Tag: IBM

  • Dell SecureWorks

    Dell SecureWorks

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Dell SecureWorks Close Date: FebruaryPrice: $612 millionClosed right at the start of the year, this deal gives Dell a mature portfolio of managed service capabilities and a better way to engage with SMB and mid-market customers thirsting for turnkey security offerings. Thoma Bravo Buys Tripwire Close Date: May Price: Undisclosed,A private equity firm with some… Read more

  • IBM Acquires Emptoris Supply Chain Procurement Cloud Service

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IBM on Dec. 15 added another new element to its enterprise cloud service menu when it acquired supply chain procurement software provider Emptoris. Terms of the deal were not released. Emptoris, based in Burlington, Mass., automates the increasingly complex buying, bidding and accounting process for enterprise procurement teams and does it with a global perspective.… Read more

  • IBM Launches Apps for iPad, Android Tablets

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IBM announced eight new social networking and collaboration mobile apps designed to address enterprise-class requirements on tablets. The new software, available for download today from popular application stores, takes IBM’s industry-leading social networking, real-time collaboration and online meeting capabilities from behind the company firewall and places it into the hands of tablet users. The new… Read more

  • IBM Leads as Server Shipments Grow 7 Percent in Q3: Gartner

    Nathan Eddy

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    Worldwide server shipments in the third quarter of 2011 grew 7.2 percent year-on-year, while revenue increased 5.2 percent year-on-year, according to IT research firm Gartner. All of the top five global vendors had revenue increases for the third quarter of 2011 except HP and Oracle. HP declined 3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle achieved flat growth.… Read more

  • IBM zEnterprise System to Bring Windows to the Mainframe

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System. When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested… Read more

  • IBM Brings Data Analytics, Intelligence Capabilities to Security Services Solutions

    Channel Insider Staff

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    IBM unveiled enhancements to its security services portfolio, promising customers improved data analytics and deeper real-time analysis of security threats. Customers can analyze data from multiple sources across the enterprise and determine how to tweak their security strategies and make sure security and business needs are aligned using new intelligence tools and services, IBM said… Read more