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| IBM and Sun Introduce New One-terabyte Storage Tape Drives |  | It looks like the latest news from the storage market finally bring something else than just details on Solid State Drives. These days, the entire media has been ablaze with talks about the most recent announcements made by IBM and Sun Microsystems, which have once again brought tape storage drives into the spotlight. While Sun's announcement was made on Monday, IBM came through with its new product just yesterday.
At the onset of ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 8-Core IBM Power7 with Opteron Soket Compatibility |  | IBM is determined to go aggressive on the microprocessor market and it prepares a strong weapon for the action, a 45nm octo-core giant, called Power7. This little monster looks like a highly capable device, offering up to 256 GigaFlops of performance; it is rumored to be delivered on the market featuring a clock speed of about 4.0GHz and four threads per core. The launch date is said to be in 2010.
It seems that Big Blue inte ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Takes Server Market Leadership |  | According to the research and advisory firm Gartner, IBM has managed to take the lead in the server market. IBM's success marks the company's victory against competitor HP, which earlier this year was reported to have claimed the leadership precisely in the same segment of the market. These recent rankings are based on the revenues of several companies, meaning that the leading company – IBM, in this case - has recorded the highe ... [read more >>] | | 07 July 2008, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Acquires PSI, CCIA Reveals Antitrust Concerns |  | The latest acquisition made by IBM, that of Platform Solutions (PSI), a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, ended a law issue between the two companies, but also raised antitrust concerns from an IT trade group. IBM filed a law suit against Platform Solutions in November 2006, accusing it of patent infringement through the creation of computers that allowed the usage of IBM's System z operating systems and software on ma ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Info Gets HP Executive Indicted |  | Atul Mahotra joined the HP team two years ago, in May 2006, as VP (short for vice president) of the printing division. After just four months he was fired after he was accused of leaking private information from IBM, his previous employer, to his current employer. Mahotra was brought to justice and the San Jose court found him guilty. The data in question was sent in the form of an e-mail message to a senior VP and it contained p ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Top500 Supercomputer List Released |  | The 31st Top500 supercomputer list was released today at Dresden, Germany, and it brings good news, both for some of the companies involved and for the environmentalists. The dominance is held by IBM, with 210 systems out of 500, as well as 5 of the top 10. The second company on the list is Hewlett-Packard, which has 183 of the fastest computers, the higher ranked being the No. 8 EKA, housed at Computational Research Laboratories' dat ... [read more >>] | | 18 June 2008, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM to Use Modular Design for Greener Data Centers |  | IBM announced that the company is on its way to launch an expanded series of data centers featuring a modular design which would enable them to get their energy consumption down to 50% in comparison to existing data centers.
The move goes in line with the Project Big Green the company launched last year following the idea that back-end computing could be made less energy intensive. 2 percent of the energy consumption around t ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 08:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Forthcoming ThinkPads Get Details |  | Don't you just love it when the web offers you bits and pieces of information about a product that hasn't yet been officially released? That information might just make you reconsider a future acquisition. And that happens because the yet-to-be-released product might look more promising than what you initially intended to acquire. This time, we are talking about three of IBM's products, which are part of the compan ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2008, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Enables Water-Cooling for 3D Chips |  | IBM, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware and systems, has recently announced that it delivered the first working prototype of its water-cooled 3D chips. The new 3D chips are designed to operate with multiple layers of circuits and components stacked on top of each other. This design is said to be better than the one that lays all components side by side.
Although the new design can improve the performance of a processor, [ADMARK ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 06:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Updates Its Blade Server Lineup with PlayStation 3 Chips |  | IBM has just introduced a new blade server offering for high-performance computing, powered by Cell processors. The new offering is especially targeted at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging, as the updated Cell processor comes with better support for floating point operations.
According to the company, the new BladeCenter QS22 runs on PowerXCell 8i processors featuring the latest Cell micro-archite ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rambus Joins IBM, Spansion in MirrorBit Flash Memory Quest |  | Rambus has inked two new and important licensing deals with IBM and Spansion on the DRAM market. The memory specialist has just announced that it licensed IBM its multi-protocol serial/deserializer (SerDes) cell technology that offers improved performance in networking, server and general ASIC applications.
According to IBM, the Rambus technology will help the company to implement a high-performance solution in its 45-nanomet ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| FaceBook, Running on 10,000 Web Servers Near You |  | The extremely popular social networking website Facebook met a huge growth since it was first launched on February 4, 2004. The user influx and the increased amount of horsepower required to run a Web 2.0 site led to significant infrastructure upgrades that extended the number of Facebook servers.
