CenterBeam
NetworkWorld, 11/25/02: Blades begin to make their mark
By Deni Connor
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS - As Dell this week becomes the second major vendor to ship blade servers - Hewlett-Packard was first - customers and industry analysts say they are beginning to see signs of what vendors have promised all along: that the compact machines will revolutionize computer network design.
Outsourcing company Centerbeam in Santa Clara is among the believers.
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"Our company is 3 years old, and where we started out with 6U, then 3U, then 1U servers, now we've gone to blades," says Glenn Ricart, Centerbeam's CTO and a founder. "Each time, we've saved on space, power and cabling."
Centerbeam uses HP's BL p-Class blades to host back-up activities for its customers.
"Not only will we see the blade server trend continue, but it's forming the whole basis for a new way servers will be installed," Ricart says. "Looking forward, the information infrastructure provided by a data center will be cages in which you can install the server blades you need, so the common power supplies will change and the cabling will be replaced by the buses inside the cages."
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IBM
eWeek, 11/25/02: IBM Targets 'Lifeboat' Technology at Downtime
By Carmen Nobel and Michael R. Zimmerman
IBM is developing new technologies and software that it says will improve operational efficiency by reducing system downtime and simplifying management.
Officials from the company's Personal Systems Group last week at Comdex here said the Somers, N.Y., division hopes to launch by next fall several applications under its new ThinkVantage Technologies umbrella that ease management of PCs for corporate IT managers and users alike.
One product, Client Rescue and Recovery, includes a set of features built in to IBM desktops and notebooks that will help users access critical data and the Internet in the event of hard drive or operating system failures, officials said.
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EDS
The Wall Street Journal, 11/25/02: EDS , Xerox Join Forces
STAMFORD, Conn -- Xerox Corp (XRX) and Electronic Data Systems Copr. (EDS ) formed an alliance that would integrate EDS' information technology with Xerox document management systems and services.
In a press release Monday, the companies said the alliance will target the desktop and document management systems market and the convergence of IT services for the general office.
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Microsoft
The New York Times, 11/24/02: Microsofter
By STEVE BODOW
Steven A. Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, is a freak for numbers. He doesn't just think about financials. He has memorized virtually every sales number for every one of his divisions, quarter by quarter, for years. This is a man who has favorite spreadsheet cells.
His own schedule is broken out in a spreadsheet, and in his office on the top floor of Building 34 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., he happily offers to show it to me. ''I'm religious about the way I manage my time,'' he says.
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