Keeping hard drives ‘fit’ saves customers time and money SAN JOSE, Calif (July 29, 1998) – IBM today announced a new technology called Drive Fitness Test (DFT) that lets users easily and quickly test the health of their IBM desktop PC and notebook hard disk drives.Research done with system manufacturers shows that the majority of […]
Frees IT Shops to Focus on Real Business Needs SOMERS, N.Y (July 28, 1998) – IBM today announced the worldwide availability of IBM MQSeries* Workflow, powerful business process automation and workflow management software that gives organizations more control of their business activities by automating mission-critical processes involving their employees, customers and applications.Part of IBM’s MQSeries […]
N/A RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC (July 28, 1998) – IBM today announced two new General Business Series monitors and a 4-Device Port Universal Serial Bus (USB) hub option providing users increased manageability on their desktop. Continuing its leadership position in visual products, IBM also reduced pricing across it entire General Business Series line today, with […]
S/390 G5 Server Customers First To Receive Industry’s Fastest General Purpose System FISHKILL, N.Y (July 28, 1998) – – IBM today announced that its S/390 G5 Parallel Enterprise Server smashed the 1,000 MIPS barrier in recent testing making it the industry’s first available mainframe server to offer more than 1,000 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) […]
Free Software Source Code Available in August AUSTIN, Texas, & CAMBRIDGE, Mass (July 28, 1998) – IBM and Lotus Development Corp. today announced they are donating industry-standard security software source code to the Internet community which can be used for making online commerce easier and more secure.The security software is based on Internet standards defined […]
N/A WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK (July 24, 1998) – . The Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s most respected authority on record-setting achievements, has officially recognized the IBM-powered Internet site of the 1998 Nagano Olympic Winter Games for setting two world records in Internet traffic.The two records, issued on July 14, 1998, were for […]
N/A Zurich, Switzerl & /Toulouse, France (July 24, 1998) – — IBM scientists and a team of international collaborators today reported the discovery of “molecular wheels”: propeller-shaped molecules that rotate rapidly in a bearing-like structure formed by surrounding molecules. The scientists believe this unexpected phenomenon shows great promise for the development of molecular mechanical devices […]
Technical Support Beats Competition by Wide Margin SOMERS, NEW YORK (July 24, 1998) – The IBM ThinkPad family of notebook computers has taken top honors in an annual survey of value added resellers (VARs) conducted by VARBusiness, a key channel publication, reaffirming IBM’s leadership in mobile computing.In addition to being awarded the highest overall score, […]
N/A RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C (July 23, 1998) – -IBM today announced plans to deliver new Netfinity Fibre Channel hardware tools capable of providing up to 100 MB/sec(1) data transmissions over distances up to 10 km(2) to support the growing data storage demands of business-criticial enterprise networks. Available in September, this new Fibre Channel solution […]
Strengthens GSO Offering with Tivoli Plus Module, Smartcard Support and More Austin, TX (July 22, 1998) – IBM today announced a new version of software that eliminates the need for people using multiple systems to sign on to each one individually — enabling secure access to all approved systems through a single sign-on.IBM Global Sign-On […]