Channel News and Analysis - Channel Insider
Empowering the next generation Channel
 
security
Surprising Security Shortcomings After nearly a decade of threat warnings, evolving threats and billions of dollars in technology investments, you’d think that businesses have at least a baseline of IT security protections. Recent reports reveal some surprising security shortcomings in the business community.

Sponsored Links
  • SonicWALL VS Status Quo Solutions. No Contest
  • Sell BlackBerry® Technical Support and earn
  • Ready. Set. 7. See who’s building with Windows 7.
  • Special support for Microsoft partners in today’s economy
  • Green is a huge opportunity with HP PartnerONE


    		•  

    IBM Forms Information Integration Leadership Board

    in Channel News and Analysis

    DATE: 2004-02-18
    By Brian Fonseca

    Article Rating:starstarstarstarstar / 0
    Article Views: 881

    Rate This Article:
    Poor Best
    Add This Article To:
    Group will work closely in tandem with IBM to define and solve emerging data integration issues plaguing customer IT environments.

    IBM has assembled a dozen of its top customers from a variety of vertical industry arenas to form the IBM Information Integration Leadership Board, a group that will work closely in tandem with IBM to define and solve emerging data integration issues plaguing customer IT environments.

    The new board will meet regularly throughout the year to preview new business technology originating in IBM's Labs, as well as offer feedback and personal insight upon product investment, designs and prioritization best suited to automate the flow of information involving heterogeneous database and OS platforms, said Nelson Mattos, director of Information Integration, for Armonk, NY-based IBM.

    Resource Library:
    Members of the Information Integration Leadership Board include Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Kawasaki Motors Corporation USA, Ingram Micro Inc., and Taikang Life Insurance Co. Ltd, to name a few. Mattos said the board is expected to grow over time.

    Underscoring IBM's commitment to push out its DB2 Information Integrator product in conjunction with the board that bears its name, key marketing and partnering companies of the initiative will receive an IBM developer as a direct contact and available resource.

    Introduced last year, DB2 Information Integrator allows customers to access and manipulate a common data model across multiple XML, Web or content areas as if it were a single source. Components of the product include a Replication Server for Mixed relational Databases, a Federated Data Server and a Local Database Server.

    To read the full story, click here.





    Discuss IBM Forms Information Integration Leadership Board
     
    >>> Be the FIRST to comment on this article!
     

     
     
    >>> More Channel News and Analysis Articles          >>> More By Brian Fonseca
     



    		 

    Related Content

    Articles Labs/How-To Multimedia

    SIGN UP FOR CHANNEL INSIDER NEWSLETTERS
    Reliable, timely information on the business of technology. Sign up now.

    RSS SUBSCRIPTIONS
    XML
    Add Channel News, Product Reviews, Trends and Analysis to your RSS newsreader or My Yahoo!

    ZDE Services
    > Ziff Davis Enterprise White Paper Library

    > eWEEK Blogs

     

    CHANNEL RESOURCE CENTER
     
     
    Best Free Antivirus Apps
    Microsoft isn’t the first vendor to offer free antivirus software to consumers and small businesses. Several vendors have free general available versions of their malware protection suites. Their strategy: get customers interested and open opportunity to partners. Here are few worth free AV packages worth considering.
    View Slideshow

    Top 10 Most Profitable Vendor Certifications
    Solution providers that invest in vendor technical certifications are more profitable, sell more complex systems and have better relationships with their customers, according to the new Channel Insider/Amazon Consulting certification study. But not all vendor certifications have the same ROI. The following vendors have the best certifications for return on their partners’ investment.
    View Slideshow
    The IT industry is in the midst of a mass metamorphosis. Lines are blurring between networking technologies, storage, servers, software and telephony. Vendors that represent the tried and true establishment in one discipline are now making hard-right turns into new, largely unfamiliar and often competitive markets. Read on to see just a few of the major convergence plays of the last year.
    View Slideshow