Jaguar beats Roadrunner to top list of fastest supercomputers Nov 17, 2009
The IBM computer is owned by the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and was the first machine to push through the petaflop barrier ... The IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) in Germany is the fastest machine outside the US and is able to run at more than 800 teraflops. (BBC News -- Americas)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 17, 2009
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
IBM Debuts Virtual Server Security App Nov 17, 2009
IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers ... IBM officials said Virtual Server Security helps address these new concerns by providing protection for every layer of an enterprise's virtual infrastructure including the hypervisor, operating system, network, applications, server-based virtual desktops, virtual machine and traffic between virtual... (SmallBusinessComputing)
Recession intensifies Gen X discontent Nov 17, 2009
But then we saw that start to crumble for our folks, she says, recalling friends whose fathers and mothers got laid off from companies like IBM or had to relocate. Now worried about their own foreclosures, debt and unemployment, her generation is left to do the soul-searching their parents did. (Courier-Journal -- Business)
CardioComm Solutions, Inc. Signs Software Development Agreement and Adds New Director Nov 17, 2009
Mr. Smith began his career as a systems engineer at IBM Canada and recently completed three years with Microsoft in Europe where he was first responsible for the KPMG partnership and was finally Finance Industry Marketing Manager for Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He left Microsoft in May 2001 to take the position of COO with ICT, a start-up company dealing in banking opportunities in financial services. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Building Lotus Support in Your Company Nov 17, 2009
This series of articles on intranet solutions with IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and its companion products is intended to help readers understand the fundamental methodology and capabilities of the product and how to utilize it to deliver a feature-rich, secure, and functional corporate intranet solution. It will include implementation strategies, case studies, industry-tested tips and tricks, and, with your input, true value to the administrator or developer who wants to utilize IBM Lotus... (IntranetJournal)
Recession Intensifies GenX Discontent At Work Nov 16, 2009
"Many of my friends had hoped to have jobs like their parents -- places they would stay forever that would take care of them like they did their parents. But then we saw that start to crumble for our folks," she says, recalling friends whose fathers and mothers got laid off from companies such as IBM or had to relocate. Now worried about their own foreclosures, debt and unemployment, her generation is left to do the soul-searching their parents did. (Click2Houston, TX)
Apache Tomcat Server vs. Oracle Web... Nov 16, 2009
The only major alternative in the J2EE application server market is IBM Websphere. Future Without J2EE Applications. (Suite101.com)
Stocks Dismiss Deficit, Sentiment Data Nov 15, 2009
Gains in IBM (IBM), 3M (MMM) and Chevron (CVX) bolstered the blue-chip index. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq and NYSE composite slipped 0. (Investors Business Daily)
How a search-engine startup became a global powerhouse Nov 15, 2009
For instance, the revered former head of IBM, Lou Gerstner, once froze out Fortune magazine for far longer than a mere two months over an article he disliked, a story Auletta must know. For all its pluses, Googled does not always read crisply. (Boston Globe)
HP to acquire 3Com in $2.7 billion deal Nov 14, 2009
HP's recent acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp. took aim at IBM in the service business space. Cisco's recently announced partnership with storage equipment and software company EMC was a push against HP, IBM and Dell in the computer server business. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
H-P to Buy 3Com for $2.7 Billion; Sees Rosy Q4 Nov 13, 2009
Giants such as H-P, Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) and Dell Inc. (DELL) and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have steadily encroached into each other's core businesses, prompting more deals ... Giants such as H-P, Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Dell Inc. (DELL) and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have steadily encroached into each other's core businesses, prompting more deals. (SmartMoney)
IBM, Microsoft among NCTA 21 winners Nov 13, 2009
IBM, Microsoft, EMC, Red Hat among NCTA 21 winners - Triangle Business Journal ... IBM, Microsoft, EMC, Red Hat among NCTA 21 winners ... Big names such as (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), EMC (NYSE: EMC) and Raleigh-based (NYSE: RHT) are among the winners of the 2009 NCTA 21 Awards, the announced Friday morning. (Triangle Business Journal)
Is Salesforce.com an Acquisition Target? Nov 13, 2009
