All Entries Tagged With: "IBM"
Worst of times is the best of times for IBM?
Share In recent conversations with IBMers, one theme nearly always came up: this is a big company with deeper pockets than any other company in the tech business. The blunt message: recession or no recession, it’s only a matter of time before less well endowed rivals buckle.
IBM builds water cooled supercomputer
Share IBM has teamed up with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) to build a super efficient water cooled supercomputer which could lower the system’s carbon footprint by a whopping 85 per cent. Incoming search terms:Liquid-cooled jblKFA2 Geforce 210 cooling modibm ds4300 raid controller batterysupercomputer vgaReplacement Heart Valve IBMoptical PCB IBMacer aspire one cooling [...]
IBM Develops New Memory Technology Called Racetrack
Share All the latest buzz is about SSDs in terms of new and faster storage solutions compared to the still dominant HDDs. While magnetic hard disk drives offer fairly large capacities at very reasonable prices, they are mechanical devices and subject to slow access times and possible failure. Solid state drives are already quite a [...]
Oracle Buys Sun
Share We reported about a possible acquisition of Sun by IBM, but Sun’s board rejected the offer from the industry giant close to two weeks ago. Well, as it turns out, instead Oracle tied the knot with them yesterday and bought Sun for $7.4 Billion, although Sun brings $1.8 billion of net cash to the [...]
IBM Close to Buying Sun Microsystems for 7 Billion
Share Apparently, the talks between International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Sun Microsystems, Inc., which were going on during the last few weeks, are in their finalizing stages. Reportedly, I.B.M. is offering $9.50 a share which would value Sun at close to $7 billion.