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Apple and IBM Announce Partnership To Bring iOS + Cloud Services To Enterprises
jmcbain writes: According to an article on Recode, Apple and IBM have announced a major partnership to bring mobile services to enterprise customers. "The deal calls for IBM and Apple to develop more than 100 industry-specific applications that will run on the iPhone and iPad. Apple will add a new class of service to its AppleCare program and support aimed at enterprise customers. IBM will also begin to sell iPhones and iPads to its corporate customers and will devote more than 100,000 people, including consultants and software developers, to the effort. Enterprise applications will in many cases run on IBM's cloud infrastructure or on private clouds that it has built for its customers. Data for those applications will co-exist with personal data like photos and personal email that will run on Apple's iCloud and other cloud services."
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Sounds like the effing apocalypse to me.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Who woulda thunk it. THe PC Junior meets the Apple ][
Has StarFleet confirmed this?
(and the US Navy retired CVAN 65)
That didn't work out too well.
Hmmm . . . but then again . . . didn't Apple and IBM try to collaborate on something called Taligent and Kaleida . . . ?
Well, those two never managed to see the light of day. I believe Taligent is often used as an example of a "Death March" project. It ran for over seven years, but at any point in time during the project, it was only planned as a two year project.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The i* device revolution has been extremely annoying for enterprise IT since Apple has had almost zero understanding or interest in supporting us. Things like requiring plugging in an iphone to a PC to turn off the find my iphone feature with iOS 7 as an example (No I can't contact all 300 field users and ask them to mail me their iphone for a few days).
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
The new M-1 app worked flawlessly.
Wonder how many years and how much money will be expended before this mess self-destructs. Guess they're planning to use the $0.10 an hour Indian support people. Another fine joke.
Just like it was a huge success for HP and Carly Fiorina .
Ok, this hits way too close to home. I suspect Satya is up in his ivory tower right now, curled up in a ball and sobbing like a little girl. And I feel for him; it's going to be a gargantuan task to fend off Apple from taking chunks of Microsoft's red meat.
It probably hurts to post this doesn't it?
Microsoft and OS/2. That didn't work out too well.
It worked out great for Microsoft. Microsoft NT began life as OS/2 NT, the portable cross-platform version of OS/2. As IBM and Microsoft went their separate ways OS/2 NT was renamed Windows NT.
and the ability to bring good ideas to market, so not they just partner and buy things.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
30 years after the original 1984 commercial the rebels have been co-opted and are now partnering with big brother. That would make a great commercial: "2014". You could have the olympian women up on the screen and everything's colorful and everyone has prettier outfits but they're all still obedient slaves.
to hold all those mac pro's
Hmmm . . . but then again . . . didn't Apple and IBM try to collaborate on something called Taligent and Kaleida . . . ?
Apple, IBM and Motorola partnered for the PowerPC CPU. It worked out. PowerPC ultimately lost to Intel but that wasn't so much a PowerPC failure as it was that Intel worked friggin miracles with the x86 architecture. No one ever imagined they could get x86 to the performance levels that they did. I suppose technically they did not. Intel actually went to RISC but its hidden in the core of the CPU and only the legacy x86 api is exposed. x86 instructions are translated to risc core micro operations and these microps are what actually executes.
Most people looked at the RISC v CISC debate as one or the other, Intel thought they'd do both in one chip. CISC may be more expensive to work with but Intel certainly can afford to go the more expensive path.
A lot of people here seem to forget that the PowerPC processor architecture that powered the Macs for over a decade was developed jointly by Apple and IBM (and Motorola).
My point: Apple and IBM working together is certainly not unheard of.
Apple products in the Enterprise, what a frightening concept.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Hello,
The question going through my mind, is what does this mean for Lenovo? Lenovo acquired IBM's Personal Computing Division in 2004, and announced at the beginning of 2014 that they had reached an agreement to acquire IBM's x86 server business.
The fact that IBM chose not to partner with Lenovo for developing all these apps and services for Lenovo's Windows and Android tablets and smartphones is downright bizarre.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Dexter is a good dog.
Apple branded Power boxen coming back to a DC near you?