While he declined to name names, Fauscette said that in the tech world there are three distinct castes: the top-tier companies who do the buying (Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco and the like); the attractive targets, such as Salesforce. com; and everyone else (those without the deep pockets to buy the missing pieces they need to be successful, and also lacking enough IP to be worth acquiring, except after a bankruptcy proceeding). (Datamation)
Hewlett-Packard buys 3Com for $US2.7b; ups guidance Nov 13, 2009
96 billion) acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc, the world's No 4 server maker behind IBM Corp, HP and Dell Inc. That deal has been approved in the US but is being held up over antitrust concerns in Europe ... Companies especially want a piece of technology services, a market where IBM is strong. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Company puts good ideas to work by keeping them in context Nov 12, 2009
The touch screen systems IBM supplied to the Atlanta Olympics were so non-user-friendly, they garnered their share of bad coverage, she said. In 1999, when the Internet was really taking off, she went to and was one of the founding members of the users experience group, which conducted research on Yahoo s front page, mobile and personalization programs. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
China's Ctrip Exceeds Views As Profit Soars Nov 12, 2009
Gains in IBM (IBM), 3M (MMM) and Chevron (CVX) bolstered the blue-chip index ... Running data centers for other companies isn't glamorous, but the business has attracted the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. (Investors Business Daily)
Hewlett-Packard buys 3Com for $2.7bil Nov 12, 2009
4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., the world's No. 4 server maker behind IBM Corp., HP and Dell Inc. That deal has been approved in the U.S. but is being held up over antitrust concerns in Europe ... Companies especially want a piece of technology services, a market where IBM is strong. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Private Share Market May Supplant IPOs Nov 11, 2009
Running data centers for other companies isn't glamorous, but the business has attracted the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. com. (Investors Business Daily)
TECHNOLOGY: Siegel & Associates selected as Smart Cube reseller Nov 11, 2009
Siegel & Associates, LLC has been selected by Intuit as a reseller for Smart Cube, an automated appliance that combines IBM s Smart Business solution including hardware, software, and technical support with Intuit s QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions financial management software ... Siegel & Associates, certified Intuit Solution providers and QuickBooks advisors who offer custom setup, training, and support as well as long-term bookkeeping and accounting services, is currently the only Intuit... (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
HP, IBM and 3PAR Unveil New Data Storage Wares Nov 11, 2009
HP (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and 3PAR (NYSE: PAR) all have new data storage offerings this week, and a common thread among the three is their readiness for server virtualization environments ... IBM announced new mirroring and space reclamation features for its XIV storage systems, and 3PAR added new provisioning features to its InServ Storage Servers ... IBM XIV Mirrors, Optimizes and Recovers. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
VMware's View 4 Delivers PC-Over-IP Nov 11, 2009
VMware on Monday served up View 4, a desktop virtualization suite that runs on its vSphere platform and includes a new PC-over-IP protocol that's supported by a wide range of key vendors including Cisco, Dell, HP and IBM.. VMware officials said the new offering will go a long way toward assuaging a lot of IT administrators' concerns about virtualized desktop environments most notably support and integration with key PC and networking vendors and reduce the complexity and costs associated with... (SmallBusinessComputing)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 11, 2009
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
* Oracle to oppose EC objection to acquisition of Sun Nov 11, 2009
The database market is intensely competitive with at least eight strong players, including IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and three distinct open source vendors, Oracle said. Oracle and MySQL are very different database products. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
IBM opens D.C. analytics center, adds 100 jobs Nov 11, 2009
More than 400 IBM employees will contribute to work being done at the D.C. center, and up to 100 additional employees could be hired as demand requires, according to the company ... Just as analytics is being widely adopted in corporate America to help companies achieve their business goals, there are almost limitless opportunities for the public sector to improve efficiency, effectiveness and overall performance through analytics, said Anne Altman, IBM s general manager for its global public... (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Too close to Sun Nov 11, 2009
