IBM Delivers Model 810 iSeries for HA Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

When IBM launched the iSeries for High Availability line of machines back in September, these specialized, low-cost iSeries servers were only available in Model 825, 870, and 890 configurations. Smaller shops, in which a Model 810 was a more appropriate hot backup machine for applications and databases, were left out of the loop. After testing the market with rebates on Model 810s when used in conjunction with high availability software, IBM last week formally announced a Model 810 iSeries for HA server. READ MORE >

IBM Explains Merged Systems and Technology Groups
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

IBM last week came clean on the fact that it has indeed merged the Enterprise Systems Group and the Technology Group, and hopes that the merger of the units gives it synergies and efficiencies that were not always possible when they operated separately. The Enterprise Systems Group develops and markets its four server lines and storage devices, and Technology Group has a big custom chip business and had a big disk drive business before IBM sold it to rival Hitachi last year. READ MORE >

Gartner Says Server Revenue Up in 2003
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

While it's been known for weeks that server shipments climbed steadily in 2003, what was not so obvious was whether the actual money that those server sales generated would grow in the last quarter of 2003 and throughout the full year. As it turns out, at least as far as Gartner analysts can figure, there actually was revenue growth last year. This, perhaps more than any other factor in the IT market, is reason for a small amount (no irrational exuberance, please) of optimism. READ MORE >

As I See It: Jobs and Jehovah
by Victor Rozek

Hewlett-Packard's CEO, Carly Fiorina, made a provocative statement a while back. "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," she said. It was a telling, if somewhat flippant, remark that sought to vindicate the practice of outsourcing, while dismissing opposition to it for not being divinely sanctioned. As a measure of how far we've slid down the outsourcing job drain, Ms. Fiorina apparently could see no benefit in preserving middle class jobs. READ MORE >

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