Ibm Now No. 2 In World Tech Value

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. passed Microsoft Corp. to become the world’s second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from the personal computer.

IBM Now No. 2 in World Tech Value

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Ibm Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

The 120 petabyte drive could enable detailed simulations of real-world phenomena or store 24 billion MP3s. It is made of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together.

IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

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Biggest Data Drive Ever Built By Ibm Can Back Up 60 Copies Of Wayback Machine

A 120 petabyte drive is being built by researchers at IBM's Almaden, California, R&D lab. It will be the largest data repository ever built, and will comprise 200,000 hard disk drives strung together.

The giant data container is expected to store around one trillion files and should provide the space needed to allow more powerful simulations of complex systems, like those used to model weather and climate.

A 120 petabyte drive could hold 24 billion typical five-megabyte MP3 files or comfortably swallow 60 copies of the biggest backup of the Web, the 150 billion pages that make up the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.

More: Technology Review (via Cliff Pickover).

Biggest data drive ever built by IBM can back up 60 copies of Wayback Machine

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Technology Takeovers May Pick Up as IBM, HP Push Into the Cloud

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Technology companies that fueled more than $100 billion in acquisitions last year are likely to spend more in 2011 in a race to harness surging demand for cloud computing and security services.

Technology Takeovers May Pick Up as IBM, HP Push Into the Cloud

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