Tag: IBM

  • IBM Lotus Takes Social Networking to New Heights

    IBM Lotus Takes Social Networking to New Heights

    Darryl K. Taft

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—With collaboration as its legacy, IBM’s Lotus division went back to its roots and announced its plans to deliver social software for businesses. IBM’s announcements at the company’s Lotusphere 2007 show here represent the “most dramatic expansion of collaborative technology ever,” according to Michael Rhodin, general manager of IBM Lotus, particularly as opposed to… Read more

  • IBM Uses ‘Many Eyes’ to Visualize Data

    IBM Uses ‘Many Eyes’ to Visualize Data

    Darryl K. Taft

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—IBM’s ever-vigilant research arm employs the collective power of many of the brightest brains in the business to come up with solutions to hard computer science problems. As part of the company’s continuing effort to deliver social computing software, IBM will launch “Many Eyes,” a service that allows people to explore different visual representations… Read more

  • IBM Updates SMB Websphere Portal Play

    IBM Updates SMB Websphere Portal Play

    Jessica Davis

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    IBM has updated Websphere Portal Express to version 6.0, bringing the Express version, aimed at the small and midsize business and mid-range market, up to date with the full enterprise version and adding an Eclipse-based drag-and-drop development tool for portlets. The upgrade, announced Jan 22. at IBM’s Lotusphere conference, alleviates one of the biggest pain… Read more

  • Microsoft Crashes IBM Lotus Party with Migration Tools

    Microsoft Crashes IBM Lotus Party with Migration Tools

    Darryl K. Taft

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    Knocking on the door of its competition at the opening of their annual user event, Microsoft announced new tools to help IBM Lotus Notes/Domino users migrate to the Microsoft fold. At the kickoff of IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of… Read more

  • IBM Turns Up Heat on Telecom Management Rivals

    IBM Turns Up Heat on Telecom Management Rivals

    Paula Musich

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    Underscoring the 25 percent growth reported on Jan. 18 by IBM’s Tivoli unit in its fourth quarter results is a strong push by IBM into portions of the telecommunications market. Coming up close on the one year anniversary of IBM’s $865 million acquisition of Micromuse, IBM has seen “incredible growth rates” from that acquisition, which… Read more

  • IBM Storage Arrays: Small on Price, Large on Performance

    IBM Storage Arrays: Small on Price, Large on Performance

    Chris Preimesberger

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    Continuing its strategy to add more products to its SMB storage catalog, IBM Jan. 16 introduced two entry-level-priced disk arrays with high-end, integrated management software boasting functionality previously found only in much larger systems. Big Blue’s announcement comes at a time when competing storage vendors, such as NEC, LSI Logic, EMC, NetApp, Quantum, Sun Microsystems… Read more