Nicholas Kolakowski

IBM announced Jan. 29 three multiyear agreements with global corporations to provide infrastructure and IT services on a worldwide scope. The moves could help bolster IBM Global Services, the company’s international business consulting and IT management division, whose 2008 revenues of $9.6 billion were down 4 percent from 2007. An eight-year agreement with Idea Cellular, […]

Cisco Systems’ purchase of Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence plays into the company’s “build, buy and partner” strategy for expanding rapidly into new markets and taking advantage of market transitions. Cisco and Richards-Zeta completed the deal Jan. 27. The enterprise networking giant did not disclose the financial details of its latest acquisition. As a scalable and open […]

Panasonic is gearing up to revamp a pair of its rugged Toughbook notebooks to include the latest Intel processors, as well as new management features and technologies more typically found in commercial offerings from Dell and Hewlett-Packard. However, the updated notebooks still feature the rugged characteristics that make Panasonic Toughbooks a unique but pricy alternative […]

Sun Microsystems’ results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009, announced Jan. 27, show the company taking a beating in many categories, with revenues decreasing 10.9 percent year over year from 2008. Perhaps unsurprisingly, customers have reduced spending on proprietary high-end systems such as servers based on the company’s UltraSPARC processors to embrace lower-end software […]

The HP ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem has integrated new vendors and data center solutions that may not only help Hewlett-Packard expand its adaptive-networks vision within the $50 billion U.S. server market, but may also help it retain market share in the face of competition from Cisco Systems. HP’s Jan. 26 announcement included multiple vendors-including Aastra, […]

A survey conducted by IBM’s main user group found that businesses are still interested in investing in virtualization despite the recession in the United States, although some companies are still grappling with how best to use the technology. SHARE, an independent IBM user community, issued the results of the study Jan. 26. This survey of […]