As long as Sun remains in limbo, it is losing business to rivals such as Dell, HP and IBM. Last week Sun reported that revenues in the quarter ending in September fell by 25. And if the case drags on for too long, Sun may sink behind the horizon for good. (The Economist)
Rackspace Sits Pretty In Unglamorous Web Hosting Field Nov 11, 2009
Running data centers for other companies isn't glamorous, but the business has attracted the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Google and Amazon ... The all-stock deal, valued at $750 million, marks Google's (GOOG) first acquisition since Oct. 15 when CEO Eric Schmidt said the firm was "open for ... 11/09/2009 07:05 PM ET With the market back in a confirmed uptrend, one stock in today's IBD Big Cap 20 bears a heavy border around its chart. Apple (AAPL) has found support at its 10-week... (Investors Business Daily)
EU objects to Oracle bid for Sun Nov 10, 2009
It is looking to strengthen its position against IBM, which abandoned its own attempts to buy Sun earlier this year. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Americas)
EU issues formal Oracle-Sun objections Nov 10, 2009
Redwood City-based Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) pointed to the U.S. Department of Justice s approval of the proposed deal in August and said there are eight strong players in the database market, including (NYSE: IBM), (NASDAQ: MSFT) and (NYSE: SY). "There is no basis in European law for objecting to a merger of two among eight firms selling differentiated products," Oracle said. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Ruling throws wrench into Oracle-Sun deal Nov 10, 2009
Rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. are taking advantage of the uncertainty by luring Sun's customers with steep discounts. Copyright 2009 Reuters. (MSNBC -- Business)
Q3 losses double at Evergreen Energy Nov 10, 2009
"We are gaining traction with GreenCert, which is now our primary initiative. As we announced last week, our highly-integrated partnerships with IBM and Black & Veatch are strengthening as we move closer to licensing GreenCert through our industry-leading partners distribution channels.". Evergreen formed C-Lock Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary, in 2007 after it purchased a license to use the GreenCert counting system for carbon-dioxide emissions. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 10, 2009
And yet cybercrime is now considered a greater worry than physical crime among US businesses, according to a new IBM survey. Nearly 9 out of 10 companies experienced a computer security incident in 2005, the FBI has found, with viruses, computer theft, and other such crimes costing US firms more than $67 billion a year. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Oracle vows fight as EC objects to acquisition of Sun Nov 10, 2009
"The database market is intensely competitive with at least eight strong players, including IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and three distinct open source vendors," Oracle said ... Sun is also the fourth-largest maker of computer servers but has been steadily losing market share to IBM as well as Hewlett-Packard and Dell ... IBM also made a bid to acquire Sun but was edged out by Oracle. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Droid First Step in iPhone Fade Away? Nov 10, 2009
"History shows that unlike Apple, PCs gathered the ecosystem of profitable companies, such as Dell and IBM, thanks to its open technology. Apple, however, only develops systems that benefit itself.". McLaughlin sees the iPhone eventually becoming a commodity that could struggle to compete with the Droid devices on price. (SmallBusinessComputing)
EU objects to Oracle's US$7.4bil takeover of Sun Microsystems Nov 10, 2009
Uncertainty about the deal, which both companies had hoped would close this summer, has wounded Sun, which is losing market share in computer servers to rivals like IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.. Last week Sun revealed that it lost $120 million in the quarter ended Sept. 27. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Liao: A Fresh Eye To Speed Innovation Nov 9, 2009
1 billion on research and development in 2008, while IBM laid out $6. 3 billion and Intel spent $5. (Multichannel News)
India's IT cos join profit play Nov 9, 2009
While the market was dominated by the likes of IBM, TCS, Wipro, Hewlett-Packard and HCL Infosystems, it is now seeing aggressive pitches by Infosys Technologies and Accenture ... A classic example of this is the Bharti-IBM IT outsourcing deal, which set a benchmark for the global telecom industry. (India Times)
Sun Micro Sales Fall, Oracle Deal Delay Stings Nov 7, 2009
Rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co , in the meantime, are taking advantage of the uncertainty by luring Sun's customers with steep discounts. 1. (ABC News -- Wire)
Sugar firm to shut pension scheme Nov 7, 2009
Other employers pursuing the same policy this past year have been Pirelli, Dairy Crest, Costain, Morrisons, Barclays, Fujitsu, the Financial Services Authority and IBM.. Enough. (BBC News -- Business)
MIND Reviews: Brainy Gifts Nov 7, 2009
