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IBM's new blades remain on the cutting edge
News Big Blue leads competitors including Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems in the market for blade servers. In cooperation with Intel, Big Blue is trying to establish its blades as a de facto standard, though so far it has yet to convince Sun...
[October 8, 2004, 9:05]
IBM settles copyright suit for $400m
News Back in 2002, Compuware filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging Big Blue infringed on its copyrighted code in IBM File Manager and Fault Analyzer products. Compuware and IBM announced a $400m (£211m) settlement on Tuesday in their long-running...
[March 22, 2005, 16:30]
IBM slips blades into all servers
News But Big Blue is aiming its blade servers at a much larger base of buyers, planning models for IBM's mainframe and Unix server customers. IBM is expected to announce next week that it has adapted its blade server for telecommunications customers, a...
[March 9, 2004, 7:30]
IBM enlarges T-Rex
News IBM will announce two new higher-end models of its z990 mainframe on Tuesday along with a promotion to coax customers to try blade servers and other Big Blue products. When IBM released the first z990, code-named T-Rex, in May, there were two...
[October 7, 2003, 12:30]
IBM 3Q earnings: Good, but not that good
News Most analysts had predicted Big Blue would record sales of between $21bn to $23bn in the quarter. IBM met the Street estimate in its third quarter Tuesday, earning $2bn, or $1.08 a share. However, the $21.8bn in sales came in at the low end of most...
[October 18, 2000, 11:21]
IBM helps computers that help themselves
News The company on Monday announced it has established a new Autonomic Computing group, which will act as Big Blue's hub for research and product development in autonomic computing. In all, Big Blue will be "turning up the heat and taking a much more...
[October 21, 2002, 8:07]
IBM puts Power in new blade server
News IBM unveiled a new blade server prototype on Tuesday that uses its Power processor, putting Big Blue a step ahead in the race to squeeze high-end chips into compact servers. Some of the world's largest server companies -- IBM, Sun Microsystems...
[October 24, 2002, 9:13]
IBM revives Butterfly concept
News Big Blue originally introduced the Butterfly on the ThinkPad 701C in March 1995. One big incentive for converging desktop and notebook designs is the increasing popularity of the latter. IBM is experimenting anew with portable notebook designs that...
[October 29, 2003, 8:20]
IBM touts second Itanium
News However, the company's schedule for that system slipped: Big Blue initially said the machines would ship this year but now says they're due in the first quarter of 2004. All the big (server) vendors are finally acknowledging the trend of the decade...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
IBM's next push: The network chip
News Of course, it's not like Big Blue is the only company to figure this out. IBM says tomorrow's smart computer networks begin with today's chips. The network processor, an increasingly popular class of chips, is charged with helping to identify and...
[February 2, 2001, 8:32]
IBM's mainframe makeover
News The processors in today's mainframe are a "pretty old design", Krewell said, and changing to Power chips would allow Big Blue to take advantage of more modern features such as "superscalar" processing, the ability to carry out several operations...
[May 22, 2002, 9:38]
IBM bags billion pound utility deal
News While giant IT outsourcing deals often carry significant costs for IBM, in terms of capital expenses and personnel additions, Lindqvist said there would be no immediate investment on Big Blue's part to launch the Nordea joint venture.
[October 2, 2003, 9:15]
IBM expands pay-as-you go programmes
News Although IBM and others have been offering monthly payment plans for PCs for some time, Big Blue says the new plan offers more flexibility. In addition, Big Blue will provide a PC help desk service, along with asset reporting and PC disposal.
[February 23, 2005, 8:45]
IBM hits mark in gloomy week for techs
News An earlier reorganisation hurt Big Blue's PC business, which posted a $58m loss for the quarter. IBM on Wednesday gave Wall Street some desperately needed good news, meeting first-quarter expectations.
[April 19, 2001, 11:35]
IBM prepares for another Linux invasion
News Full-fledged 64-bit versions of Linux will arrive for IBM servers that previously had to make do with lesser software, Big Blue is expected to announce in the next month. The 64-bit versions will run on IBM's zSeries mainframes, Big Blue's most...
[February 24, 2002, 6:31]
IBM servers to run Linux and Windows
News The deal fits into two Big Blue efforts: the X architecture initiative to offer more sophisticated Intel-based servers and an overall emphasis on the open-source Linux software. The new x360 server was designed to bring features from IBM's "big...
[February 19, 2002, 15:56]
IBM expands self-healing server plan
News Sun Microsystems, one of IBM's chief rivals, argues that IBM's overall approach is flawed for customers while acknowledging it's profitable for Big Blue. IBM has accelerated its effort to make money out of its "eLiza" plan to let servers manage...
[October 31, 2001, 10:41]
IBM snags £1.6bn IT services deal
News The German bank and Big Blue on Wednesday said they signed a 10-year contract worth $2.5bn (about £1.6bn) to have the computing giant run the bank's data centres in continental Europe. Deutsche Bank is betting that IBM can save it a billion bucks...
[December 19, 2002, 8:31]
IBM promises not to attack Linux
News And it's shown a willingness to use that arsenal: when the SCO Group sued IBM, alleging Big Blue broke its Unix contract by moving proprietary Unix technology to open-source Linux, IBM countersued with three patent infringement claims.
[August 5, 2004, 9:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To IBM Hursley, Big Blue's very big house in the country near Winchester, where once the wartime production of Spitfires was co-ordinated but now Java, Websphere and transaction processing are the order of the day.
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
