Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 05:56:42 +0000 (CUT) From: IBM Connect Subject: IBM Connect - Australia Welcome to the February edition of IBM Connect, the first for the new year. This month also heralds the end of the Australian Open 2004. Here you can read how IBM, the official technology supplier for the event, helped turn a demanding game into an on demand business. You’ll also find new IT solutions and special offers to kick-start the year. IBM Connect would like to thank everyone who entered our December competition and congratulate the winner, Steven Clarke from NSW, who is now the proud owner of the ThinkPad R40 notebook and all-in-one Epson Stylus printer. Kind regards, THE EDITOR. ------------------------------------------------------------ News briefs and headlines ------------------------------------------------------------ Important: Your action is required to continue your subscription. We are currently reviewing our database and our records indicate that you have not updated your profile in the past 6 months. To confirm that you wish to continue your subscription to IBM Connect, please update your interest areas. We would like to continue being able to provide you information relevant to your interest areas, but unfortunately, if you have not updated your interest areas by the end of April, your subscription to IBM Connect will stop. Click here to update your interest areas. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040201 IBM served. The Australian Open scored. Millions of fans were glued to the Australian Open over the past 2 weeks. But they were watching more than tennis. They were witnessing a living, breathing, hard-hitting example of a complete e-business on demand solution. As the official technology supplier and strategic partner, IBM delivered a flexible, cross-platform infrastructure that not only distributed data in real time to fans, media, players and officials around the world but also scaled up to handle over 70 times regular traffic - with more than 11 million visits made to the official web site. To read how IBM served on demand solutions, click here. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040205 IBM's record patent run now into its second decade. The US Patent and Trademark Office recently announced that in 2003 IBM again set a record for generating the most patents in a single year. The tally of 3,415 patents extends IBM's run as the world's most innovative company to eleven consecutive years. In fact, over the past four years IBM has received more than 13,000 US patents, exceeding the combined totals of Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, EMC, Oracle, Accenture and EDS. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040206 ------------------------------------------------------------ Business Centre news ------------------------------------------------------------ Business class PCs at economy prices. Every ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCentre desktop in the IBM Express program gives you the advantages of big thinking at a small price. Each has been pre-configured to suit small business needs with applications and programs that are easy to use and manage, so you can simplify complex tasks. And because you don't have a big IT department, IBM gives you access to 24-hour online service and support for all your IBM PCs. For a limited time only, get a free bag with selected ThinkPad notebooks. For more information, click here. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040203 ------------------------------------------------------------ Special offers ------------------------------------------------------------ FREE Bag with selected IBM ThinkPad notebooks. Prices start from just $2,799. For a limited time only, get your free bag with selected IBM ThinkPad notebooks - ranging from a lightweight, multi-media notebook to selected G Series notebooks - powerful desktop alternatives. Hurry, offer ends 29 February 2004, click here. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040202 IBM Connect special - 50% off selected IBM Virtual Campus courses. Selected IT education courses are available to IBM Connect subscribers for a 50% discount over summer. Simply enter the unique PIN (112427) when purchasing a course from the program. Be quick, you only have until 29 February 2004 to take advantage of this rare offer. Click here and follow the Virtual Campus Summer Special link. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040217 ------------------------------------------------------------ What's new on ibm.com? ------------------------------------------------------------ Make the most of your IT investments: Go back to school. By integrating technical training with your IT solution, you can help enhance the performance of your employees and significantly increase your return on investment. IBM IT Education Services' comprehensive curricula provides technical, professional and in-depth certification training solutions. These are offered via a variety of flexible delivery alternatives designed to fit your budget, timing and learning preferences. Check our January to June 2004 Training Schedule now. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040219 ------------------------------------------------------------ Case studies ------------------------------------------------------------ The case of faster legal processes and rapid ROI. Australian legal firm, Ebsworth & Ebsworth, needed to speed up communications between its lawyers and clients. To do this, they needed to publish and manage content over an intranet, a corporate web site and client extranets. Thanks to a combination of IBM eServer iSeries and IBM Lotus Workplace Web Content Management software, the company was able to accelerate the speed of doing business, increase responsiveness to clients and realise an exceptional return on investment. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040210 ------------------------------------------------------------ Solution briefs ------------------------------------------------------------ Linux Virtual Services Express has arrived. Meet the on demand needs of your organisation with three new hosting offerings from IBM's e-business Hosting Services team. Whether you need to publish on the internet, create and run a dynamic web site, or have a highly secure and flexible e-business solution to support transactions over the web, Linux Virtual Services Express has reliable and scalable solutions for you. Best of all, you pay only for the server, network and disk capacity you use, from $1,200 per month. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040207 Server and storage offers, expressly for you. Small and medium sized companies facing challenges such as limited IT staff, fewer resources, and smaller budgets can now take advantage of a range of Express Offerings including server and storage solutions designed specifically for them. These offerings provide robust capabilities, are easy to install and manage, and from $1,499, are competitively priced. To find the right hardware configuration and protect your investments with products that are easily scalable to grow with your business, click here. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040209 Can you afford to miss the latest innovations from xSeries & BladeCenter? IBM unveils two new servers. The IBM eServer xSeries 365 powered by the latest Intel Xeon MP processors is a 4-way system that offers high-availability, massive internal storage capacity and superior performance. The exclusive rack-dense 3U design optimises space-constrained environments. The IBM eServer BladeCenter HS40 is designed to be the most powerful and flexible 4-way server of its kind. It's an ultra-slim, Intel Xeon MP processor-based blade server offering unprecedented, on-demand processing power for consolidation-minded businesses. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040212 IBM enhances iSeries with over 300 new software solutions. Adding to its arsenal of solutions running on the IBM eServer iSeries, more than 300 new Linux and WebSphere solutions have been successfully ported to the iSeries platform over the last year. In response to demand from server customers around the world, the new solutions were formulated to help mid-sized businesses modernise their IT environment and leverage the sizeable investments that have been made in the iSeries platform. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040213 ------------------------------------------------------------ Products and specifications ------------------------------------------------------------ Communicate with colour at an affordable price. Step up to colour laser printing with confidence now with the new Infoprint Color 1354. Improve the appearance of documents, including brochures, flyers and reports while you retain the ability to print monochrome. From just $4,665, the affordable, reliable Infoprint Colour 1354 can support workgroups with flexible networking options and job handling. Add the IBM M30 Multifunction Print Option for expanded functionality. http://www.ibm.com/isource/cgi-bin/goto?on=AUST040204 IBM increases lead in global server market. IBM continued to gain revenue and increase shipments for servers worldwide, according to Gartner Dataquest Quarterly Statistics, Q3 2003. This independent researcher revealed that IBM now commands 32% of the global server market increasing revenue by 4.7% over 2002. IBM was the fastest growing UNIX vendor, increasing revenue by 5% and gaining 2.2 points of market share. 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