Entries tagged with 'IBM'

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]

Today…
IBM and Sun announced that IBM will distribute the Solaris operating system (OS) and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and Blade Center servers.
Now that’s got to be an indication of how good Solaris 10 is, and how much demand it’s getting now. This agreement has just effectively opened up Sun’s [...]

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007:

Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM’s BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle.
GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands -
Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I [...]

Links of interest for 17 May 2007 - 25 May 2007:

ZFS Auto Completion for Bash - Now you can get ZFS auto completion for Bash with this script.
Promising antispam technique gets nod - Great idea, but it’s biggest caveat is the fact it requires both sending and receiving mail servers to have this configured and [...]

I was a little surprised and saddened to read that DARPA has decided to pump US$250m into Cray and US$244m in IBM for them to work on DARPA’s next high performance computing initiative - their “Petascale” program.
There was a lot of bidding and vying for the investment and it came down to 3 final contenders [...]