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IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  Green 500 List Puts IBM Supercomputers at the Top

  Posted: July 24th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  When it comes to supercomputing energy efficiency, IBM (NYSE: IBM) cannot be beaten -- that's according to the findings of the latest Supercomputing 'Green 500 List' announced by The Green500.org. http://www.green500.org/lists/2008/06/green500.php

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  First-of-a-Kind Technology to Help Doctors Care for Premature Babies

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) announced today a first-of-a-kind research project to help doctors detect subtle changes in the condition of critically ill premature babies.

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  IBM Provides Romero Group With Infrastructure Outsourcing Services

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Romero Group, Peru's largest private business group, today announced they have signed a five-year IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement.

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  Transforming the data center from hell

  Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 8:00am CST

  Some CIOs and data center managers have found themselves having to wring performance out of monstrously deficient facilities. Ultimately, these three wrestled with their infrastructures, made major changes and won the day.

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  IBM Global Financing to Fund En Pointe Solutions for IBM's Services Business

  Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the largest IT financier in the world today, announced that it will provide inventory financing for Los Angeles-based technology reseller En Pointe Technologies(R) (NASDAQ: ENPT), a provider of solutions for IBM's Global Technology Services business. This move increases IBM's capacity to respond to clients' needs quickly and with greater flexibility now that the balance sheet of one of its suppliers is made stronger by faster payment turnaround.

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  IBM Opens Service Management Center of Excellence in India

  Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of the IBM Service Management Center of Excellence in India which will act as the regional hub for IBM Tivoli service management software and strategy. The Center has been designed to develop specialized focus and skills in high value areas such as telecom, security, automation and asset management. This first of its kind Center has been established in Pune.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU

  Posted: July 21st, 2008, 8:32pm CST

  Madness or genius?

  UK hosting company Bytemark has seen the future of servers and it's... er... a processor designed for tiny laptops and desktops.…

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  IBM, Oracle and SAP sued over server software patents

  Posted: July 21st, 2008, 8:19pm CST

  Implicit Networks demands royalties

  Seattle firm Implicit Networks is suing Adobe, IBM, Oracle and SAP for patent infringements.…

Network World on Servers

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  How Green Is Your UPS?

  Posted: July 21st, 2008, 8:00am CST

  Servers, switches and routers certainly suck up a lot of electricity. But according to power engineers at Cleveland-based Eaton Corp., all that hardware actually accounts for less than a third of your data center's electricity demand. Your HVAC and power management systems gobble up the rest.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  AMD thanks Ruiz for courageous ability to lose money

  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 6:38am CST

  Heck of a job, Hector. We'll keep it up!

  Comment Normally, a succession plan is a good thing. You want the new CEO to slide into the old CEO's chair with an ease that says, "Our asses were molded by the same country club rib eyes and crème brûlées. Everything is under control."…

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  Power6 meets Tukwila meets Rock meets SPARC64 in chip death match

  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:17am CST

  China's Godson-3 whimpers in too

  Hot Chips The grandest chip unveiling in many, many years will take place this August on the campus of Stanford University.…

  

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  IBM Recognized for its Green Recycling Practices by IT Analyst Firm IDC

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM Global Asset Recovery Services, the IT equipment renewal and recycling arm of IBM, was recognized by leading IT analyst firm IDC as one of the first recipients of its Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise (G.R.A.D.E.) certification.

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  IBM Partnering With ABM Industries on Integration of Acquired Company

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that it would continue assisting ABM Industries Incorporated, one of the largest facility services contractors listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with technology integration services for finance and human capital management as well as business process standardization.

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  Report: IBM Extends Overall Lead in IT Operations Management Software Revenue

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM led all vendors worldwide in IT operations management software revenue in 2007, according to a new report from analyst firm Gartner, Inc.

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  IBM and BES Sign New Outsourcing Contract

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Banco Espírito Santo (BES), one of the major multi-specialist financial groups in Portugal and IBM, today announced a seven-year outsourcing services agreement for IBM to manage the bank's information technology (IT) infrastructure.

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  Major League Baseball Hits Home Run With All Star Line-Up of Web 2.0 Technology From IBM

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  As one era closed with the final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium this week, Major League Baseball (MLB) enters a new one, employing software technologies from IBM to improve the way baseball is officiated.

