Articles tagged with: ibm

Anatomy of the Linux kernel
Posted in articles on 30 July 2008

While Linux is arguably the most popular open source operating system, its history is actually quite short considering the timeline of operating systems. In the early days of computing, programmers developed on the bare hardware in the [...]

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New IBM Software Simplifies Application Security for Service Oriented Architectures
Posted in It news on 21 May 2008

Software Brings User-centric Identity and Security to SOA Environments, Improves Interoperability and Eases Business Partner Collaboration
ARMONK, NY - 20 May 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced details of new application security software designed to help clients securely manage [...]

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ERP Remote Support: Microsoft Great Plains Analysis - Pluses & Minuses
Posted in articles on 13 April 2008

Former Great Plains Software Dynamics/eEnterprise and currently Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains serves midsize and corporate clients as ERP system in the following countries and regions: USA, Canada, Mexico and Latin America, Brazil (where MBS actually promotes Navision and has GP for multinational corporations), Saudi Arabia, OAE, Egypt and the rest of Middle East, South [...]

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The Progress of Thin Clients
Posted in articles on 13 April 2008

When thin clients first appeared on the market over 10 years ago, IBM was a great proponent of this technology even though the first units had slow CPUs, limited memory, and Linux-based operating systems. In the early days of thin clients, networks were still employing hubs instead of switches. Hubs share all network traffic with [...]

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IBM Ships Fastest Chip In Existence
Posted in Uncategorized on 11 April 2008

IBM Corp. began shipping high-end computers Tuesday built around the fastest chip on Earth, a microprocessor that can carry out up to 5 billion instructions per second, surpassing the speediest competing processors built by rivals like Intel or Sun Microsystems.
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April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 April 2008

1964:IBM unveils the System/360 line of mainframe computers.In what some consider the biggest business gamble of all time, the International Business Machines Corp. invested $5 billion ($34 billion in today’s dollars) in a family of six mutually compatible computers and 40 peripherals that could work together and be expanded in multiple combination
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New Intel Server Processors: Fewer Watts, High Performance
Posted in It news on 26 March 2008

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 25, 2008 – Intel Corporation has further increased its energy-efficient performance lead today with the introduction of two low-voltage 45 nanometer (nm) processors for servers and workstations that run at 50 watts, or just 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50 GigaHertz (GHz). The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor [...]

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Avaya Unveils Breakthrough Intelligent Presence Technology For Real-time Business
Posted in It news on 18 March 2008

VoiceCon Booth 801 – Orlando, Fla. - Avaya Inc, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, today introduced Intelligent Presence, breakthrough software that drives greater precision, speed and collaboration using presence-based, real-time communications. Avaya Intelligent Presence collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker’s [...]

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Florida Hospital Enhances IT Performance and Patient Care with Red Hat Solutions
Posted in It news on 12 March 2008

Hospital utilizes Red Hat and JBoss technology to maintain disaster-recovery systems
Raleigh NC – March 10, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Florida Hospital, the largest hospital in the state of Florida, providing care to over one million patients per year, relies on Red Hat [...]

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IBM launches New “System z10” Mainframe
Posted in It news on 27 February 2008

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the System z10 mainframe to help clients create a new enterprise data center. The system z10 is designed from the ground up to help dramatically increase data center efficiency by significantly improving performance and reducing power, cooling costs, and floor space requirements. It offers unmatched levels of security and [...]

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