The social networking service now spreads across two data centers and counts no less than 10,000 servers hosting the profiles of m ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Fights Web 2.0 With iDataPlex Servers |  | IBM has pulled out of its sleeve a new series of Web 2.0-ready servers in the iDataPlex family. The new computers are especially tailored to suit the demands of Web 2.0 sites, and can face the heavy traffic usually associated with popular social networking sites.
According to the company, the iDataPlex architecture can accommodate popular domains such as MySpace, Facebook, or Hi5, targets that usually run on entire data cente ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Makes New Acquisition on Storage Land |  | IBM announced today the acquisition of Diligent Technologies, this being the third buy Big Blue make in the storage fields. Through this move, IBM plans on adding data de-duplication technology developed by Diligent Technologies to its own storage portfolio. In the last few months IBM has made two more grabs in the area, including Softek, NovusCG, and Arsenal Digital Solutions. The company also purchased the Israeli-based XIV in ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Expands Mac Pilot Program |  | It is not often that we read news concerning both Apple and IBM. The last time we mentioned the two together was when Duke University folks and the University of Waterloo conducted ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hitachi Cancels its Exit From HDD Market, Starts Consolidating its Business |  | Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced that it dropped its plans of exiting from the hard-disk drive business, and is now gearing up to make a comeback by cutting down on production costs. The news was broken by Hitachi's storage division head during yesterday's conference.
Hitachi's decision is somewhat surprising, given the fact that the company reconsidered its options two days after its arch-rival Seaga ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Expects Faster and More Energy-Efficient 32-Nanometer Chips |  | IBM's upcoming High-K Metal Gate micro-technology will bring faster and more energy-efficient chips built on the 32-nanometer processing node. The miraculous technology will replace the existing polysilicon gate and the silicon-dioxide gate dielectric with more efficient, hafnium-infused metal gates and dielectrics.
According to the company, the advent of the High-K technology would allow the companies to achieve 35% mor ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Pitches at New 3 Mbps HD Encoding Technology |  | US-based conglomerate IBM plans to unveil a revolutionary encoding technology, that would make it possible to stream HD media at up to 3Mbps speeds across the web. The new technology has been developed in collaboration with the software firm Broadcast International.
According to a joint statement prepared by the two partners, the encoding technology will be premiered at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters confere ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Paves the Way to Nano-Scale Solid-State Drives |  | IBM is currently working on a new breed of memory chips, that is alleged to deliver extended reliability at cheaper costs than the existing DDRAM offerings. According to the company, the new type of memory is an interesting mixture of the technologies used in solid-state storage media and hard-disk drives.
Shortly put, the "racetrack" memory will combine the absence of moving parts in SSDs with the inexpensive, non-v ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Unleashes 5GHz Power6 Processor Server Line-Up |  | IBM has unveiled a new Power6-based version of its highest-end Unix server in the Power 595 family. The new systems feature no less than 32 dual-core 5GHz Power6 chips and are cooled with a water-based solution.
The server line was unveiled during the company's customer event in San Francisco and promises to deliver 40 percent increased performance at lower costs of ownership. The servers' energy efficiency is impres ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba's SpursEngine, Inspired by PlayStation 3's Cell Processors |  | Japanese manufacturer Toshiba has begun sampling units of its SpursEngine chip, a high-performance co-processor inspired from IBM's Cell processor, that powers Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. The new chip is designed to take care of intensive applications for graphics design and image manipulation.
The SpursEngine comes to complement the main processor, and not to replace it. It is extremely suitable for handlin ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM's New Supercomputer Meets Hardcore Liquid Cooling |  | Supercomputer specialist IBM has unveiled its latest supercomputer creation, touted to be five times more powerful and 60 percent more energy-efficient than its predecessors. The company's achievement is quite impressive, since the supercomputing world is usually getting its performance boosts from pumping up more energy into the already power-hungry behemoths.
The company managed to cut down on energy costs by implementi ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Gets Cleared for Government Contracts |  | The United States Environmental Protection Agency has cleared IBM from the one-week interdiction of seeking new contract opportunities with the US Federal Government. Although the suspension lift means that the company can get back into business, the EPA investigat ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asustek Slams IBM With Patent Infringement Countersuit |  | Computer manufacturer Asustek has just filled a lawsuit against the US-based conglomerate IBM over an alleged patent infringement regarding its intellectual property. Asustek's legal action comes as a response to a previous lawsuit filled by IBM against the Taiwanese vendor on the same grounds.