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Network World on Servers

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  Sun Microsystems to focus on Africa

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  Sun Microsystems will focus special attention on Africa under a new emerging markets sales geography, which the company expects to drive accelerated expansion and sales coverage across growing markets.

  

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Samsung and Sun make 'ultra-endurance' flash chips

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 5:20am CST

  Beget Methuselah SSDs

  Samsung and Sun Microsystems say they've found a veritable fountain of youth for data center solid-state drives.…

HP Server News & Podcasts

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  HP Server Technology Update Volume 7, Number 5

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 1:14am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  This podcast includes the following articles. When to use Brocade SAN switches or Virtual Connect-Fibre Channel modules, Delivering energy-efficient solutions for the IT power and cooling chain, Meet the Expert -- Michael Chan, Deploying HPSUM firmware and software updates and Implementing a scalable, highly available Oracle® Database for SMBs.
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  HP Server Technology Update Volume 7, Number 4

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 1:12am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  This podcast includes the following articles. Quad-Core upgradeability of HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem c-Class 10 GbE products support Next Generation Data Centers...now!, ProLiant management tip of the month, and Meet the Expert...Alan Green.
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  Logical Servers

  Posted: July 18th, 2008, 1:10am CST

  Enclosure: [download]

  Podcast on Logical Server technology

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Reports 2008 Second-Quarter Results

  Posted: July 17th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced second-quarter 2008 diluted earnings of $1.98 per share from continuing operations, an increase of 28 percent as reported, compared with diluted earnings of $1.55 per share, including a 5 cents per share gain from the sale of the Printing Systems Division (PSD), in the second quarter of 2007. Excluding the gain in the prior-year period, diluted earnings for the second-quarter 2008 increased 32 percent year over year.

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  Cisco to develop new generation of data centers

  Posted: July 17th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  Africa is set to benefit from Cisco Systems' new unified data technology that delivers multiple applications over a network using minimal bandwidth.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Fastscale sends Windows Server to Weight Watchers

  Posted: July 17th, 2008, 4:53am CST

  De-bloating Bill's code

  Fastscale is bringing its unique brand of software shrinking to Windows Server.…

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  HP's white trash data center is up for anything

  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 8:04pm CST

  Your POD or mine?

  Hewlett-Packard has finally found its way into the data center trailer park.…

Network World on Servers

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  HP to offer data center-in-a-box

  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 8:00am CST by James Niccolai

  Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out.
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  APC to offer data center cooling products in Africa

  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  APC by Schneider Electric, a major supplier of data center cooling and UPS equipment aimed at improving efficiency, is lowering costs and developing integrated tools to address power fluctuations in Africa.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Citrix's 'Kensho' tools shed earthly hypervisor restraints

  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 7:49am CST

  Seeks application workload Nirvana

  Citrix Systems is developing a set of Open Virtual Machine (OVM) format tools that will let virtualized applications jump across different hypervisors.…

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  Sun calms investors with early Q4 dish

  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 4:38am CST

  Not as bad as you might have thought

  Sun Microsystems has issued an early take on its fourth quarter financial results, showing sales figures that have declined from the same period last year.…

  

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Introduces the Industry's Fastest One Terabyte Storage Tape Drive

  Posted: July 15th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today introduced the industry’s fastest one terabyte (TB) storage tape drive, which will enable clients to protect and archive more information with less cost and less energy usage - the highest capacity and performance of any tape drive in the market.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun's flagship Unix servers

  Posted: July 15th, 2008, 7:37am CST

  Sun rises on Dell in SaaS future

  Exclusive Salesforce.com is chucking out the last of it Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire servers this week, ending one of Sun's most bragged about relationships.…

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  Putting a mule on a cloud: one man's battle with Amazon S3

  Posted: July 15th, 2008, 3:00am CST

  Are we there yet?

  The phrase “cloud computing” has been subjected to unnatural forms of marketing abuse. The buzzword pros have taken two nouns that we all recognize, combined them and formed a nebulous, hideous beast that means many things to many people.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  IBM Secures Services Agreement With Australian Government

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced that IBM Australia Limited has been selected by the Australian Government to support its Standard Business Reporting (SBR) initiative, which aims to reduce the reporting burden for business. As part of the initial design phase, IBM will provide architectural and design services under a contract valued at approximately AU$10 million.

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  Cincinnati Bell and IBM Sign Consulting Services Agreement

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM today announced a services agreement to provide Cincinnati Bell with strategy consulting services.

