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IBM announced enhancements to its SmartCloud cloud computing solution and highlighted several new customers and partners on the platform.IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced advancements to its SmartCloud Services and added customers and partners. IBM said it has seen rapid adoption of its SmartCloud portfolio as customers and partners move to the cloud. Big Blue manages massive amounts of data and client transactions in its cloud environments, including 1 million enterprise application users working on the IBM Cloud, more than $100 billion in commerce transactions a year in the cloud and 4.5 million daily client transactions conducted through the IBM Cloud. Moreover, customers and partners are increasingly choosing IBM SmartCloud services, software and hardware to expand into new markets, enable their mobile workforces and develop enterprise applications more efficiently, IBM said. “Companies are starting to understand that cloud is more than just about gaining efficiencies and cost savings; it s about driving the kind of fundamental innovation that provides lasting marketplace advantage,” said Paul Loftus, general manager of IBM Global Technology Services, in a statement. “We are helping all kinds of clients manage enterprise applications and processes in the cloud as well as leverage new cloud-centric applications while meeting their unique requirements for governance, security and portability.” For instance, TopCoder, which maintains a community of competitive software developers, is moving its global community of more than 400,000 developers to IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. These developers help organizations succeed by supporting their entire innovation process–from ideation, software engineering and analytics to implementation, testing and support. TopCoder provides high-quality application development, mobile development, user experience and graphic design, and big data project work through this competitive, multidisciplinary, global community of developers. Ogilvy amp; Mather, an international advertising, marketing and public relations agency, also turned to IBM to upgrade its IT environment. The IBM team is migrating Ogilvy from its current hosted environment to the SmartCloud for SAP applications hosted in IBM’s state-of-the-art, green Smarter Data Center in Raleigh, N.C. The Ogilvy solution includes the latest infrastructure technology and full SAP service, and it is prebuilt, preconfigured and requires minimal client resources to maintain the company’s entire production SAP landscape. IBM’s SAP Cloud solution also offers Ogilvy the benefits of solution scalability and the ability to add resources for development projects with a short-term commitment. “Given the attention to cloud-based solutions, it’s easy to be overwhelmed with comparisons and multiple options,” said Yuri Aguiar, senior partner and CIO at Ogilvy amp; Mather. “However, when it comes to critical applications like SAP, we were looking for a mature model that could scale and cater to our unique prerequisites. The SCE+ SmartCloud Enterprise+ offering fit this need very well and had the backing of a reliable global partner.” To read the original eWeek article, click here: IBM Advances SmartCloud and Adds New Customers, Partners

Part of being a leader is mentoring the next generation of management and helping your teams advance professionally. In his new book Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (Apress/available in May), author Michael Lopp uses insight gained from 20 years in software development to help managers do their jobs better. He ponders why anyone would leave the safe world of “bits and bytes” for the messy world of overseeing people, and sheds light on what he thinks it takes to be an effective manager. Asking these questions can help CIOs and other senior executives evaluate whether their employees have the right stuff to climb the corporate ladder.

Lopps technology career has taken him to companies including Apple, Netscape, Symantec and, as he puts it, “a startup that slowly faded into nothingness.” Lopp is also the author of the technology and management blog Rands in Repose.

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Family Finance: Moving back to Toronto from Guatemala for retirement might mean a reduced standard of living, but then again, they might just live longer

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