Passover (Pesach) is upon us, and the Seder is in 2 days, coming Monday.
Passover is to commemorate the exodus of the Jewish from Egypt, a journey took 40 years according to the Torah.
You can read more about Passover (lots more) at Wikipedia.
Archive for March, 2007
Passover is here
Published March 31, 2007 Uncategorized ClosedTags: israel, jewish, passover, seder, vacation
And on the 25th day…
Published March 26, 2007 Uncategorized ClosedTags: campaign, ibm, israel, marketing, servers, take back control
The Take Back Control (TBC) campaign tells the story of Ned, IT manager and Gil, high ranking executive with little IT knowledge at a medium sized company. Both are worried about their company’s infrastructure status, especially the servers. Well, Gil is more worried than Ned actually. They fear the servers are taking over the company. Why?
Their servers over heat, cost a lot, consume more power, can’t handle the workload, integrate poorly with other applications – among other things.
With IBM Blade Servers – you have no worries. Scalable, slim, low power consumption, integrate with most applications, including non-IBM and easy to manage, with IBM Software products.
RSS readers: if you can’t see the video, click here.
The video is also available on Flix.co.il – here.
You can read more about IBM Take Back Control at the site, ibm.com/il/takebackcontrol/
World’s Best Presentation Contest at Slideshare.net
Published March 26, 2007 Uncategorized ClosedTags: better presentation, ibm, marketing, presentations, web20
Slideshare.net, a site for sharing presentations, just announced a contest to find the world’s best presentation. Naturally I entered to the contest and uploaded a presentation I gave recently about Web 2.0.
If you can’t see the presentation, click here.
Feel free to digg it and vote for it… appreciate it :-))
Also seen at PresentationZen and How to change the world.
Back to Lotus Notes 7, after all
Published March 25, 2007 Uncategorized 2 CommentsTags: collaboration, ed brill, ibm, lotus notes, notes, software
Last week IBM Forum Israel hosted a Collaboration Event, with Ed Brill, WW Lotus Sales Manager for Software Group. The event was the second time I got to know Lotus Notes 8, the new (and still in Beta) version of IBM’s email client, Notes 7.
After some chats with technical colleagues from SWG I decided to download the beta version, a hugh 1GB file, that occupies some 1.6GB installed… not for everyone.. I backup all my C:/notes/data directory (another 4GB), and then started the process. Good to know that Lotus are thinking of bi-directional (bi-di) languages, and the installation was in Hebrew.. cute.
My first impression was very good. The new UI (user interface) is cool, good colors, web 2.0 kind of icons and some great improvements to the calendar and contacts views. It worked well, at first, but slower than my Notes 7. There was a delay between the actual click and the action itself, although the machine never froze, and you could work on other views while the inbox was refreshing. Some of my DB took a little longer to open, but I guess that an increased RAM would make it better (my T41 have 1GB, with Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz).
I roll backed to Notes 7 after a week of usage, for 2 main reasons:
First – the speed. Maybe an additional 512MB would make it better. 1GB would make a hugh difference. But with the current specs, it’s just too weak to support Notes 8.
Secondly, I think it’s a glitch in the system, surely not intentional, but I couldn’t switch my keyboard with Alt+Shift between Hebrew/English. Just didn’t work. Only in Notes 8. I had to go to the language bar and switch from there. Bothering, although I know the guys from SWG are ‘living’ like this for 2-3 months now… so it’s not that bad.
Once Notes 8 is official, I’ll definitely upgarde, but only after a 1GB boost to my RAM. Notes 8 is much more friendly, user interface is excellent and the collaboration options – which I haven’t elaborated, but you can read all about them here – are phenomenal. And I haven’t mentioned the possibility to create/edit Office documents, in Notes, what IBM is calling ‘productivity tools’.
Notes is climbing. Fast.
More pictures from STKI 2007
Published March 24, 2007 Uncategorized ClosedTags: ibm, innovation, israel, ps3, stki
My earlier post was published during the event itself, so I had little time to browse through the pictures and posted only 2.
Here are some more pictures from the event, were IBM took center stage at the welcome hall, showcasing PS/3 for the 2nd time in Israel, but 1st to the open public. As you can see from the pictures, IBM ‘game arena’ was packed all day…
Here you can see an overview of the IBM ‘gaming arena’, early morning, just before the crowd came rushing in… We had 4 PS/3 consoles, and Sony’s LCDs to accompany the Full-HD capabilities of the console.
STKI summit is an annual event that attracts many IT executives, including IBM’s. Between the networking and the lectures I was able to sit 2 unit executives for some Formula 1 action. On the left is Michael Oran, Systems and Technology Group (STG) Manager and Zeev Gal-Tzur, Software Group (SWG) Manager, going head-to-head. Also notice the Bluetooth capabilities of PS/3 – the game controllers are connected wireless to the console itself.
PlayStation 3 up close and personal. The Israel version is the high-end version, the only one available in Europe (at the US you have 2 vesrions). Israel’s version includes a 60GB HDD, memory card readers, bluetooth and wi-fi. And the picture quality is, well, awesome!!
Last picture I thought I give myself some visibility. On the left that’s me, middle is Nirit Icekson, IBM Global Services marketing manager and on the right is Roni Aviv, Avaya Israel marketing manager. Avaya are a business partner of IBM Israel and also showcasing their solutions at IBM Forum Israel, which is IBM Demonstration and Conferencing Center. I forgot to mention that at IBM, I manage IBM Forum Israel… hence the picture…
