Back Rub, Anyone? Big Blue Loosens Up
News But the Geek Spa party, which is slated to cap IBM's relaunch of its WebSphere commerce development platform, is definitely a Big Blue event. So, next week during PC Expo in New York, Big Blue will roll out the red carpet, geek style.
[June 27, 2000, 7:04]
Big Blue Delivers On Strong Sales Growth
News Big Blue also restructured its storage business and implemented an accounting change to shorten the depreciable lives of personal computers used within the company to three years from five years. IBM didn't wow Wall Street like it did in the first...
[July 20, 1999, 9:42]
LinuxWorld: Big Blue Evangelises Linux
News Solazzo acknowledges that Big Blue has a selfish interest in promoting the operating system it has adopted so enthusiastically. Solazzo said Big Blue sold hundreds of millions of dollars of Linux-ready products during the year both in its xSeries...
[January 31, 2002, 16:58]
Big Blue Leaves Modem Software Off Linux Laptop
News Big Blue released the 600 with one small problem: no Linux software drivers for the internal modem. A company spokesman assures us that Big Blue is working on the problem and denied any suggestions the company was embarrassed by the reports.
[September 15, 1999, 13:22]
TDWI Podcast: Big Blue Touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing
White Papers Talk to Big Blue, and they'll tell you the Balanced Warehouse is the hub of their dynamic warehousing strategy. Tune into this TDWI Radio News interview, with Eric Kavanagh, to hear Karen Parrish, vice president of business intelligence solutions...
[July 13, 2008, 15:15]
Big Blue Finishes Power5 Line
News Big Blue will debut its eServer i5 550, an iSeries machine it created to serve mid-sized businesses and to bridge the gap between its Power5 eServer i5 520, which has two processors, and its i5 570 model, which offers 16 processors.
[August 17, 2004, 9:15]
Big Blue To Let Squadron Fly At Sun And HP
News HP in the Unix server market, but the new Power5 systems are a key part of Big Blue's Unix ambitions. In addition, IBM will announce a third system, the i5-595, which uses the same hardware as the p5-595 but runs Big Blue's i5/OS operating system...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
Big Blue Breaks 36 Teraflop Barrier To Take Supercomputing Speed Lead
News But a new Silicon Graphics machine has a chance at giving Big Blue a run for the title. IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L, which beat a Japanese machine from NEC.
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Big Blue Ploughs Pastures New
News IBM will begin to sell the Green Pasture software products immediately as part of Big Blue's DB2 Enterprise Content Manager product line, according to IBM. IBM beefed up its back-end software for managing corporate documents with the purchase on...
[December 17, 2003, 13:55]
Big Blue Seeks Partners To Widen Battle With Redmond
News On Tuesday, Big Blue detailed a program designed to simplify the process of becoming an "advanced partner" of IBM. Big Blue's strategy is to seek out thousands of application providers tied to IBM's hardware and software and to sell to customers...
[October 12, 2004, 17:00]
Big Blue Touts New Napster-proof Music Locks
News Big Blue is one of the oldest players in the so-called digital rights management business, in which companies create software to block or deter would-be pirates from downloading music online without permission.
[January 22, 2001, 10:05]
Big Blue's Storage Tag Team
News On the hardware side, Hillsberg directs storage-software strategy and technology in Big Blue's systems group. Q: You have not made a big deal out of information lifecycle management. It's not the usual procedure at IBM, but when it comes to data...
[February 19, 2004, 14:09]
Big Blue Founds RFID Lab In Japan
News The facility, which will be Big Blue's second globally, is targeted at manufacturers and retailers keen to harness RFID technology for product tracking and inventory control. Vendors in Asia are avidly drumming up support for radio frequency...
[May 25, 2004, 14:10]
Big Blue Goes Down-market
News Big Blue might also become known as "medium blue" as IBM mounts a renewed effort to court mid-sized companies. Under a new marketing framework it calls Express, Big Blue will deliver a suite of applications, services and hardware designed, priced...
[June 25, 2003, 15:25]
Big Blue Flexes Supercomputing Muscle
News But to date, no company has plans to build a computer that would eclipse ASCI White, with its 8,192 processors and its huge physical size and weight--it's as big as two basketball courts and weighs in at 106 tons.
[August 15, 2001, 9:21]
Palmisano: Big Blue Means Business
News A day later, Palmisano talked with writer Joe Wilcox about the company's long-anticipated Freeway mainframe, the Shark storage system, and Big Blue's Linux initiative. We had to get past these little production tests in the field at these big banks...
[December 18, 2000, 9:02]
Big Blue BlackBerry Pie
Blog With globalisation on the up, 24x7 communications an absolute reality and me trying to cut down on my intake of Miller Genuine Draft - maybe it's time to bake up some Big Blue BlackBerry pie after all?
[April 23, 2008, 9:48]
Big Blue Remains Top Of The Server Heap
News Big Blue's server revenue increased 9.3 percent to $16.1bn from 2003 to 2004, according to figures released Wednesday by research firm Gartner. Big Blue is now targeting Dell with higher-end x86 servers and HP's Itanium-based products with its...
[February 24, 2005, 8:20]
Big Blue Acquires SRD
News SRD is the 20th software company Big Blue has bought since 2001. IBM is continuing to beef up its data-management software line, now with the acquisition of SRD Software, which builds tools to create a profile of a person from multiple data sources.
[January 10, 2005, 9:05]
Big Blue Appoints New Patent Supremo
News At the same time that Big Blue earns substantial revenue each year from licensing its patents, it also has made decisions such as a pledge not to sue if it finds patent infringement in the Linux kernel.
[October 14, 2004, 9:30]

