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Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500
The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...
Article | 15/11/2012 IBM offering $US4 billion in credit through partners
IBM is offering US$4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get ...
Article | 14/11/2012 SC2012: Top500 expects exascale computing by 2020
If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, estimated the maintainers of t...
Article | 14/11/2012 IBM kills Lotus brand, readies beta of Notes/Domino Social Edition
IBM is planning to release on Dec. 14 a public beta of Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will no longer use the Lotus brand.
Article | 12/11/2012 Cray bumps IBM from Top500 supercomputer top spot
The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest super...
Article | 9/11/2012 Manufacturer sues IBM over SAP project 'disaster'
IBM has been slapped with a multimillion dollar lawsuit by chemical products manufacturer, Avantor Performance Materials, which alleges that IBM lied ...
Article | 8/11/2012 Oracle buys Instantis for project portfolio management software
Oracle on Thursday said it has agreed to acquire PPM (project portfolio management) software vendor Instantis, in a move that will build upon its past...
Article | 8/11/2012 Chinese ex-hacker says working for the government would be too boring
Tao Wan now works at IBM, but said he was once an angry young man, a veteran of the hacking scene that burgeoned in China in the late 1990s.
Article | 6/11/2012 IBM adds entry-level Storwize V3700 array
IBM on Tuesday announced the Storwize V3700 storage array, which starts at US$11,000 and is one of the lowest-priced storage products the company offe...
Article | 30/10/2012 IBM, Epicor could be among potential JDA acquirers
IBM, Epicor and other vendors could be eyeing a purchase of supply-chain software vendor JDA, analysts said Tuesday following a published report that ...
Article | 29/10/2012 IBM moving to replace silicon with carbon nanotubes in computer chips
IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips.
Article | 22/10/2012 IBM refreshes analysis offerings
At IBM's Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and serv...
Article | 19/10/2012 Wall Street Beat: Earnings point to tough quarter for tech
Some of the biggest names in tech reported quarterly earnings this week, and the resulting picture is not pretty. The main culprit for the weak earnin...
Article | 17/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism
Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the ...
Article | 16/12/2011 IBM buys Emptoris for contract managment, supply software
IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out its growing catalog of business-to-bus...