Patrick Thibodeau

Should IT managers control all aspects of a company

The newly unified product line will be based on the company's Power6 processors and will support the operating system from the System i as well as Linux and Big Blue's AIX variant of Unix

Private contract employees working at the U.S. Department of State have repeatedly accessed U.S. Senator Barack Obama's passport records over the past three months -- a breach flagged by the State Department's in-house computer system but subsequently downplayed by the supervisors of the offices in which the breaches occurred.

Big Blue has announced System z10, which costs $1 million, has a 4.4 GHz quad-core processor and data rates more than twice as fast as the z9. A major selling point is its small size, which saves companies the expense of expanding their data centres.

Zhengyu Lui, who was awarded 420,000 hours of processing time by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is modelling climate changes dating back 21,000 years. The goal is to predict an abrupt event

The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration mandate a three-tiered rating system developed by the Green Electronics Council that will affect PC and monitor purchases

SPEC releases a test suite in partnership with Intel and AMD that is designed to let server buyers do some comparison shopping on the basis of power consumption

AMD last month said it had received an investment of US$622 million from a unit of Mubadala Development Co., an investment firm that is based in the UAE's capital of Abu Dhabi