All Posts Tagged With: "IBM"
IBM Walks Away From Talks Over Potential Sun Acquisition
IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems today (Sunday), reports the NY Times, who confirmed the collapse of the talks based on a statement from an unnamed source while several other media, including the Wall Street Journal and ZDNet, were still speculating.
6Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedSun Microsystems Reportedly A $7 Billion Acquisition Target For IBM
It’s all over Techmeme: the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times report that IBM is in talks with Sun Microsystems to acquire the fledgling technology giant. Larry Dignan over at ZDnet says it makes sense, Dana Garder over at … also ZDnet calls it a red herring. Om Malik says it would make more sense for Cisco Systems to buy Sun, CNET’s Matt Asay says a deal would be good for open source. Meanwhile, Sun’s stock soars.
18Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedCisco Plans Bold Move Into Server Business, Enters Arena With HP And IBM
According to the NY Times, Cisco Systems is planning a big push into the server market, essentially entering into competition with its historical partners HP and IBM (who declined to comment on the story).
20Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedIBM Releases Virtual Desktop To Rival VMware View
IBM is working with Virtual Bridges and its VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) product to ship a virtual Canonical Ubuntu Linux desktop, with Lotus email, word processing, spreadsheets, unified communication, and social networking software included, to a variety of end-point devices. Virtual printing is also included.
4Dec2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Launches “Resilient Cloud Validation” Program
IBM today said it would introduce a program to validate the resiliency of any company delivering applications or services to clients in the cloud environment. As a result, customers can quickly and easily identify trustworthy providers that have passed a rigorous evaluation, enabling them to more quickly and confidently reap the business benefits of cloud services.
24Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM To Snap Up Cross-Platform Virtualization Specialist Transitive
IBM today announced it plans to acquire Transitive Corporation, a privately held technology company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, with a research and development team in Manchester, United Kingdom. Financial terms were not disclosed.
19Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Adds VMware Technology To Lotus Foundations
Looking to steal the limelight from this week’s official launch of Microsoft Essential Business Server, IBM Monday said it is adding VMware’s virtualization technology to its IBM Lotus Foundations hardware/software appliances, allowing customers to run Windows on the Linux-based appliances.
10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedSun Microsystems Updates Solaris, ZFS
Sun Microsystems has introduced a new version of its Solaris operating system offering enhancements to virtualization support and the company’s ZFS file system. The open source version of the platform has also been demonstrated on IBM mainframes for the first time.
4Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedDatatrend Technologies Debuts “Virtualization-In-A-Box”
Datatrend Technologies introduced a new virtualization appliance that helps clients build an affordable computing infrastructure using the IBM BladeCenter server.
27Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Expands Storage Virtualization for SMBs
IBM today announced its storage virtualization software will be packaged for small and medium sized (SMB) businesses, one of the faster growing parts of the storage marketplace.
15Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM Adds More Virtualization Capabilities to Power Systems, Eyeing Sun and HP
IBM, which combined its System i and System p server product lines earlier this year, is revamping its Power Systems to offer more systems for enterprise and midmarket customers.
8Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedvMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0
In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.
16Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | Continued
