Dan Neel

Supercomputing leader IBM Corp. on Friday announced that it has begun assembling a colossal supercomputer called Blue Sky for The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, Colorado.

There is a time and a season for printer announcements and that time is now, according to analyst firm International Data Corp. A high-speed output of both colour and monochrome printer news has recently flooded the printer market, and incentives to buy have ranged from ultra-low prices to free steaks.

Dominant planets in the storage galaxy aligned when a partnership deal saw EMC and Dell Computer lock orbits and the gravitational pull intensify between storage allies Hitachi and Sun Microsystems.

Advanced storage management techniques and improved disaster recovery will be hot topics at next week's Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall 2001, a conference attracting a veritable who's who of storage vendors.

Fulfilling another component of the company's iForce Initiative, Sun Microsystems Inc. next Tuesday will bring its long-awaited FTR (Floor Tile Ready) program to market, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.

Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell by nearly half over the course of the last year, according to a report released Monday by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

The high-end server market is expected to heat up significantly next Tuesday as officials for Sun Microsystems Inc. unveil the company's much-anticipated Starcat server at a launch event in New York.

In an olive branch gesture to middle-market storage customers, EMC Corp. on Monday rolled out three new Symmetrix storage servers priced within reach of mid-tier customers.