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  2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

  While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.

  By Lucas Mearian | 31 January, 2012 06:58

  Tags: IBM, storage

• Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes

  IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it.

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 August, 2010 10:41

  Tags: AFCOM, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, IBM, znextgen

• A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

  Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to his office to take part of a "take your daughter to work day." Tom Harper said his daughter was less than enthusiastic about his profession that day.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 05 August, 2010 05:59

  Tags: careers, hardware, hardware systems, IBM, it management, Mainframes and Supercomputers

• Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan

  It was 2006, and Tom Noonan had it all. Internet Security Systems (ISS), the company he co-founded and led as CEO, was pulling in $US400 million in annual revenue and on the verge of being acquired by IBM for a whopping $US1.3 billion.

  By Jon Brodkin | 29 April, 2010 00:49

  Tags: energy efficiency, IBM, Internet Security Systems (ISS), JouleX, Tom Noonan

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Tags: accenture, datacentre, dell, HP, IBM, virtualisation, x86 server market

• Quiz: What were the first products from today's biggest tech companies?

  Cisco, Microsoft, IBM: They all started somewhere. Take this quiz to see how well you know the humble origins of today's tech titans

  By Tim Greene | 18 January, 2010 12:17

  Tags: Apple, at&t, Cisco, HP, IBM, iron mountain, Microsoft

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  CIOs highlight BI, virtualisation and cloud computing as key to competitiveness

  An IBM survey of 2500 international and 129 local CIOs suggests business intelligence and centralisation of IT systems through virtualisation and cloud computing will be crucial to remaining competitive in the coming months.

  By Rodney Gedda | 15 September, 2009 10:57

  Tags: business intelligence, CIOs, cloud computing, IBM, surveys, virtualisation

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  IBM, Monash extend IT education partnership

  IBM and Monash University have partnered on a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program aimed at developing IT leaders versed in both technology and business.

  By Tim Lohman | 28 August, 2009 11:11

  Tags: careers, IBM, it skills, education, Monash University

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  CIO and CSO should take a follow the money approach to security: IBM X-Force

  CIOs and CSOs could do well to consider the monetisation cost and overall profitability of security risks when considering how to safe guard their organisations, according to the findings of a new report from IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team.

  By Tim Lohman | 27 August, 2009 10:15

  Tags: IBM, security, X-Force

• IBM BladeCenter delivers speed, power savings

  Optimizing power consumption, CPU performance, and form factor is a never-ending battle in server design and IBM's Bladecenter HS22 succeeds on all counts.

  By John Bass | 11 August, 2009 03:41

  Tags: IBM, servers, virtualisation

• IBM steps up healthcare application work in China

  IBM is expanding work on applications for use in Chinese hospitals after spotting an opportunity in the country's massive spending plan for healthcare reform.

  By Owen Fletcher | 17 June, 2009 20:25

  Tags: China, healthcare, IBM

• Data center derby heats up

  Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

  By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17

  Tags: Cisco, HP, IBM, oracle, servers, sun, VMware

• IBM appliance speeds up software installation

  In an effort to set itself apart from other server vendors, IBM on Tuesday said it was stepping up efforts to make purpose-built appliances that remove the complexity of integrating software and services in a system.

  By Agam Shah | 19 May, 2009 14:02

  Tags: IBM

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  What to do if your cloud provider disappears

  Software developer Christopher Shockey saw the first signs of trouble in late 2008. A sales rep who had always represented Web application development provider Coghead was now calling on behalf of Coghead's much larger rival Salesforce.com.

  By Robert L. Scheier | 21 April, 2009 09:05

  Tags: cloud computing, coghead, CRM, development platforms, ERP, IBM, salesforce.com, sap, sugarCRM

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  Social networking behind the firewall

  Microsoft calls it TownSquare. Deloitte hosts D Street. IBM has its Beehive, and Best Buy its BlueShirt Nation.

  By Mary Brandel | 12 August, 2008 09:01

  Tags: Microsoft, Deloitte, D Street, IBM, Beehive, Best Buy, BlueShirt nation, social networks, social networking, LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace