SOMERS, N.Y. (December 07, 1999) – -IBM today announced a record-breaking Standard Application Benchmark result for SAP(TM) R/3(R) Release 4.0B inter-enterprise business solutions on the RS/6000 Model S80 Enterprise Server.The S80 server, with IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, supported 1,708 Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark users in the two-tier client/server benchmark configuration. These results follow the […]
Delta is one of first U.S. airlines to test new wireless travel services: Trials Now Underway; Nationwide Service Planned for Early 2000 N/A (December 07, 1999) – Delta Air Lines is working with IBM & Modem Media to develop & test a new travel service that gives its customers wireless access to up – 07 […]
Country’s Leading Health and Related Benefits Organization Selects 25 Terabytes of ‘Shark’ Storage San Jose, CA (December 07, 1999) – IBM announced today that Aetna U.S. Healthcare® has selected IBM’s recently released Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) to store and manage claims and encounter information from the Prudential HealthCare (PHC) businesses — now owned and administered […]
NORTH CASTLE, N.Y (December 07, 1999) – -IBM Global Financing announced today that it provides IT financing and leasing solutions to 95 of the 100 largest companies in the United States.(a) Nabisco Inc., Dow Chemical Co. and Aetna are among the many U.S. companies who rely on IBM Global Financing, the world’s largest IT financier. […]
BEAVERTON, Ore (December 07, 1999) – IBM today announced two industry leading UNIX operating system enhancements for its NUMA-Q server line including improved workload management and integral support for next generation Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies.The new features in NUMA-Q’s DYNIX/ptx UNIX operating system, a member of the Project Monterey product line for Intel’s IA-32 […]
SOMERS, NY & WAYNE, PA (December 06, 1999) – IBM Corp. and USA Technologies Inc. today announced an industry first — an e-commerce solution that allows consumers to conduct simple, secure and direct transactions virtually anywhere.This self-service technology — called e-Port — is the first non-PC device to allow consumers to conduct e-commerce purchases at […]
Blue Gene” to Tackle Protein Folding Grand Challenge YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY (December 06, 1999) – IBM today announced a new $100 million exploratory research initiative to build a supercomputer 500 times more powerful than the world’s fastest computers today.The new computer — nicknamed “Blue Gene” by IBM researchers — will be capable of more than […]
SOMERS, N.Y (December 01, 1999) – IBM today announced the IBM Fiber Saver, the first and only ready-to-go optical connectivity “solution in a box” designed to provide S/390 customers with fast and more reliable data transfer at a lower price. Fiber Saver is the first offering resulting from an agreement between IBM and Nortel Networks […]
Companies to Offer Mobile Computing Business Solutions and “Real Time” Wireless Access to Mission-Critical Data with Security and Reliability KANSAS CITY, MO, & SOMERS, NY (December 01, 1999) – IBM and Sprint PCS (NYSE: PCS) today announced they plan to jointly develop and test a variety of wireless business applications and services for the mobile […]
LONDON (November 30, 1999) – The UK’s second largest fashion retailer, Arcadia Group, today announced that it has signed a strategic Information Technology (IT) outsourcing agreement with IBM. The agreement valued at £75 million ($124 million) over 10 years is for the direct management and support of all its 5,000 point-of-sale terminals in 2,000 standalone […]