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IBM says the release of the spec has two purposes. On the peripherals front, it's intended to encourage third-parties to develop networking switches and adapter cards that fit into BladeCenter systems ...

System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. And thus, we can expect a certain amount of healthy and excited frustration ...

IBM announced the industry's first high-performance Express UNIX servers and a new security solution for mid-sized business clients. These Express servers, based on the IBM POWER5 microprocessor, ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

Open Service Oriented Architecture, or OSOA, comprises experts from rivals BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, SAP and others. Initially formed in November, the group aims to develop a common programming model ...

Royalty-free access to IBM's BladeCenter for any adopter of the SSI spec is aimed at spurring its adoption for low-cost blade servers Intel and IBM have agreed to open up IBM’s BladeCenter switch ...

IBM, Microsoft, BEA Systems and Tibco on Thursday released a pair of Web services specifications designed to answer questions about reliability that have been dogging the emerging technology. IBM, ...