IBM acquires Watchfire; Latest storage sales numbers show HP-IBM tie

Opinion
Jun 7, 20071 min

Latest IBM news.

IBM acquires Watchfire, 06/06/07:  IBM Wednesday announced its intent to acquire vulnerability-assessment security firm Watchfire for an undisclosed price.

Latest storage sales numbers show HP-IBM tie, 06/07/07:  If the competition between IBM and HP in the computer storage business were a horse race, you’d need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon.

IBM borrows Power6 design for telephony chips, 06/05/07:  IBM is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors.