Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
IBM Purchases Vallent Corporation
IBM has continued fleshing out Tivoli with its fat wallet, purchasing Vallent Corporation, a privately held company that makes software allowing Cell Phone providers to granularly monitor its network quality for a purported $200 million. Consolidation has been happening fast in the OSS space and it looks like convergence is playing out such […]
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
IBM is Tops in Unix Server Sales Volume
IBM announced share of worldwide server revenue this quarter was 33.7% over all, with:
IBM led in blade server revenue share for the tenth consecutive quarter with 43.9 percent of the revenue and 38.0 percent of volume. During the quarter, IBM widened its leadership position over its nearest competitor, believed to be fueled by IBM’s introduction […]
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
IBM Smart Surveillance Gets Spotted by Border Patrol
I’m just a little late for the ’06 political season, but IBM seems to is getting into the surveillance game with this release”. I love seeing weird new areas that IBM research is getting into. The full article is here.
The Smart Surveillance System (S3), available in conjunction with IBM’s digital video surveillance services, […]
No Comments » - Posted in General, News, Products by Greg
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Microsoft to Bring Next Generation Xbox Chip In-House
The NY Times reported that Microsoft plans to design their own chips from here on out. I’m not sure that that’s entirely true from how the article reads (though that’s how tech blogs such as engadget and techwack have taken it). Designing and even improving on an existing chip takes so much experise […]