Mainframe Computer
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Intel to roll out new Itanium chips
News The company winds down its Madison-family on the way to the dual-core "Montecito."
Tags: Multiprocessor servers
IBM Japan makes bold US$82m call
News IBM Japan plans to invest 10 billion yen (US$82 million) in an Internet data center in Tokyo, a bold move in an uncertain business climate.
IBM bucks trend, meets estimates
News Although the rest of the IT world keeps finding new ways to disappoint Wall Street, old, reliable IBM meets analysts' profit estimates, earning US$2 billion on sales of US$21.6 billion.
Wozniak joins SSD start-up
News Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will join solid-state drive firm Fusion-io as chief scientist and technical adviser, after having served on the company's advisory board.
Tags: Storage, Leadership, Solid State Disk, Steve Wozniak, Chief Scientist, Storage, mainframe computer, Computer, Fusion-io, advisory board
IBM's mainframe momentum continues
News Big Blue's "dinosaur" mainframe business gets a boost with a European customer consolidating SAP applications using Linux.
Tags: Servers
DOJ claims Compuware merger anticompetitive
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CA reorganization may be on tap, analysts say
News Computer Associates International, the No. 4 U.S. software maker, said it will make a "significant" announcement today. Company executives declined to elaborate.
Tech giants court mainframe customers
News HP unveils a service that helps customers break away from mainframes, while IBM hopes they stay--and both programs are backed by Oracle.
Tags: Mainframes, Business applications
Upscale Windows 2000 heads to testers
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Last week in Intel
News European regulators raid the company's office, while Intel is expected to unveil what may be the last batch of single-core Itaniums.
Tags: Processors, Antitrust, Government
Danish government agency opts for open source
News The country's Ministry of Finance chooses JBoss on Linux over Microsoft's BizTalk to run a key system.
Tags: Linux, Open source
EMC boosts high-end storage system
News New system will store a petabyte of data--enough space for 250 million digital songs, company says.
Tags: Storage
IBM meets expectations but warns of slowdown
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IBM to upgrade mainframe features
News Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct.
Unisys draws up a new server plan
News Unisys overhauled its highest-end servers, hoping to rejuvenate flagging sales of its traditional mainframe computer line with new designs based on its high-end Intel servers.
