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Roots and IBM Canada Team Up to Launch Roots.com in Time for Holiday Shopping Season
Toronto, Ont (November 24, 1999) – Roots — Canada’s leading lifestyle brand — today launched its new Web site offering more than 200 different styles of athletic wear, leather goods, casual clothing and accessories. IBM, the technology partner of Roots, created the site and is providing the e-business products and services necessary to bring Roots’ […]
New IBM Program Helps Customers Obtain Parts for Older PCs & Servers
Program Resellers, iGo and I.T. Xchange, Manage Product Inventory and Provide Sales Support Somers, NY (November 23, 1999) – IBM* announced today a new program that enables customers to buy select Options for older IBM PCs and servers from authorized resellers up to 18 months after the Options are no longer offered through IBM. The […]
IBM Raises the Bar on Enterprise-Level Storage Performance
Shark” storage server devours the competition in performance tests San Jose, CA (November 18, 1999) – .IBM announced today performance results for its new Enterprise Storage Server — code named ‘Shark’ — which demonstrate that ‘Shark’ outperforms competitive products from EMC and Hitachi. Tests1 conducted by IBM at its Santa Teresa Laboratory confirm that ‘Shark’ […]
IBM Supercomputer at Johns Hopkins Hunts for Clues to Heart and Brain Disease
Deep Computing Technology Helps Scientists Reduce Research Time and Bring New Drugs to Market Faster BALTIMORE (November 17, 1999) – IBM today announced that Johns Hopkins University will be installing an RS/6000 SP supercomputer in its Center for Imaging Science at the Whiting School of Engineering to help find cures for diseases of the heart […]
IBM Announces One-Stop Broadband Solution with Expanded ADSL Service from SBC Communications and New ADSL-Ready Aptiva PCs
Internet Solutions Cater to the Unique E-business Needs of Home-based Computer Users Research Triangle Park, NC (November 17, 1999) – . IBM® and SBC Communications, Inc., today announced the first one-stop broadband DSL solution, offering simple and convenient high speed Internet access to about 10 million customers in SBC’s service territory. The expanded relationship between […]
IBM Technology helps U.S. Airforce Design Safer Planes
RS/6000 SP Supercomputer Selected by Wright-Patterson Dayton, Ohio (November 17, 1999) – IBM today announced that the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has installed an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer to support its aircraft safety research.This Wright-Patterson system ranks fifty-ninth on the TOP500 list of the world’s […]
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Takes Delivery of IBM Supercomputer
RS/6000 SP and Deep Computing Technology to Assist in University Research WORCESTER, Mass (November 17, 1999) – Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has taken delivery of an IBM RS/6000 SP system that will help researchers tackle complex computational problems as diverse as determining the cause of accidental fires and explosions, understanding why plaque causes human arteries […]
Schlumberger Chooses IBM RS/6000 SP for Seismic Imaging Centers
HOUSTON, Texas (November 17, 1999) – Following an exhaustive review of the world’s most advanced computing technology, Schlumberger has selected the IBM RS/6000 SP for its major seismic depth imaging centers in Houston, Texas and Gatwick, UK.The Houston center has installed a 40-node RS/6000 SP, delivering more than 64 gigaflops (64 billion floating-point operations per […]
Sales of IBM Enterprise Storage Server Reach Global Proportions
A Range of Industries from Around the World Now Benefiting from “Shark” Disk Storage Performance San Jose, CA (November 16, 1999) – IBM today announced widespread customer acceptance of its Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) — code-named “Shark” — which has been purchased by 30 of the Global 100 companies in its first 30 days of […]
IBM Introduces Services Offering for Windows 2000
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, COMDEX (November 15, 1999) – IBM today announced the general availability of its Windows 2000 services which are designed to help companies evaluate and implement Microsoft’s new Windows 2000 operating environment.The new services offering, available through IBM Global Services’ Enterprise Services for Microsoft Technologies Practice, addresses five key Windows 2000 implementation areas:Readiness […]