When IBM computer Deep Blue defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was by evaluating an immense number of moves in a very short time a feat of brute-force calculation that hardly qualifies as intelligence. That mixed victory for the artificial-intelligence (AI) community got computer scientist Omar Syed of 4You Net Services thinking. (Scientific American)
Sun Micro sales fall Nov 7, 2009
Rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co, in the meantime, are taking advantage of the uncertainty by luring Sun's customers with steep discounts. Sun Microsystems has said recently it is cutting 3,000, or around 10 per cent, of its jobs worldwide. (India Times)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 7, 2009
The other founder Tom Patterson worked for IBM and others on search and storage technologies. By declaring its aim of taking on Google, Cuil joins a long list of others that have tried and largely failed to dent the search giant's market share. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence Nov 7, 2009
The National Security Agency, which was founded in the early 1950s to monitor foreign communications and telephone calls, hired IBM, Cray and other companies to make the supercomputers that helped the agency break encryption codes and transform millions of bits of data into meaningful intelligence. By the 1990s, however, commercial developments in encryption, information technology, imagery and satellites had outpaced the government's ability to keep up, and intelligence agencies began to turn... (Salon)
New IBM Consulting Unit Geared To Analytics Field Nov 7, 2009
IBM is betting big on analytics, and Fred Balboni is leading the charge ... A veteran of IBM's (NYSE: - ) retail consulting practice, Balboni heads a new global team of 4,000 IBM consultants charged with helping clients improve how they manage and use data ... IBM expects global sales of analytics and optimization to rise 8% a year from an estimated $105 billion this year. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
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New IBM Consulting Unit Geared To Analytics Field - Yahoo ... New IBM Consulting Unit Geared To Analytics Field ... IBM is betting big on analytics, and Fred Balboni is leading the charge. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Just Reverting To Norm After Anomaly Of '08 Nov 7, 2009
IBM is betting big on analytics, and Fred Balboni is leading the charge. Big Blue has just launched a consulting practice in conjunction with its business analytics and optimization products. (Investors Business Daily)
US state cuts IBM contract Nov 6, 2009
NEW DELHI: The US state of Texas has reportedly pulled its voter registration system out of an ongoing $863 million data center consolidation project being handled by IBM. ... According to the news report in ComputerWorld, the decision was prompted by an incident in August when a server being managed by IBM crashed resulting in a 13-day outage of the office's business records filing system ... The news article quotes a spokesman from the Secretary of State's office saying that the incident... (India Times, India)
Capgemini plans acquisitions in US Nov 6, 2009
Capgemini is the largest European IT services company by sales, but would like to join the top five US technology services providers, alongside Accenture and IBM. ... Capgemini would like to join the top five US technology services providers, alongside Accenture and IBM.. (India Times)
Apache Celebrates Ten Years: Meritocracy Rules Nov 6, 2009
Cooper's sentiment was echoed by ASF member Ted Leung, who commented that after having been employed by IBM working on an XML project, he quit after the code was donated to the ASF. Leung said that even though he was no longer working for IBM, he was still able to work on the code, and work as a go-between for IBM and Sun, the two big corporations involved in the Apache XML effort ... "For the most part, people believe it's a neutral playing field, though every year there is a different company... (Datamation)
Sybase set to ride mainland 3G wave Nov 6, 2009
But Oracle still takes up most of China's database market share, followed by IBM and Microsoft. (Source: China Daily). (Xinhuanet, China)
Cisco/EMC cloud packages proprietary, but may not cause lock-in Nov 5, 2009
"You can't take an HP blade server and slide it into an IBM BladeCenter rack, for example.". Using Vblock within an existing private cloud network should be possible, although "it would probably take some additional integration," King says. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Oracle Outlines Sun Software Plans Nov 5, 2009
Meanwhile, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has been merciless in trying to steal customers away from Sun. RELATED ARTICLES. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Cisco, EMC: Cloud Partners? Nov 5, 2009
The line of products, dubbed vBlock, position the two companies to better compete against IBM (IBM.N) and Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N), which sell a broader array of data center equipment than either Cisco or EMC offer on their own. Cloud-computing refers to hosted computing services that customers access over the Internet. (Datamation)
