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In this photo taken by Feature Photo Service for IBM: Rodney Adkins, senior vice president in charge of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, stands beside one of IBM’s new PureSystems at a company lab in Research Triangle Park, NC. PureSystems is the result of a $2 billion development effort at IBM to create a new category of business computing that combines server, storage and networking resources along with an array of built-in software patterns and business processes into one highly automated and simple-to-manage machine. (Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM)
In this photo taken by Feature Photo Service for IBM: Rodney Adkins, senior vice president in charge of IBM’s Systems and Technology Group, stands beside one of IBM’s new PureSystems at a company lab in Research Triangle Park, NC. PureSystems is the result of a $2 billion development effort at IBM to create a new category of business computing that combines server, storage and networking resources along with an array of built-in software patterns and business processes into one highly automated and simple-to-manage machine. (Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM)The conference room went dark at Chattanooga-based InfoSystems.
A handful of local tech executives waited quietly as the clock ticked closer to IBM’s big reveal.
In mainstream technology news, consumers focused on Apple’s price-fixing snafu and Facebook’s Instagram purchase.
But IT geeks around the world instead were tuned into IBM’s streaming announcement of a new server design, which the company says will change corporate computing in a big way.
“With traditional computing, you have to put the servers and storage together yourself and make it work,” said Clay Hales, president and CEO of InfoSystems, which sells and installs IBM equipment. “This is more like an appliance.”