Company announces new versions of its BrightStor storage products; the venerable Enterprise Backup product is discontinued
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue also discloses plans to integrate its DB2 and Informix Dynamix Server product lines in future versions of both products
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM’s move could drive down the cost of entry for many potential adopters—and stimulate additional sales for BladeCenter
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A cooler, more flexible, and more powerful Itanium design may yet succeed where brute force alone hasn’t been enough
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Big Blue also previews z/OS version 7, due out next year
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Controversy highlights the way an ambitious Big Blue competes with many of its long-time partners
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The state of Idaho has tapped a zLinux solution to achieve immediate ROI of nearly half-a-million dollars annually
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
    
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Even though Intel has embraced 64-bit on the low-end with its new Xeon chips, it hasn’t given up on Itanium
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Novell, Red Hat, Sun make waves
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Computer Associates positions open source Ingres as a natural for Big Iron Linux; IBM's Cloudscape will become Apache's Derby 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Freshly certified for Linux, Unisys’ ES7000 supports mainframe-like features such as dynamic partitioning
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    IBM releases two new and three updated CICS tools
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The new system is being promoted as an extensible platform capable of hosting for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, HP-UX, Linux, and even OpenVMS workloads
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    SLAs have traditionally relied on operating system utilities to determine process availability -- but their accuracy isn't assured. Measuring the availability of business processes may hold the key to correct application performance assessment.  
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Power5 and new AIX 5.3 bring multi-threading, enhanced virtualization to pSeries
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A major accord last month between Sun and Fujitsu could fundamentally shake up the high-end server space
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Continued use of legacy environments may result in charges of negligence
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Blade server success founded on key mainframe concepts