IBM reversed course on networking in 2010 when it acquired Blade Network Technologies, one of its key network suppliers. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix and Managing Editor Jim Duffy recently caught up with Vikram Mehta, founder of BNT and now vice president of IBM System Networking, for an update on IBM's network visions going forward.
Experts from IBM, Seagate Inc. and storage interface card vendor LSI Corp. Tuesday said solid state disk (SSD) drive technology will replace high-end Fibre Channel and serial SCSI disk drives for several I/O-intensive applications in the enterprise. However, the industry still needs standards to measure SSD performance and unit price will continue to limit adoption.
IBM today issued its seventh annual look at what Big Blue researchers think will be the five biggest technologies for the next five years. In past prediction packages known as "IBM 5 in 5" the company has had some success in predicting the future of password protection, telemedicine and nanotechnology.
The severance package IBM is expected to give employees selected for a layoff includes a lump-sum severance payment, as well as counseling and financial planning services.
Amid reports that it is moving thousands of jobs from the U.S. to India, IBM said Thursday it is notifying employees that some jobs are being eliminated.
Michael Dell sees a potential acquisition of Sun Microsystems by IBM as an opportunity for his company to secure more customers and a greater share of the enterprise computing market, he said Tuesday.
IBM's research division in Switzerland is working on a device that IBM scientists call "security on a stick" - a small USB device that plugs into any computer to establish a secure channel to a bank's online transaction server.
While a majority of carriers plan on rolling out next-generation network architecture in the next five years, less than half of them say they have strategies in place to protect their NGNs, according to a new IBM survey.
BMC's part in Cisco's Unified Computing System launch points to a potential acquisition, according to industry watchers, who say embedded management software will help Cisco compete with HP and IBM in the data center.
Earnings season got under way with a vengeance this week, as bellwether companies such as Google, IBM, Intel, Nokia, Advanced Micro Devices, and eBay issued quarterly reports that, while mixed, offered some good news to IT investors trying to keep afloat in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the stock market crash of 1929.
A study by IBM and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania found globalization is bringing new risks to the enterprise, but preparation is lacking.
The SCO Group, the Unix vendor that gained notoriety for claiming IBM illegally incorporated its proprietary Unix code into Linux, is hanging by a thread and financial bankruptcy is “inevitable,” according to court documents filed by Novell in U.S. District court in Utah this week.
Siemens last week announced that it has integrated its OpenScape platform with IBM Lotus Sametime. Openscape is Siemens’ unified communications application suite and it includes features like click-to-contact and click-to-conference. The integration brings together collaboration and unified communications products, showing the two companies’ continuing support for a service-oriented architecture.
IBM has issued a warning to customers that security fixes should be installed for two vulnerabilities in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup software client. The security holes could allow a buffer overrun attack or enable unauthorized access to stored data, IBM said.