The system vendor filled its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, seeking relief from the ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Data Centers Get New Use: the Most Expensive Swimming Pool Heater |  | IBM's environmental concerns have put data centers to an unconventional and extremely odd use. One of the recently unveiled data centers in Uitikon, Switzerland, is used to heat a nearby swimming pool.
The data center has been announced yesterday and is the result of IBM's joint collaboration with GIB-Services. The highly-secure data storage facility is located in a former military bunker and will be used by GIB to ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Gets Red Light For Government Contracts |  | US-based conglomerate IBM has been reportedly suspended from striking new agreements with the United States federal government for an indefinite period of time. According to a post on the General Services Administration's website, the company is now blacklisted by the Environmental Protection Agency as of March 27th.
The company is now under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation as it is accused of possi ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Becomes One of Four Investors in EnterpriseDB |  | IBM has decided to invest in the startup that commercializes PostgreSQL database, EnterpriseDB. This comes at about four weeks after the lock up of the open source MySQL database system by Sun Microsystems. This way, IBM joins Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures, and Valhalla Partners in investing in EnterpriseDB. This move comes as a surprise for some, as IBM does not usually invest in startups. Although it has a Venture C ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 11:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Introduces CPU Optical Switching Technology |  | IBM has managed to achieve a new kind of processor switch based on optical technology, that could lead to faster data rates in the near future. Aimed at replacing copper nanowires with photons, the latest achievement in optoelecronics opens the gate to a new era in computing.
The brand-new optical switch is still in its early stage, and has its limits, but it's the first working approach at replacing electrons with pure r ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM, Hitachi Team Up for 32-Nanometer Node Research |  | IBM and Hitachi have jointly announced their first-ever partnership for researching the next chip technology for 32-nanometer semiconductors. According to the company officials, IBM and Hitachi will use brand new technologies that would allow them to improve the measurements in the transistor variations.
The two companies will join forces at IBM's Thomas J. Watson center in New York, as well as at the College of Nanoscale ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 12:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Build Your Own Supercomputer Using A Rack Of PlayStation 3s |  | The brand-new PlayStation 3 from Sony is surely one of the best recipes for having fun. If the average user would enjoy setting off into a difficult mission with Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series or smashing some alien creatures in the Alien versus Predator, some true tech geeks would put gaming consoles to new and amazing use.
Astrophysics scientist Gaurav Khanna is one of the latter kind of console users. Such tech geeks ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Details Upon 300Gbps Optically-Connected Circuit Board |  | IBM described a new technological breakthrough in data transfer that is alleged to be world's first optically-connected circuit board during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Diego. The company engineers have detailed upon the process and said that the 300-Gbits/sec optical interconnect has been printed on a conventional PC board using lithography. The team also used gallium arsenide transceivers that would ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 12:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Platform Solutions to Compete with IBM on the Mainframe Market |  | Mainframe computer manufacturer Platform Solutions has just introduced a new and bigger mainframe machine powered by Intel's Itanium processors. The statement comes right after its competitor, IBM, announced the System Z10 series of mainframe computers.
... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 05:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM, AMD to Report the First Chip Built With Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography |  | AMD and IBM engineers have jointly announced a new advancement in the microprocessor design: they succeeded in creating a 45-nanometer processor using full Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography on its square silicon surface. Their achievement may be regarded as a new milestone in chip design and open the gates for semiconductors with structures of 16-nanometer or even smaller.
The test chip was created using 193-nanometer De ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Launches Mainframe Computer, Gears Up for Hybrid CPUs |  | IBM's mainframe computer has just been officially launched and the company is currently planning on implementing the latest open-source software as well as multi-threading or hybrid processor technologies. IBM's new mainframe, the System z10 is the company's first to be built around a quad-core chip especially tailored for the machine and runs at a blazing speed of 4.4 GHz.
According to the company, the new main ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 02:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Gets Ready for Atomic Memory Breakthrough |  | IBM Corporation researchers announced on Friday that they successfully managed to manipulate individual cobalt atoms. This achievement may be regard as a technological breakthrough that will pave the way to atomic memory, where the bit-cells will hold just a few atoms.
