Stories about: Big Blue

Supercomputers from IBM are more energy efficient than supercomputing iron from rival vendors, according to latest research from The Green500.org.

While Microsoft chases Yahoo, Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO and chairman is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something in which Big Blue's chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, appears very interested.

IBM on Wednesday launched a collaborative research initiative with two US universities Big Blue says could ultimately deliver software applications that enable self-managing virtual data centers and automation in cloud computing environments.

It's no surprise IBM goes to great lengths to lure Unix customers away from HP. But IBM is pretty innovative when it comes to making money at HP's expense, even long after customers have switched to Big Blue.

IBM's next-generation mainframe unveiled Tuesday is 50% faster than its predecessor and can double performance for CPU-intensive jobs, while offering dramatic improvements in energy efficiency, according to Big Blue.

IBM is giving new meaning to the phrase "virtual data center." And it looks a lot more like Second Life than VMware.

The private equity firm that has offered to pump up to US$100 million into SCO thinks court rulings against the vendor in its highly publicized Unix copyright lawsuits "don't make any sense" and it believes those rulings can be reversed on appeal to a higher court.

Novell hopes the cost benefits associated with its newly announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Starter System for IBM System z will help prove to IT managers that the mainframe is not yet a footnote in the history books.

Novell will head to court this April to find out what it is owed, if anything, by SCO, which had been trying to earn royalties from Unix code it did not own.

IBM has launched a program that it claimed allows mainframe users to monitor their systems' energy consumption in real-time.

Open-source database provider MySQL on Wednesday said it is injecting features into its paid subscription support service, which is aimed at simplifying management for large companies with tens or hundreds of servers running the database.