US Patent and Trademark Office Grants Scalent Virtual Data Center Patent

September 29, 2009 -- The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued Infrastructure provisioning software provider Scalent Systems a patent for "a system and a method for implementing a virtual data center."

Unisys Provides Starbucks Data Center Services in China

July 30, 2009 -- Information technology provider Unisys Corporation has been awarded a two-year contract to provide data center outsourcing services to coffee giant Starbucks to support its continued expansion in China.

Unisys Launches Data Center Tools

January 24, 2007 -- Technology services and solutions company Unisys announced on Tuesday it has launched two new enterprise computing solutions that enable clients to align business and IT more closely and reduce IT management costs.

IBM Wins Texas Contract

December 1, 2006 -- IBM announced on Tuesday it has inked a seven-year data center services agreement with the Texas Department of Information Resources. IBM beat out rival Northrop Gunman to win a contract valued at $863 million.

Unisys Hosts Cathay Pacific Airways

May 15, 2006 -- IT services provider Unisys announced on Friday it has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Cathay Pacific Airways to host the airline's core business applications.

Opsware Expands Into Europe, Names VP

February 8, 2005 -- Data center automation software developer Opsware (opsware.com) announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its presence in Europe, opening offices in France and Germany ..

Altaworks Names Regional Sales Director

March 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Altaworks Corporation (altaworks.com), a developer of distributed application performance management software, announced Monday that it has named a veteran of venture-backed technology companies as its director of regional sales for New England.

Is Offshoring Hurting Web Hosting?

March 5, 2004 -- The pain of job loss and presidential politics have put offshore outsourcing front and center among IT industry issues. There may be debate over whether US companies have to hire globally to compete globally or whether they should be rewarded for keeping jobs at home and punished for shipping them away, but there is little disagreement that the hiring abroad shows no signs of slowing.

Rackspace Europe Receives Service Excellence Award

November 13, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Managed hosting provider Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe (rackspace.co.uk) said Thursday that it has been awarded the Learning Organization Award for service excellence. The award, sponsored by The Cranfield School of Management and Unisys, is given to UK companies in recognition of their outstanding customer service and employee relations.

WARP Appoints President and Interim CEO

August 19, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- WARP Technology Holdings, Inc. (warpsolutions.com), a provider of network and application acceleration technology solutions, appointed Malcolm Coster to the position of president and Interim CEO yesterday.

HP, Microsoft Set Transaction Benchmarks

April 25, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) and Microsoft (microsoft.com) yesterday announced the world?s fastest single-system TPC-C (OLTP) benchmark result of 658,277 transactions per second. Verified by an authorized auditor, the TPC-C benchmark is among the most complex online transaction processing benchmarks in the industry.

Unisys Delivers New Server: Reports

April 22, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, Unisys (unisys.com) this week will launch a new Wintel server that can scale up to 106 processors and run an enterprise?s entire operations from a single box.

2003 Summit to Showcase Blade Market

February 21, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Organizers of the Server Blade Summit 2003 (ServerBladeSummit.com), a conference and exhibition dedicated to the server blade technology segment, said this week that the event will explore why server blades are one of the few growing markets in the IT industry.

2003 Summit to Showcase Blade Market

February 21, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Organizers of the Server Blade Summit 2003 (ServerBladeSummit.com), a conference and exhibition dedicated to the server blade technology segment, said this week that the event will explore why server blades are one of the few growing markets in the IT industry.

Microsoft Anti-Unix Site Runs on FreeBSD, Apache

April 1, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A Web site launched as part of an anti-Unix marketing campaign Microsoft has embarked upon is running in a Unix environment.

IBM Launches Mainframe-Class eServer x440

March 14, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- IBM (ibm.com/eserver) announced yesterday itsmainframe-class Intel eServer system at CeBIT 2002.

Microsoft Introduces 64-Bit Computing

August 29, 2001 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Microsoft Corp. (microsoft.com) has

Burn All Gifs: An Interview With Don Marti

1999-12-27

An interview with Don Marti, webmaster for BurnAllGifs.org, about the Unisys LZW patent and software patents in general....