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The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  Sun and Fujitsu ride Unix boxes to four-core country

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 1:45pm CST

  SPARC64 VII plugs in

  Now is about the time Sun Microsystems was meant to start telling the world of the wonders inherent in the Rock processor. No such luck. Instead, Sun and Fujitsu are celebrating the arrival of Version VII of the SPARC64 processor.…

Network World on Servers

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  Sun and Fujitsu give Sparc servers a speed bump

  Posted: July 14th, 2008, 8:00am CST by James Niccolai

  Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Computer Systems have updated their jointly developed family of Sparc Enterprise Servers with a new quad-core processor.
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  Tennessee's sinking data center gets help

  Posted: July 13th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  A data center in Tennessee that may be located in the worse spot in America for a data center -- on an unstable landfill, next to a railroad and a river and downstream from a large dam that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says has a risk of failing -- is getting relocated, at least partially.

  

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  IBM's eight-core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz

  Posted: July 12th, 2008, 7:45am CST

  Will fuel 300,000-core, 10 petaflop giant

  Exclusive IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  Thanachart and IBM Sign Two Billion Baht IT Outsourcing Agreement to Enhance IT Capacity and Facilitate Progressive Growth

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM and Thanachart Bank Public Company Limited (TBANK) today announced they have signed a two billion baht (approximately US$60 million) agreement for a seven-year information technology (IT) Outsourcing Services contract to enhance the bank's IT capacity, increase client satisfaction and address progressive growth with world class standards.

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  HP's big splash on EDS all about shrinkage

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 8:36am CST

  Hurd 'The Butcher' gets out his knife

  Comment I love this Mark Hurd guy. He's turning cost-cutting into an art form.…

  
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  Levi's suffers profit meltdown in midst of SAP embrace

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 6:07am CST

  Pants ERP system leaves it without pants

  Exclusive Problems with a massive global enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout have helped send Levi Strauss' second-quarter results through the floor.…

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  US DoD arms cloud for military duty

  Posted: July 11th, 2008, 3:52am CST

  Full metal server

  The US Department of Defense is sounding a strategic retreat from its current hardware and software licenses and ducking into the cloud for cover.…

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  Shrinking Sun under the gun

  Posted: July 10th, 2008, 11:29pm CST

  Could Fujitsu unite?

  Comment Here, with the stock market melting, we find Sun Microsystems in most uncomfortable territory. It's got a stock market value of $7.7bn, which means that the one-time lord of the servers is a mid-cap company.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  STMicroelectronics et IBM s'allient dans la recherche sur les puces

  Posted: July 10th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  STMicroelectronics and IBM to Collaborate on Chip Technology

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  U.S. Department of Defense Selects IBM Supercomputer to Help Prevent Disasters at Sea

  Posted: July 10th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) will house a powerful new IBM (NYSE: IBM) supercomputer that will be used principally to support the oceanographic modeling and analysis needs of researchers at the Department of Defense.

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  Monitor your data center with a coffee mug-sized server

  Posted: July 10th, 2008, 2:17am CST

  The cup that phones home

  Plat'Home is a curious Japanese company that seems intent on cracking the US market with its weird brand of tiny Linux servers. This week, it has offered the land of the free and the home of the brave the KANSHI Blocks Pro 6.0.1 device, which is a coffee mug-sized monitoring server.…

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  Microsoft prepares to sell SQL Server 2008

  Posted: July 10th, 2008, 1:23am CST

  An August release?

  Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 appears ready to go after months of delay, as the company is taking steps to begin selling the database.…

  

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  Juniper Networks Selects IBM for Data Center Hosting Agreement

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM and Juniper Networks, Inc. today announced they have signed a five-year, data center hosting agreement with IBM to support Juniper's global operations.

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  IBM and Matiq to Develop First of a Kind Tracking Solution for the Norwegian Food Industry

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM has signed an agreement with Matiq, the information technology subsidiary of Nortura, Norway's largest food supplier, to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track and trace poultry and meat products from the farm, through the supply chain, to supermarket shelves. IBM and Matiq are developing the first food tracking solution of its kind in the Nordics, which will help ensure that meat and poultry products are kept in optimal condition throughout the supply chain.

