IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list; IBM tackles "dirtier" metadata issues

IBM News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Learn best practices for extending your network architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the 6 design principles that will transform your campus net and how you can tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's IBM News Alert, 06/28/07 IBM, HP share bragging rights on supercomputer list, 06/27/07: IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival HP has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. IBM tackles "dirtier" metadata issues, 06/27/07: IBM tackles thorny problem of metadata with software that manages it and reports on how it is used. IBM supercomputer more powerful than 1.5-mile-high stack of laptops, 06/26/07: IBM says it has nearly tripled the performance of the technology behind the world’s fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputer, developing a system that is potentially 100,000 times more powerful than a home computer. It will be used by the U.S. ... The IDC Enterprise Panel: Join IDC's panel of IT influencers and decision-makers. Your contributions will be compiled and distributed to technology and telecommunications vendors all over the world. As a thank you for joining, you will receive select free IDC research, and discounted IDC conference passes. Click here to learn more IBM uses green technology to build the company’s largest data center, 06/22/07: IBM’s green initiative takes root in Boulder, Colo., with expansion that will make the facility the company’s largest data center in the world. HP has designs on IBM in software battle, 06/21/07: HP and IBM, both strong in many markets, set their sights on software as the category that will define their market leading positions. IBM pushes z9 mainframe for small business, 06/21/07: IBM unveiled a Web site and IT security software application Thursday as part of its effort to compete with HP and Sun for customers in the fast-growing small and midsize business sector. Analyst: Lotus Notes to keep spot in e-mail hierarchy, 06/21/07: Despite an upsurge in open-source and hosted competitors, IBM's Lotus Notes corporate e-mail client software and Domino e-mail server is expected to maintain its second banana status behind Microsoft Outlook and Exchange through at least 2011.

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