Letter to The President: # 4 Nov 5, 2009
Still on the topic of free software, a major event announcement was made involving global IT giant IBM, Canonical, the company behind the most popular and fastest growing distribution (Ubuntu) of the Linux operating system and other partners ... Described as a flexible personal computing software package for netbooks and other thin client devices to help businesses in Africa bridge the digital divide by leapfrogging traditional PCs and proprietary software, the bundle is the first cloud-... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Second Life creates virtual world for businesses Nov 5, 2009
Companies dabbling with Second Life Enterprise behind the safety of their computer fire walls include IBM, Northrop Grumman and the US Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), according to Linden. "Second Life Enterprise version offers a great combination of collaboration, content creation and communications tools and resources," said IBM vice president of innovation initiatives Francoise Legoues ... IBM estimated it saved more than 320,000 dollars by holding a recent conference in Second Life... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
EMC, Cisco alliance takes on computing giants IBM, HP Nov 4, 2009
IBM and HP are the industry leaders when it comes to selling computer servers to businesses ... This put Cisco in competition against industry titans IBM and HP, which sell integrated computers and storage products ... EMC and VMware are dominant players in storage and server virtualization, technology that allows many computers to run together as efficiently as one machine, but can t match IBM and HP in servers or Cisco in networking. (Boston Globe)
Microsoft lowers the price of its corporate email service Nov 4, 2009
This is the software giant's latest counter moves against IBM and Google in the battle over corporations and small businesses to business applications delivered over the Internet ... IBM has stepped up marketing of its Lotus Symphony , and has even the glowing metrics it has been using to tout its new online offerings. (USA Today -- Tech)
Global 'caring' portal to launch Nov 4, 2009
Companies such as Microsoft, Monster, Cisco and IBM and participating in creating the site. It will be user-generated, in terms of content and how it develops. (BBC News -- Technology)
RFD-TV: How an Ex-Farmer Built a $25 Million Media Empire for Rural America Nov 4, 2009
Using a mobile device. Go to for our mobile version. (FastCompany)
Cisco's EMC Venture: Better Than a Buyout? Nov 4, 2009
Through the joint venture and new products, Cisco, the No. 1 vendor of networking gear, is making another incursion into the market for computer systems sold by IBM (), Hewlett-Packard (), and Dell (). Striking an alliance with EMC and VMware could help Cisco, one of techdom's most acquisitive companies, grab a larger share of customers' computing budgets without the cost and scrutiny of buying VMware outright. (BusinessWeek)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 3, 2009
Current offerings from companies like Microsoft and IBM give both businesses are certainly more feature-packed than Google Apps. The key, says Burton, will be for businesses to view both options as supplementary to each other. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
Tech Giants Move Toward Social Networks Nov 3, 2009
(L to R) Didier Moretti, vice president of business incubation in Cisco's Emerging Technologies group and Roosevelt Bynum, manager for IBM developerWorks Web applications Photo: David Needle ... IBM (NYSE: IBM) is another company very much on the social network bandwagon. (Datamation)
Local CIOs top peers in innovation Nov 3, 2009
BANGALORE, MUMBAI: INDIAS top enterprises, set to spend over $10 billion on technology services th 00004000 is year, are better than global peers when it comes to using technology to drive innovation and launch disruptive business models, according to an IBM study of over 2,500 companies across the globe ... Indian CIOs appear to be more visionary when compared with their global counterparts, according to our study, Shanker Annaswamy, managing director of IBM India said ... One of the... (India Times)
•Letter: State should rethink property tax caps Nov 2, 2009
Canceling the IBM contract with FSSA is the latest example of this. He demonstrated similar flexibility when he decided not to pursue the so-called central Indiana "commerce connector" highway when the public failed to embrace his vision of a 21st century transportation network. (The Daily Journal)
Cisco, EMC cooperate on cloud computing Nov 2, 2009
The line of products named vBlock will help the two companies to better compete against International Business Machines Corp (IBM) and Hewlett-Packard Co (HP), which sell a broader array of data center equipment than either Cisco or EMC offer on their own. Cisco will provide the networking gear and server computers to the vBlock line, while EMC contributes storage equipment and virtualization technology from its VMware Inc software subsidiary, according to the reports. (Xinhuanet, China)
