Its official (finally).  IBM New Zealand has made public their plans to build a data centre in Auckland to meet the needs of current and future clients.  This has got to be a great opportunity not only for IBM but for organisations looking for secure managed services e.g. cloud solutions, PaaS, SaaS etc. I am excited because it allows [...]

Can IT help consumers save 15% off their electricity bill? Can IT reduce the amount of investment in the electricity grid and push this money elsewhere? (pdf) Can IT help reduce waste in terms of green house gases and consumer consumption? The answer seems to be yes, well a maybe anyway.  This new low impact [...]

Question Why don’t WCM Actions show up in the Workflow stage view Answer I am working on a vmware image and it took a couple of minutes for the workflow actions I had created to be available within the Workflow stages view – phew! Sometime the best course of action is not to panic and go and [...]

What is your cloud for?

Question What is the story about integrating content from IBM DB2 Content Manager to IBM Web Content Manager. Answer You need a custom built application to expose the IBM DB2 CM content as an RSS feed.  Then using Web Content Integrator we can pump the data into Web Content Manager. Expect to hear some annoucements around [...]

In January/February 2009 Cindy Angel (from the HR Learning Team) led a team of 11 young women on a WYI Overseas Action Program in Cambodia . WYI is an Australian based, non-religious, non-political, not-for-profit organisation that runs volunteer programs in various parts of the world to give people the opportunity to make a difference and [...]

I am the guy that is slightly arrogant and disparaging about videos especially those of the viral kind.  I just wanted to post this video from YouTube because I enjoyed it.

I stumbled upon this presentation from Sowre an IBM Business Partner.  They have a lot of customers so I thought it would be useful to share this with the wider community. All the examples are screen shots of implementations. The original PDF can be found here. I uploaded to slideshare as a means of sharing. [...]

I contributed to a press article written by Brian Dooley and here it is in all its technicolour glory.  The piece is about Web 2.0 and how it effects resellers from an IBM perspective. Reseller News article on Web2.0

What is the evolution of social networking in IBM and what are the opportunities for University researchers to engage with IBM?  If you have ever pondered those questions then the slide deck below should help. I presented this deck to a local New Zealand University as part of their seminar series to demonstrate IBM’s research [...]