Apple's failed previous go at the enterprise plus IBMs track record of abysmal support for their products makes for a less than attractive enterprise solution.
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
I wonder if this means that Apple will finally port it's iOS management tools to run on something other than OS X server. Ever since Apple killed the XServe(and really even before that) this has been a major hinderance to wider scale enterprise adoption of iOS devices. The tools are actually quite good, but if you are forced to try to cram a bunch of mac minis somewhere or trying to get some mac pros in the server room, it's just a pain. Add to that lack of practical way to deploy OS X server instances on the cloud and you have enterprise customers just not interested in trying to screw around with iPhones. Hopefully this partnership will fix that.
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what about letting OS X server be on any VM running on any base hardware as well.
Minis and the iTrash aren't a substitute for a rack mounted server with redundant power supplies. Apple, it would be couch money for you to continue this product as well as a 17" laptop line, even if they aren't big sellers.
Is Apple dead yet? IBM, lacking innovation for decades, is the perfect match for Apple as it becomes the empty shell it must be. That can help make room for Chinese innovation as America declines, this is just part of the funeral march.
Think of it more as Google Federal.
'Microsoft, Google spar over federal contract" (04/11/11)
https://thehill.com/policy/tec...
ie getting beyond FISMA and into enterprise - reps with military, intelligence, gov contractor like skills to move iPhone and iPad into US agencies.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
If this means I have to switch to an iPhone for my work phone, I am against this.
If this means I can ditch this giant Lenovo brick for a Powerbook during my next upgrade cycle, then I am all for this
Not sure which of the two would win, they are battling in my head...
The sparks will fly but first they will need to have a regular status meeting to determine the color of said sparks.
what about letting OS X server be on any VM running on any base hardware as well.
Yeah, and maybe google will make a Windows Phone device. Some thing are just not going to happen....
And why would they want to do that? The purpose of Apple software is to sell Apple hardware. If there is a demand for VMs they are going to want those VMs to run on a reincarnated XServer.
Only on Slashdot would someone say that IBM wanting to get into the mobile game without starting from scratch = Apple not innovating.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
They also collaborated, along with Motorola, on the PowerPC. Admittedly, that's a dubious thing to note.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
IBM has morphed into a shell company with more emphasis on selling contracts than crafting solutions. They've sold or are selling off anything resembling their traditional HW offerings. IBM's value-add is what, exactly?
Organization? You must be joking..
You can remote wipe / lock / revoke if MDM is set up correctly. There is a way to do it that does not let you revoke. Don't do it that way. You can no-touch deploy as well. It's pretty robust, especially with 3rd party MDM tools. If you somehow let them walk away with your property, then don't do that, or call the cops. This last part is not a technology issue.
30 years after the original 1984 commercial the rebels have been co-opted and are now partnering with big brother.
In what way is IBM Big Brother any more? They have not been for a decade or more... if anything they are the Nerdy Brother, just hanging out on the side doing technical stuff while Microsoft gives them a wedgie every time he comes back home.
But in reality this pairing is to keep both companies strong against Google, not Microsoft.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
IBM is a hedge fund run by pirates. All Ginni does is look at which companies to buy and which divisions to sell like an investment portfolio. And when they're lucky they manage not to ruin their acquisition in 2 years. Either way they sell it off again and find someone new to kill. In the meantime they a few thousand employees, offshore some more work to Asia and pay the executives ever more absurd compensation.
For $3 billion dollars Ginni will see maybe an increase in Apple's presence in the corporate space from 1% to 3%. Apple will continue to do whatever the fuck they like whether it's compatible with IBM apps or not. And because the core of their business is still consumer sales, if that conflicts with The Diktat from On High IBM Grand Plan, they won't care.
Meanwhile IBM will become even more top heavy with hundreds of new directors and VP's who's job it is is to grind out huge spreadsheets tallying the metrics to report on the reporting of the status of their status reporting reporting. According to Roadkill 2015, in order for Ginni to make her EPS promises she'll have to fire 100% of US employment except for the executives. So good luck getting their new Apple partnership off the ground from India.