Tag IBM

July 9, 2013

IBM adds SoftLayer to Cloud Services

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag acquisition, API, baremetal, change, Cloud, datacenter, DNS, finance, government, IBM, Internet, policy, servers, shared, softlayer, virtualisation

IBM has finalised its deal with SoftLayer, announced last month. This grows IBM's capability to deliver cloud-based solutions considerably. SoftLayer adds new datacenters, an existing portfolio of customers, and a…

May 1, 2013

IBM manipulates atoms for stop motion movie

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag Americas, California, film, IBM, research, usa, YouTube

What do you do when you have a scanning tunnelling electron microscope (STM) and a lot of time? You borrow from the skills and techniques of Ray Harryhausen and create the…

August 25, 2011

Happy Birthday: Linux is 20 years old

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding, Featured Tag Android, anniversary, ARM, development, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, Internet, Linux, sgi, tools, wintel

So Linux is 20.. It's come a long way from the home-brew operating system that was for IBM-AT clones that Linus Torvalds imagined back then. At the time he was…

August 12, 2011

A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.

By John Dixon in Featured Tag anniversary, BIOS, board, Cable, capacity, change, Cloud, Dell, history, HP, htc, HTTP, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, package, printer, ram, reflections, seagate, servers, shared, sharing, space, standard, switch, wintel

30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…