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IBM Friday moved to pick up its largest software acquisition since it nabbed Lotus in 1995 when it agreed to buy Cupertino, Calif.’s Rational Software for $2.1 billion in cash.Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM believes Rational, which offers software, practices and services for developing business applications and building software products and systems, will further enable it to […]

HP Monday introduced the ProLiant DL320 and DL360 servers designed specifically for data centers. To power these dense environments, the firm included what it calls “lights-out” technology in its overarching Adaptive Infrastructure initiative to help customers grasp greater control of the operations of their machines. The new servers provide reduced reactive support time, fault resilient […]

As previously announced, IBM took its much ballyhooed new application server live Monday, packed with a number of advancements that are geared to appeal to IT workers seeking advanced Web services features.As with its DB2 v8.1 package, launchedlast week, Big Blue’s WebSphere Application Server Version 5 features some souped up Web service capabilities, as well […]

Continuing its forward progress of building ultra-powerful machines for scientific organizations, IBM Corp. picked up a $290 million contract to build two supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that sport a combined peak speed of 460 trillion floating operations per second, or teraflops.The deal, announced at the Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore Tuesday, […]

Looking to extend its supercomputing tendrils to better serve education, research and government facilities, Sun Microsystems Monday unveiled a new clustering technology aimed at ramping up data center operations.The Sun Fire Link interconnect, code-named Wildcat, supports throughput of 4.8 gigabytes per second and maxes out at more than a teraflop, or one trillion floating operations […]

During a time when managing disparate storage systems is key for luring customers, Dell Monday debuted three new storage systems geared for small- and medium-sized businesses and corporate workgroups. In the interest of supporting heterogeneous environments, Dell’s PowerVault 775N, 770N and 725N network-attached storage (NAS) systems enable the management of data between applications running Microsoft […]

Angling for more placement on the coveted Top 500 list, IBMand other vendors are busy preparing for battle with new supercomputers. Armonk, N.Y.’s IBM kicked off the festivities Friday with the latest iteration of its Deep Blue supercomputer (yes, very same that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov), the Unix-based eServer p655, which it claimed is […]

Developing tools for the Java language is no piece of cake, as developers and third-parties are required to write separate add-ins for their tools to work with each Java tool vendors’ Integrated Development Environment. The presence of so many players writing programs using their own products doesn’t make this task any easier and it gets […]

IBM is gearing up to take WebSphere V5 live, as the company offered a sneak peek this week of some of the upgrades over previous versions. Chief among these, according to IBM Director of Marketing for WebSphere Scott Hebner, is the addition of an integrated workflow engine geared to tie Web services together. The Armonk, […]

Buckling under the weak spending economy, Lucent Technologies Friday said it would lay off 10,000 staffers and take its quarterly earnings-per-share (EPS) breakeven revenue level to $2.5 billion. The telecommunications equipment maker had previously set a target range of $2.5 to $3 billion. The Murray Hill, N.J. company, which will see its staff paired from […]