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In November 2009, IBM announced its acquisition of Guardium, a privately held company based in Waltham, Mass., and the planned integration of Guardium’s Database Activity Monitoring technology into IBM’s Information Management and Business Analytics and Optimization initiatives. Financial terms were not disclosed. Aberdeen’s research shows not only that DAM represents the most widely used non-native database security technology in current use, but also that DAM users actually experienced fewer audit deficiencies and fewer incidents of data loss or data exposure than non-DAM users.

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IBM Taps Power of DAM With Guardium Buy

IBM’s recent Connect 2009 analyst conference provided fascinating insights into one of the company’s most valuable assets — its software group organization. IBM has long been recognized as a purveyor of enterprise-class computing systems, but during the past decade, the company’s global services organization has become its prime driver of revenue and profit. How successful? Let’s just say that the competing vendors who love to publicly denigrate IGS are also working hard behind the scenes to emulate it.

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IBM Connect 2009 - Meeting Critical Business Challenges

Colorado Springs is an interesting place. Despite the name, there are no “springs” — it’s an arid place in a valley surrounded by the southern Rocky Mountains and Pikes Peak National Park. The springs were an invention of the railroads seeking to establish a destination for vacationers. Good idea; it’s a nice place. You can ride horseback through the mountains and see abandoned mines and homesteads as well as some rugged natural beauty. Last time I was there, we rode on some trails that were barely wide enough to accommodate our horses.

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Meet-Up Month: RightNow, Sage and Microsoft

There was a lot of news in the FOSS world last week, and it seems fair to say that the overall atmosphere was positive. First, following the widespread outcry that followed IBM and Canonical’s release of a Microsoft-free desktop package in Africa last month, the two companies announced last week that a similar offering is now available for companies in the U.S. as well. Then, from the ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead department, came word that SCO has fired its wildly litigious CEO Darl McBride.

Going Microsoft-Free, Saying Buh-Bye to McBride

The Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s, which are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and healthcare. The accusations stem from claims by IBM rivals that they’ve been illegally frozen out of the mainframe market because of IBM’s refusal to allow its mainframe operating software to run on non-IBM computers.

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IBM’s Mainframe Policies Draw DoJ Scrutiny