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			<title>IBM gets ready to push more UK and Irish bods overboard</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/ibm-gets-ready-to-push-more-uk-and-irish-bods-overboard</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Big Blue set to become Somewhat Smaller Blue Exclusive  IBM has started a 45-day consultation on letting up to 270 people go from its UK and Ireland operations.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:30:14 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM polishing axe, eyeing headcount in Blighty and Ireland again</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/ibm-polishing-axe-eyeing-headcount-in-blighty-and-ireland-again</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Big Blue set to become Somewhat Smaller Blue Exclusive  IBM has started a 45-day consultation on letting up to 270 people go from its UK and Ireland operations.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:16 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>New Big Blue UK, Ireland exec to give kiss o&#039; life to server sales</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/new-big-blue-uk-ireland-exec-to-give-kiss-o-life-to-server-sales</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Q1 revenue collapsed by 40+ per cent, claim sources It&#039;s all change in the upper echelons of IBM&#039;s UK and Ireland Systems Technology Group: its vice-president Shaun Coulson has handed control of the unit to Tosca Colangeli amid channel talk of collapsing server sales.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:13 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>Whiptail CEO: Big Blue&#039;s flashy BEELLION doesn&#039;t faze us</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/whiptail-ceo-big-blues-flashy-beellion-doesnt-faze-us</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Cannibalising your own lines? Not for us Interview  Undaunted by IBM&#039;s billion dollar investment in flash, all-flash array startup Whiptail is banking on new investor SanDisk, says Whiptail CEO Dan Crain.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:15:14 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM to push Linux apps on Power iron in China, then elsewhere</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/ibm-to-push-linux-apps-on-power-iron-in-china-then-elsewhere</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If you want to peddle boxes, you have to sell the ISVs first IBM is opening a Power Systems Linux Center in Beijing, China, in the hopes of getting more local ISVs interested in its Power Systems iron and luring them away from x86-based systems. With the Power Systems business taking it on the chin in IBM&#039;s first quarter – revenues fell 32 per cent compared to a year ago – you can bet that Big Blue is trying to light a fire under its Linux-on-Power efforts.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:15:13 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>ScaleMP: Use RAM plus vSMP, not flash, to boost server performance</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/scalemp-use-ram-plus-vsmp-not-flash-to-boost-server-performance</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Partners with Big Blue, chases SGI UV2 shared memory systems There are hypervisors that chop a single server into virtual bits, and other hypervisors that take multiple servers and make them look like one big virtual one. ScaleMP&#039;s vSMP hypervisor is the latter kind, and can be used to create a shared memory x86-based system that runs Linux that would normally require special processors and chipsets. And a much higher price tag.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:45:13 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>Reg boffins: Help us answer this Big Blue RAID data recovery poser</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/reg-boffins-help-us-answer-this-big-blue-raid-data-recovery-poser</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not just the disks that have failed IBM&#039;s research department have released a research paper on RAID 5 that has intrigued and baffled our correspondent in equal measure.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:30:12 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM considers System X surgery: Will it ruin its sexy HPC figure?</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/ibm-considers-system-x-surgery-will-it-ruin-its-sexy-hpc-figure</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A full X-ectomomy might, a partial could be OK HPC blog  The increasing amount of speculation over IBM&#039;s potential unloading of all or part of its System x (x86-based servers) business onto Lenovo has high performance computing (HPC) players wondering about the implications for the sector. What would be the eventual impact on IBM, and the HPC market in general, if Big Blue were to dump the x86 end of its system business?…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:45:11 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/report-ibm-lenovo-x86-server-deal-hits-the-skids</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Or, maybe the Great Wall of China Only late last week, the scuttlebutt was that IBM and Lenovo Group were moving along at a rapid pace so Big Blue could offload all or part of its System x x86 server business to the Chinese builder. Now, the latest word is that the deal has stalled as the two companies are haggling about the price.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 23:45:11 BST</pubDate>
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			<title>Atoms star in ball-bothering boffins&#039; Big Blue movie</title>
			<link>http://news.icc4services.co.uk/news/atoms-star-in-ballbothering-boffins-big-blue-movie</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Bantam blockbuster boy bewilders Reg bloke Vid  IBM Research has proved its worth by moving atoms across a screen to create the world&#039;s smallest movie. Big Blue has gone much better with its atomic animation A Boy and His Atom.…]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:15:11 BST</pubDate>
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