you information sourcing process. thanks in advance.
maybe via “vias link”… and get an A+ for your blog !
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Okay, I’ll write a post some day about my favorite newsletters, good idea. Thanks for your grading by the way
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Jeremy
sorry jeremy. i am confused. you are not jeremie Berrebi…
Nice title, Jeremy. I always thought that IBM was moving away from providing hardware-solutions. With storage-solutions this seems less the case.
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To me, storage is actually service.
Jeremy
how could we define premium service in this industry?
datas multi back-ups? dedicated teams? and what more?
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The IBM solution backs data up according to the frequency at which data will need to be accessed. For instance, archives are stored in slow DAT storage space whilst recent and current files remain in very fast, and yet secured, hard drives.
Jeremy
[...] EMC is a world leader in the storage business but its market share having recently gone down (see post about IBM’s rising market share here), EMC and Dell have renewed their partnership in storage. [...]