The nowadays process involves heavy use of atoms. The densest memory material cannot go lower than one million of atoms per bit. IBM's engineers, however d ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 14:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Canonical Will Resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 |  | Canonical will resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 as software, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. The software will be used as a virtual appliance running on VMware.
Canonical is also offering an annual support contract for IBM DB2 Express-C through shop.canonical.com. This is the first time when Ubuntu users will be able to buy an annual subscription service directly from the company.
IBM DB2 Express-C is a free – as in no-charge – ed ... [read more >>] | | 22 February 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Is Working on DNA-Based processors |  | IBM scientists are currently researcher on linking DNA molecules with conductive carbon nanotubes. The procedure is extremely complicated because of the small scale the engineers are forced to work at. Once the carbon nanotubes are interconnected, the DNA can be shed off, leaving just an orderly grid of nanotubes. The grid itself is a data storage matrix, but at the same time it can perform basic calculations.
"These are ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Environmental Learning MMO Launched by IBM |  | I am always really glad to see, when I hear about the development of a game, that it only wants to educate the youth and goes beyond what the market really wants: blood, violence and nudity. Unfortunately, this kind of games (the learning ones) ar ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Montalvo Cooks Opteron and Cell Hybrid Processor, Takes Intel Down |  | Montalvo Systems is secretly designing a new breed of energy-efficient multicore processor. The company has finished the design of a chip aimed at mobile computing. When it gets finished, it will be compatible with all the x86 software that can run on both AMD and Intel chips.
Despite the software compatibility, the chips built by Montalvo systems will be radically different from any existing chip design. For instance, its cor ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Analysts: Should Nvidia Take Over AMD? |  | Nvidia has just finalized the acquisition of physics processing card manufacturer Ageia and seems to get ready for yet another merger that will change the IT industry forever. Technology analyst Doug Fredman has estimated that Nvid ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sun's Rock Processor Gets Delayed For Additional Testing |  | Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimations claimed that the ship will be available for the second half of 2008.
"Rock is an entirely new design an ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 45-Nanometer IBM Cell Processors Are On Their Way! |  | Sure thing, this year's International Solid-State Circuits Conference brought a multitude of novelties in the processor industry. We have seen Intel's two billion transistors behemoth, as well as Sun's 16-core server chip, and there are many yet to come. The latest surprise in terms of processors comes from IBM, who announced a 45-nanometer version of its popular Cell BE chip.
The Cell processor powers Sony' ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Future of Processors, Painted in Multi-Core Colors |  | Processor designers have agreed upon the fact that multi-core processors will dominate the market in the upcoming years, but failed in achieving consensus on how to implement them. The discussions took place at yesterday's International Solid State Circuits Conference, with participation from senior chip designers from Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel, Renesas, Sun Microsystems and startup Tilera.
According to Chuck Mo ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 04:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Extends its Business In India, Opens Two New Development Centers |  | IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge.
The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new global delivery center in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Moreover, the "Big Blue" also plans to open another facil ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 12:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Plans Mammoth 67 Million-Core Computer |  | It seems like thinking big is pretty outdated these days and if you want to keep up with the trend you must go giant: Intel's two billion transistors on a single processor or Sun's 16-core chip are the supportive evidence. However, nothing compares to IBM's initiative, that is neither big, nor huge – it's merely insane.
IBM has been reported to work on a megascale computing system that will be able to host ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google’s Postini Offers Protection for Microsoft |  | The title might seem a bit of a shocker, especially with all that’s been going on as of late with Yahoo and Microsoft’s bid, but in all respects, it is only a viable marketing idea that the Mountain View-based company has decided to monetize in order to expand its customer base. As easy as that, it attended to three of its competitors’ email services.
There are three bundles of Postini security assets and today is the first day [ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 14:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Honda to Create a 3D Processor Prototype |  | Three-dimensional computer chips are industry's new black, and promise unmatched speeds, lower power consumption and smaller chips. No wonder that every company that can afford a research and development facility is tackling the problem their own way. Honda and IBM joined their swords in the quest of the first 3D processor, and it seems they have finally found it.
Honda Research managed to achieve this chipset configurat ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel, Sun, IBM to Show New Prototypes at the ISSCC |  | The upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco has rushed the major CPU manufacturers into detailing upon their new technologies that are being cooked as we speak. The ISSCC is one of the largest events in the chip design industry and the showcased products become reality within a few months. This year, it's Intel, IBM and Sun to be in the spotlight.
Intel will introduce the extremes: the worl ... [read more >>] | | 29 January 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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