Latest IBM news.
IBM debuts encrypted tape drive, 09/18/06
IBM today debuted a new tape drive that encrypts data in the drive itself. It’s designed for markets that are increasingly regulated and concerned with data loss.
IBM puts its first Cell computer on sale, 09/13/06
IBM has started selling the first computer based on its multicore Cell processor, targeting organizations that run compute-intensive tasks such as medical imaging or oil exploration.
GridWorld: Panelists weigh grid’s promise, obstacles, 09/13/06
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Grid technology once reserved for high-end research centers is making its way into more enterprises, though plenty of obstacles to wider adoption remain.
IBM unveils location-based business finder technology, 09/12/06
IBM’s India Research Lab has developed a location-based service for mobile phone users that helps mobile users to connect with both fixed and mobile businesses in their vicinity.
IBM, HP boost client-management wares, 09/11/06
IBM and HP last week separately announced updated systems-management software designed to make it easier for customers to deploy programs to client machines and to cut the cost and manual effort needed to maintain desktops.
Storage software market grows without EMC, says IDC, 09/11/06
EMC and Symantec missed out on a boom in storage software sales in the second quarter, according to research by IDC.
GRIDWORLD – Open Grid Forum unveils its new mission, board, 09/11/06
The Open Grid Forum standards body officially has opened for business, delivering on its commitment made last June to detail its aims and organizational setup coinciding with the start of the GridWorld conference taking place this week in …
Cisco, IBM are winners in giant Silicon Valley Wi-Fi mesh, 09/11/06
Cisco, IBM and two partners have been awarded the contract to build a public 802.11-based wireless mesh that is intended to blanket most of the Silicon Valley peninsula of California, some 1,500 square miles.
Security in Practice Newsletter: IBM legitimizes managed security, 09/11/06
$1.3 billion is a lot of money. If traveling is your thing, you could buy 38 Gulfstream V jets to fly in style and even have a little left over for gas money, or 7,900 Bentley Continental GTs to make sure you (and all your friends) are comfortable at …
WirelessCast podcast: Cisco, IBM win Silicon Valley Wi-Fi job, 09/11/06
Cisco, IBM and two partners have been awarded a contract to roll out a Wi-Fi mesh network to the 42 communities
IBM prepares open source systems management initiative, 09/08/06
IBM and other parties are set to propose an open source systems management initiative for consideration by the Eclipse Foundation, with managing SOA a goal of the plan, an IBM official said at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference on Friday.
