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IBM Enterprise Storage Server Key to Storage Consolidation at Aetna U.S. Healthcare’s Prudential Unit
Country’s Leading Health and Related Benefits Organization Selects 25 Terabytes of ‘Shark’ Storage San Jose, CA (December 07, 1999) – IBM announced today that Aetna U.S. Healthcare® has selected IBM’s recently released Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) to store and manage claims and encounter information from the Prudential HealthCare (PHC) businesses — now owned and administered […]
Benefits of IT Leasing Recognized: 95 of the 100 Largest U.S. Companies Rely On IBM Global Financing for Leasing and Financing IT Solutions
NORTH CASTLE, N.Y (December 07, 1999) – -IBM Global Financing announced today that it provides IT financing and leasing solutions to 95 of the 100 largest companies in the United States.(a) Nabisco Inc., Dow Chemical Co. and Aetna are among the many U.S. companies who rely on IBM Global Financing, the world’s largest IT financier. […]
NUMA-Q Servers Get Industry Leading Workload Management and SAN Features
BEAVERTON, Ore (December 07, 1999) – IBM today announced two industry leading UNIX operating system enhancements for its NUMA-Q server line including improved workload management and integral support for next generation Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies.The new features in NUMA-Q’s DYNIX/ptx UNIX operating system, a member of the Project Monterey product line for Intel’s IA-32 […]
IBM, USA Technologies Announce Self-Service Breakthrough, E-Commerce Technology Offering New Way to Shop, Advertise
SOMERS, NY & WAYNE, PA (December 06, 1999) – IBM Corp. and USA Technologies Inc. today announced an industry first — an e-commerce solution that allows consumers to conduct simple, secure and direct transactions virtually anywhere.This self-service technology — called e-Port — is the first non-PC device to allow consumers to conduct e-commerce purchases at […]
IBM Announces $100 Million Research Initiative to Build World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Blue Gene” to Tackle Protein Folding Grand Challenge YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY (December 06, 1999) – IBM today announced a new $100 million exploratory research initiative to build a supercomputer 500 times more powerful than the world’s fastest computers today.The new computer — nicknamed “Blue Gene” by IBM researchers — will be capable of more than […]
IBM and Sprint to Extend the Sprint PCS Wireless Web to the Enterprise
Companies to Offer Mobile Computing Business Solutions and “Real Time” Wireless Access to Mission-Critical Data with Security and Reliability KANSAS CITY, MO, & SOMERS, NY (December 01, 1999) – IBM and Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS) today announced they plan to jointly develop and test a variety of wireless business applications and services for the mobile […]
IBM Introduces Ready-to-Go Optical Networking Solution for S/390 Data Centers
SOMERS, N.Y (December 01, 1999) – IBM today announced the IBM Fiber Saver, the first and only ready-to-go optical connectivity “solution in a box” designed to provide S/390 customers with fast and more reliable data transfer at a lower price. Fiber Saver is the first offering resulting from an agreement between IBM and Nortel Networks […]
Arcadia Group Sign £75 Million Strategic IT Agreement with IBM
LONDON (November 30, 1999) – The UK’s second largest fashion retailer, Arcadia Group, today announced that it has signed a strategic Information Technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with IBM. The agreement valued at £75 million ($124 million) over 10 years is for the direct management and support of all its 5,000 point-of-sale terminals in 2,000 standalone […]
IBM Partners with Extricity Software to Deliver Business-to-Business Integration Solutions
Agreement Enables Customers to Easily Create Real-Time Internet-Based Trading Partner Communities Somers, NY (November 29, 1999) – IBM today announced an agreement with Extricity** Software, Inc.to deliver Internet-based business-to-business (B2B) integration software solutions worldwide. Under the agreement, IBM will resell and market Extricity AllianceSeries** B2B e-commerce software.The agreement with Extricity extends IBM’s industry-leading business integration […]
IBM Expands Business Intelligence Initiative with NUMA-Q Teraplex Center for Data Warehousing
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 […]