Manek Dubash

IBM has provoked a war of words by specifically targeting HP customers in a new marketing and price campaign.

IBM has provoked a war of words by specifically targeting HP customers in a new marketing and price campaign. The new migration program is just the latest in a series of efforts by the two companies to poach each others' customers.

Research company Ovum has discovered that IT managers are put off by software companies that use "pushy" sales techniques and meaningless sales speak.

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, the company

Data centre managers are starting to worry if the proliferation of increasingly power-hungry servers isn't about to suck the electricity out of the U.K.'s National Grid. The U.K.'s Data Center Networking Group is to hold a discussion next week around whether the U.K. could sustain power for IT and ask what would happen if the grid went down.

IBM researcher Michael Osborne, whose job is research into secure ID cards, slated the U.K. government's ID cards plan on the grounds of cost, over-centralization, and being the wrong tool for the job.

A Virtualization Academy offering free virtualization advice will be opened in May by consultancy VirtualizeIT. The Vacademy will use a purpose-built virtualization test-bed to boost knowledge about virtualization, among the biggest and fastest-growing phenomena in enterprise computing today, and give businesses a tailored assessment of what virtualization could do for them.

If you doubted the dominance of IBM Corp.'s grip on the server market, doubt no more. Big Blue has maintained its market share lead in blade servers as well as the more traditional variety, according to a pair of market research reports just released.