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IBM Labs’ top-five research projects, 02/05/07
IBM opened the doors to its R&D lab in Silicon Valley last week to show off some of the research that is happening around its research facilities in the United States. These include ‘IBM’s Next Five in Five,’ a list of innovations that Big Blue believes could affect the way people work, live and play over the next five years.
IBM pumps up Linux virtual machines on mainframe, 02/06/07
Organizations running Linux in virtual machines on the mainframe will soon be able to throw more workloads onto the system thanks to an update to the z/VM operating system that now scales across 32 processor units, compared to the previous version that scaled to 24.
Lenovo signs end-user services deal with IBM, 02/06/07
Lenovo Group has signed a five-year deal with IBM to provide services and support to its customers. The deal, outlined in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange Tuesday, could be worth up to $245 million for IBM over the term of the contract.
IBM adds incentives to boost partners’ open source use, 02/07/07
IBM wants to encourage more of its business partners to use its open source, low-end application server and free entry-level database by giving those companies access to IBM sales, marketing and technical expertise at no charge.
IBM sells part of its stake in Lenovo, 02/06/07
IBM sold off a chunk of its stake in Lenovo Group, leading the world’s third-largest PC vendor to temporarily suspend trading of its shares in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
IBM eyes expanded water cooling for data centers, 02/05/07
IBM Corp. researchers are counting on a 40 year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art data centers running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume.
