Users will get hands-on Wings training using PCs and an actual RPG application.

Analytics emerges as key technology to solving urban challenges, says IBM.

While overall IBM revenue and income generally were up, revenue from the Systems and Technology Group (STG) was down 8 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010, while STG pre-tax income was down 33 percent. Total systems revenues decreased 7 percent while quarterly revenues from Power Systems did increase 6 percent against 2010, yet revenues from System z mainframe server products were down 31 percent.

Mobile devices, including the iPad and iPhone, helped drive strong online holiday retail sales, according to IBM. The U.S. online retail sector delivered 7.5 percent growth in December 2011 compared to the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM. The company's findings follow a strong November where both "black Friday" 2011 and "cyber Monday" 2011 delivered double-digit growth over 2010. Delivered as part of IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative, the IBM Benchmark December holiday report reveals a number of significant trends.

New IBM software encourages safe, secure social networking.

A leading car hire and commercial leasing firm in Israel, uses uniPaaS to develop a real-time fleet management system for smartphones.

The worldwide Ethernet switch market reached record revenues of $5.9 billion in the third quarter of 2011 (3Q11), representing strong growth of 6.1 percent year over year and 10.9 percent quarter-over-quarter. Meanwhile, the worldwide router market also grew but at 2.9 percent year over year in 3Q11...

Certification is a new step in partnership between IBM and Alvarion.

IBM and Eurotech have announced that they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices. The technology, which could become the basis for a new standard of mobile connectivity and interoperability, will be contributed to the Eclipse Foundation open source community. The Eclipse Foundation, founded by IBM in 2001, is celebrating its 10th anniversary at EclipseCon in Germany.

Company ships Zing 5.0, the Industry’s only JVM that is specifically architected and optimized for Linux.

Among the numerous updates are enhancements designed to optimize ISV support, while improvements to DB2 for i address performance, administration of secure database connections, and application development and performance tuning. 

Company extends its relationship with Amazon Web Services to run SAP in the cloud. 

New solution lets direct marketers create and print a combined shipping and return label, or packing slip and invoice, with one simple solution.

Organizations can unify VDI solutions around a single operating system and management platform to better realize advantages of desktop virtualization. 

SPHiNX 1U form factor virtual tape appliance announced at COMMON designed for small business, while 3U version now holds up to 35TB internally, even more compressed.

Announcement marks a major step in company's strategy to automate log and compliance reporting for IBM Power Systems and other virtualized environments.

Enhancements include new dashboard views showing risk exposures, multi-step attack scenarios, risk metrics by network region, and granular control of access to sensitive risk information.

New database monitoring capability gives system managers a detailed level of insight for audit-friendly "proof" and real-time alerts.

Tthe IBM System z Academic Initiative allows schools either to use their own mainframe resources or access them at no cost from IBM using innovative cloud computing technologies.

IBM announced this week that technology allowing IBM zEnterprise System users to integrate Microsoft Windows applications into the mainframe environment--an industry first--will become available December 16. The new capability will allow clients with multi-tier applications--for example, Windows applications connected to mainframe data--to be integrated and consolidated on the same system. 

Today's computing accomplishments just "scratch the surface" of what's possible with many-core and extreme-scale computing systems. 

The new IBM i Solution Edition is designed to make it easier and less expensive for customers to acquire and deploy the data warehouse management software on Power System i.

New features in V7 can both limit and audit internal user access.

The feature will help developers spot errors early and improve development speed by allowing them to view results before compiling.