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  Sun expands storage lineup

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 8:00am CST by Stephen Lawson

  With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage platform.
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  Good incentives boost data-center energy efficiency

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 8:00am CST

  A Microsoft executive shared techniques the company has used, including new kinds of employee incentive programs and internally created automation tools, to reduce the energy consumption of its growing data centers.

The Register - Hardware: Servers

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  DreamWorks switches to Intel for stereoscopic 3-D high

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 3:49am CST

  Studio to AMD: Drop dead

  For computer animation studios, upgrading long-in-the-tooth server farms is a part of a natural cycle to keep things looking sharp. But they're a bit like butterflies flitting amongst hardware specs when it comes down to finding what they want to power "the next big thing."…

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  EMC CEO's ego has cost investors billions

  Posted: July 9th, 2008, 1:39am CST

  Whacks Greene when VMware needed her most

  Comment By firing VMware chief Diane Greene, EMC's top dog Joe Tucci has sent a message to investors that his personal likes and dislikes come before their broader interests. That's not exactly what you want to see from an executive who has already done so very little for investors over the past five years.…

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  Greene washed out of VMWare as revs undershoot

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 10:36pm CST

  MS veteran replaces co-founder

  VMWare co-founder Diane Greene left the company today as it announced it would undershoot its full year revenue targets.…

IBM Press Releases - All Topics - United States

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  State of Connecticut Prepares Next Generation for High Growth Occupations in the Financial Services and Insurance Industries

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Connecticut is the first U.S. state to use data analytics software jointly developed by IBM, Pace University of New York, and the Connecticut-based labor research firm SkillPROOF, Inc., to identify and train students for lucrative job opportunities with the state's biggest insurance and financial services employers.

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  IBM Signs Strategic Outsourcing Services Agreements in South America

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed two strategic outsourcing contracts in emerging markets of South America.

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  Linden Lab and IBM Achieve Major Virtual World Interoperability Milestone

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, and IBM (NYSE:IBM) have successfully demonstrated virtual world interoperability by teleporting avatars between the Second Life Preview Grid and an OpenSim virtual world server. The joint development project represents an industry first of a quantifiable milestone for virtual world interconnectivity.

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  Made in IBM Labs: New Technology Paves Way for Visually Impaired Internet Users to Improve Website Accessibility

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today previewed a unique Social Accessibility collaboration software, developed by IBM Research, which allows Internet users to improve Web accessibility, particularly for those who are visually impaired. View video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRB72rXXyXo

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  Panasas teams with Penguin on clustergasm

  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 8:43am CST

  Mad Scyldz

  Clustered storage system vendor, Panasas, is teaming up the Linux cluster house, Penguin Computing, to — well, obviously combine some of the former's goodies with the latter's.…

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  EU still greasing IBM antitrust probe despite PSI withdrawal

  Posted: July 4th, 2008, 3:44am CST

  'Your complaint stands'

  IBM may have corked the wails of antitrust outrage coming from the diminutive mainframe vendor Platform Solutions (PSI) by purchasing the upstart, but the European regulator genie has already slipped out the bottle.…

  

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  Made in IBM Labs: IBM Technology to Protect Customer Data in the Call Center Industry

  Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Researchers at IBM's India Research Laboratory have developed advanced data masking technology that helps call centers protect critical data without disrupting customer service or business operations. As IBM (NYSE: IBM) continuously seeks new methods to ensure privacy and security, the company intends to utilize this capability in its own call center operations to further protect information for its services clients around the world.

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  Virgin Mobile USA and IBM Sign IT Services Agreement

  Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (NYSE: VM), a leading national provider of prepaid and hybrid wireless plans, today signed a services agreement for Information Technology (IT) operations and new applications development with IBM (NYSE: IBM). The agreement will allow Virgin Mobile USA to enhance its technology capabilities and improve its product portfolio for new and existing customers by affording the Company access to IBM's significant telecommunications industry experience and state-of-the-art IT resources.

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  IBM Podcast Explores the Future of Movies

  Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 8:00pm CST

  As the summer blockbuster movie season enters full swing, IBM (NYSE: IBM) explores the Future of Movies, a podcast with Yair Landau, former President of Sony Pictures Digital and Saul Berman, Global Strategy Leader for IBM's Media & Entertainment Practice, hosted by Tim Washer. With technology enabling consumer demand for more customization on how they enjoy entertainment, the movie studios must adapt and content providers must adjust to new web-based distribution channels such as YouTube.