NUMA-Q brings 50 customers to IBM Terabyte Club Somers, NY (November 29, 1999) – IBM today announced that it will expand its business intelligence (BI) initiative behind the newly acquired NUMA-Q® server brand with the development of a $13 million NUMA-Q Teraplex Integration Center, a comprehensive proof-of-concept center for BI solutions. The NUMA-Q server brand […]
Toronto, Ont (November 24, 1999) – Roots — Canada’s leading lifestyle brand — today launched its new Web site offering more than 200 different styles of athletic wear, leather goods, casual clothing and accessories. IBM, the technology partner of Roots, created the site and is providing the e-business products and services necessary to bring Roots’ […]
Program Resellers, iGo and I.T. Xchange, Manage Product Inventory and Provide Sales Support Somers, NY (November 23, 1999) – IBM* announced today a new program that enables customers to buy select Options for older IBM PCs and servers from authorized resellers up to 18 months after the Options are no longer offered through IBM. The […]
Shark” storage server devours the competition in performance tests San Jose, CA (November 18, 1999) – .IBM announced today performance results for its new Enterprise Storage Server — code named ‘Shark’ — which demonstrate that ‘Shark’ outperforms competitive products from EMC and Hitachi. Tests1 conducted by IBM at its Santa Teresa Laboratory confirm that ‘Shark’ […]
Deep Computing Technology Helps Scientists Reduce Research Time and Bring New Drugs to Market Faster BALTIMORE (November 17, 1999) – IBM today announced that Johns Hopkins University will be installing an RS/6000 SP supercomputer in its Center for Imaging Science at the Whiting School of Engineering to help find cures for diseases of the heart […]
Internet Solutions Cater to the Unique E-business Needs of Home-based Computer Users Research Triangle Park, NC (November 17, 1999) – . IBM® and SBC Communications, Inc., today announced the first one-stop broadband DSL solution, offering simple and convenient high speed Internet access to about 10 million customers in SBC’s service territory. The expanded relationship between […]
RS/6000 SP Supercomputer Selected by Wright-Patterson Dayton, Ohio (November 17, 1999) – IBM today announced that the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has installed an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer to support its aircraft safety research.This Wright-Patterson system ranks fifty-ninth on the TOP500 list of the world’s […]
RS/6000 SP and Deep Computing Technology to Assist in University Research WORCESTER, Mass (November 17, 1999) – Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has taken delivery of an IBM RS/6000 SP system that will help researchers tackle complex computational problems as diverse as determining the cause of accidental fires and explosions, understanding why plaque causes human arteries […]
HOUSTON, Texas (November 17, 1999) – Following an exhaustive review of the world’s most advanced computing technology, Schlumberger has selected the IBM RS/6000 SP for its major seismic depth imaging centers in Houston, Texas and Gatwick, UK.The Houston center has installed a 40-node RS/6000 SP, delivering more than 64 gigaflops (64 billion floating-point operations per […]
A Range of Industries from Around the World Now Benefiting from “Shark” Disk Storage Performance San Jose, CA (November 16, 1999) – IBM today announced widespread customer acceptance of its Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) — code-named “Shark” — which has been purchased by 30 of the Global 100 companies in its first 30 days of […]