The results of the partnership will be used in logic, memory, and interface products for the customers of IBM’s Common Platform technology alliance, such as Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung.
University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB researchers have developed new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. This research project was funded by IBM, Intel and other partners including the U.S. National Science Foundation. This new manufacturing process is called block co-polymer lithography or BCP. The scientists…
IBM’s PHANTOM project aims to detect ghosts in the virtual machine.
Google entered the mobile phone market this week when T-Mobile rolled out the first handset running the search engine's Android mobile operating system. Oracle also ventured into new territory by announcing that it will sell a hardware product — a database server the company developed with Hewlett-Packard. IBM threatened to leave the standards bodies that determine software interoperability regulations over concerns that the standardization process is unfair. And Microsoft is still searching for a search strategy to compete with Google.
One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I’ve believed for some time: IT managers don’t really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money….
Canonical, maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical has advanced Linux on both the desktop and server and should be a good fit for the Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Canonical supports several other open-source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart, and by joining, it should be able to support and benefit from other Linux community members in the Linux Foundation, including IBM, Novell, Oracle, Intel, Red Hat and VMware.
- Canonical, maintainer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux
Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of
Linux.
By joining, Canonical can both contribute to and benefit from the foundation
that features many of the Linux community’s leading comp…
Its policy changes are seen by experts as the fallout over the adoption of Microsoft’s Open XML document format as an international standard.
IBM on Monday introduced new source-code-scanning software designed to spot security bugs as programs are being written.
AppScan Developer Edition is aimed at integrating into the development process — helping developers stamp out vulnerabilities early in the process.
Fortinet has entered the database security space with a new appliance based on technology it acquired from IPLocks. The product - which supports IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and a host of other databases - is targeted at mid-level enterprises looking to address database security concerns. Fortinet also has plans to release other versions of the appliance to support both larger and smaller database environments down the road.
- Fortinet has officially added database security to its repertoire with the first member of a family of appliances based on technology acquired from IPLocks earlier this year.
With the release of FortiDB-1000B, Fortinet is making good on its promise to extend its security focus to the database laye…
