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The US Air Force is using Web 2.0 technologies to better support its missions despite wariness about security, a civilian technology official of the service said last week.

IBM is calling its new System z10 mainframe a "commercial supercomputer" and hoping that the machine can capture some geek mindshare via features such as a quad-core processor that runs at a clock speed 2.6 times faster than the chips in IBM's z9 model could manage.

IBM is bundling several of its technologies to help corporate data centers run large-scale Web applications in a "cloud computing" model that's similar to the way major Internet players like Google operate.

Scammers hoping to sell high-priced subscriptions for a now-defunct Microsoft programming magazine may have picked the wrong audience to try to rip off.

IBM unveiled its System z9 mainframe, the first in a new generation of machines focused on easing security and systems management, company executives said Tuesday.

For the past few years, traditional industry leaders have been trashed by little start-ups headed by lightning-quick wunderkinds. Corporations saddled down with bureaucracy can't keep pace with today's market, the freewheeling New Economy players snickered as their market valuations soared.

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The promise of client/server computing was to make massive, monolithic data centers obsolete. Unfortunately, as companies distributed workgroup servers - and the management of them - across the organization, they uncovered a pent-up need for both computing power and storage capacity far beyond what anyone had envisioned for small to midrange servers to handle. After a dramatic increase in the number of servers and the corresponding management workload, many enterprises are in the process of reclaiming server management as a centrally administered function. Some have even moved the servers to a central location, but most use network-based tools to remotely administer the many servers.

An insurance company is using a hosted Web service to keep a tight rein on legal costs and get the best performance out of the law firms it hires.

IBM need not fear that its NUMA customers will run to the battlements shouting "Remember Sequent!" in rebellion.

TRYING TO SUSTAIN its year-long momentum in the supercomputing market, IBM last week announced what it believes is the industry's first supercomputer powered by copper-chip technology.