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Paul Horn, who led IBMs research division for more than decade, is stepping down to pursue a career in academics at New York University, the Armonk, N.Y. company announced July 17. Horn, 60, took the helm of IBM Research in 1996, and helped develop and oversee several major projects for IBM, including its Deep Blue […]

With a new partnership firmly in place, Intel and Sun Microsystems are looking to jointly enter the telecommunications market with a combination of Intel processors and hardware and the Solaris 10 operating system. By the third quarter of this year, Intel will have two telecom servers that are certified to run Suns Solaris 10 OS, […]

Intel is adding a number of new processors for gamers and high-end PC users, including the first dual-core mobile chip from the companys Core 2 Extreme line. Starting July 16, Intel will debut its Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor for notebooks, which the company said will boost performance by about 28 percent compared to its […]

Stratus Technologies plans on delivering two new servers that will complete the transition of the companys fault-tolerant systems to the latest Intel Xeon processors. In addition to using dual-core Xeon chips in its low-end ftServer 2500 and midrange ftServer 4400, Stratus announced July 16 that it will offer support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]

IBM is launching an updated version of its AIX operating system July 11, and for the first time Big Blue is looking to offer this OS as part of open beta program in order to entice more customers to its Unix platform. In addition, IBM executives are detailing new features in AIX 6, including new […]

Storage consultant GlassHouse Technologies announced July 11 that it will acquire RapidApp, a Chicago-based company that provides infrastructure services and support for enterprise and midmarket companies. The move will allow GlassHouse to offer more server and storage virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and application deployment services and consulting to its enterprise customers, according to a statement […]

Former Compaq and Hewlett-Packard executive Michael Capellas is slated to become the CEO of First Data later this year, following the $29 billion acquisition of the financial-transaction processor company by a private equity firm. Earlier this year, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a private equity firm, announced that it would buy Denver-based First Data for $29 billion. […]

Dell plans on expanding the reach of its factory-installed Linux PCs to include small and midsize businesses and Europe, Michael Dell, the companys founder and CEO, said at a July 10 event in New York. At an event to promote its new line of desktops and notebooks for small businesses, Michael Dell held a roundtable […]

NEW YORK—Dell wants small businesses to know that it can offer more besides low-cost PCs. At a July 10 event here to promote Vostro—a new line of desktops and notebooks specifically designed for businesses with one to 25 employees—Dell executives also rolled out new services designed for small-business customers. In addition to the new services, […]

Theres money to be made in virtualization services, according to IDC. In a report released July 11, the research firm found that the market for virtualization services will grow from $5.5 billion in 2006 to $11.7 billion in 2011, as businesses turn to the technology to address a range of issues in the data center […]