IBM and eMeter have announced a bundled software package of eMeter’s software bundled on IBM Power7 systems for Smart Grid implementations.
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IBM Hit With Another Mainframe Antitrust Complaint
TurboHercules filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission claiming that IBM is illegally creating a monopoly that is costing users billions of dollars
IBM To Probe Electric Car Impact On UK Grid
The tech company is looking into how the UK's grid needs to be overhauled for electric vehicles
New Server Cooling System Puts Blades In A Bucket
GRC's data centre cooling system saves energy costs and keeps things simple - by dunking standard blades vertically in a bath of coolant
Hardware Vendors Line Up Storage Offerings
Storage is the uncontrolled part of IT expenditure. That's a temptation that few hardware vendors can resist.
Red Hat Virtualisation To Power IBM Cloud Service
By including the new Red Hat virtualisation-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn't exist previously
IBM Transforms Peterborough Into ‘Smarter City’
The city of Peterborough is working with IBM to develop an online portal for measuring environmental data
Gartner Rebuffs Cost Claims For Converged Data Centres
Analyst firm Gartner argues that combining data centre networks can often create more problems that it solves
IBM Indian Mainframe Business Under Fire
IBM aims to discredit a study in India that claimed its mainframe business practices could hinder competition in that country's market
Cisco Enters Portable Data Centre Market
The networking giant is moving into the portable container data centre market
IBM Banks on Latest Chip Development For System x
The next generation of IBM System x servers are banking heavily on Intel's Nehalem and IBM chipsets. The plan is to shake up mid-range servers
IBM Boffins Claim Major Chip Advance
Researchers at IBM are claiming a breakthrough in chip design, after enabling chips to communicate via pulses of light rather than copper wire
IBM Workers Braced For More Job Cuts
IBM workers are bracing themselves for a fresh round of job losses, despite Big Blue posting a rise in sales and profits
IBM Adds Deduplication To Mainframes
For the first time ever IBM is adding a deduplication appliance to its System z mainframe server that can compress up to 25TB of tape application data down to just 1TB