Amdahl Sees End-to-end Computing As Key Need
News Amdahl said that yesterday's deal with Microsoft to work on host integration of NT Server with host mainframe systems was evidence of increased consolidation in the industry. Microsoft said yesterday it will make a financial contribution to Amdahl...
[February 3, 1998, 12:06]
IBM Says Amdahl Migration Plan Is Old Hat
News Sun Microsystems and Amdahl IT Services have launched a bid to entice users of IBM-compatible mainframes to move to Sun's Starcat Solaris boxes, but IBM has dismissed the scheme as out of step with the reality of the mainframe market.
[November 21, 2001, 9:37]
MS, Amdahl To Bind NT Server, Mainframe Know-how
News Also involved will be the DMR Consulting Group, Amdahl's professional services company. Japanese giant Fujitsu acquired Amdahl last year. Customers are demanding a solution to the complex issue of integrating Windows NT with their mainframe data...
[February 2, 1998, 15:20]
Fujitsu Buys Up Amdahl
News Fujitsu, which owns 42 per cent of Amdahl, will offer $12 per share for the remaining 58 per cent of the Sunnyvale, Calif.company, beginning August 5. Amdahl will retain its name and its management team, and will operate as a wholly owned...
[July 31, 1997, 9:52]
IBM Sues Mainframe Cloner Over Patent
News In the mainframe's heyday, Amdahl, eventually acquired by Fujitsu, made "plug-compatible" systems that could run mainframe software. Amdahl and Hitachi, however, left the mainframe market in early 2000.
[December 7, 2006, 10:35]
Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessors
White Papers Heterogeneous (or asymmetric) chip multiprocessors present unique opportunities for improving system throughput, reducing processor power, and mitigating Amdahl's law. On-chip heterogeneity allows the processor to better match execution resources...
[January 6, 2007, 23:00]
Was FUD The Aim Of Oracle's PeopleSoft Takeover Talk?
News According to The Jargon File, an online dictionary of hacker slang, Gene Amdahl used the term as an attack on IBM after he left in the early '70s to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty and doubt that IBM salespeople instil in the...
[October 7, 2004, 8:50]
Tech Firms Named In Apartheid Lawsuit
News Fujitsu is facing the lawsuit because of alleged actions by two of its subsidiaries: the Amdahl mainframe business and the Fujitsu Services business, previously better known as ICL. Fujitsu and Unisys are expected to be named this week in a lawsuit...
[August 19, 2002, 12:33]
Unisys To Expand Mainframe Line
News Fujitsu subsidiary Amdahl has decided to phase out its mainframes, for example, but IBM and Unisys mainframes continue to defy competitors' proclamations of extinction. Unisys, one of the few companies that continues to sell mainframe computers in...
[April 22, 2002, 10:53]
Fujitsu Adds Montecito To Its Itanium Line
News Fujitsu has years of experience designing powerful, reliable servers through its Amdahl mainframe line. Fujitsu is revamping its server line with Intel's dual-core "Montecito" version of the Itanium 2 processor, upgrading two high-end models and...
[July 18, 2006, 16:20]
Veitch Speaks: Return Of The Dinosaurs
News Tying up with Amdahl on enterprise-class reliability, ICL on government and retail, Unisys in financial houses - a clear and direct statement of intent on where it wants to take NT. Don't expect Raquel Welch in a skimpy fur bikini, but it's...
[October 17, 1998, 12:19]
IBM's T-Rex Mainframe Set To Roar
News IBM dominates the market for mainframes, and many would-be competitors such as Amdahl and Hitachi have left the market to Big Blue. IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe on Tuesday, sources said.
[May 12, 2003, 9:36]
Fujitsu Storage Brand Confuses Strategy
News Some observers worry that European users might feel that Eternus does little to unify the diverse brands within Fujitsu: Eternus will be sold in Europe by Amdahl IT Services (AITS), and in the US by Fujitsu Technology Solutions, which last month...
[May 22, 2002, 11:21]
IBM Builds On-demand Power Into New Hardware
News IBM dominates the market for mainframes, and many would-be competitors such as Amdahl and Hitachi have left the market to Big Blue. IBM said on Thursday it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system...
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
Intel: Multicore Chips Outstripping Software
News Desktop applications can learn from the way supercomputers and servers have handled things, but another principle, Amdahl's Law, holds that there is only so much parallelism that programs can incorporate before they hit some inherently serial task.
[May 29, 2007, 13:05]
IBM To Upgrade Mainframe Features
News Mainframes once were sold by many companies, including Hitachi Data Systems, Amdahl and Unisys, but IBM is for the most part the last company to pursue the strategy. IBM will announce upgrades to its mainframe computer on Friday, refreshing a high...
[October 19, 2001, 10:02]
Veitch Speaks: Intel Doesn't Own The World
News The same applies to the recent mainframes from Unisys, Fujitsu, ICL, Amdahl and the rest that make Intel chips the pulse of machines that run a variety of operating systems. It is true that Intel architecture is a huge force in enterprise computing...
[January 16, 1999, 6:09]
