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2002

Among the company's 2002 product introductions are: in February, workstations offering up to 

2.5 times faster graphics performance than Sun's fastest workstation. The new offerings include 

the IntelliStation POWER 265 UNIX workstation and the IntelliStation Pro Series (E Pro 6204 

and 6214, and M Pro 6229 and 6850). ..... and, in November, the mid range IntelliStation M Pro  

6219, designed for the ultimate in graphics performance; the high end IntelliStation Z Pro 6221, 

in a new compact minitower optimized for multitasking and multithreaded applications; and the 

IntelliStation 

POWER

 p630 for 3D visualization in 

MCAD

/

CAE

, geophysical and scientific 

analysis. Weta Digital, Ltd., says in May it will move a significant proportion of production 

work related to  The Lord Of The Rings  film trilogy onto more than 150 

IBM

 Intellistation 

6580 

WEA

 workstations running Linux. 

IBM

 introduces in June, the 

IBM

 NetVista A30 and A30p desktop PCs for small businesses, and 

the NetVista M42, with the fastest technology available in a desktop from 

IBM

; and, in October, 

the 

IBM

 NetVista S42, one of its smallest yet most functional desktops.  

IBM

 announces  ThinkVantage Technologies,  a set of 

PC

 solutions designed to help customers 

drive down 

IT

 support costs, such as 

IBM

 RapidRestore 

PC

, a software tool preloaded on 

IBM

PCs that can restore previously saved data and applications after a software failure.  

The company's 2002 ThinkPad notebook introductions include the A31p, 

IBM

's first mobile 

computer designed to meet the specific, high performance needs of workstations. ..... the T30, a 

thin and light mobile computing powerhouse with UltraNav, a revolutionary, programmable 

multi pointing system that allows users to quickly and easily choose the way they want to work. 

..... the R32 notebook for the small and medium business and education markets. ..... and the X30 

notebook, a 3.6 pound ultraportable computer that can stretch battery life to eight hours.  

IBM

 also launches the 

IBM

 SurePOS 300 Series point of sale (

POS

) system, as well as new 

models of the 

IBM

 SureOne, 

IBM

 SurePOS 600 Series and 

IBM

 SurePOS 500 Series.  

In storage products activities in 2002: 

IBM

 debuts the Travelstar 

GNX

 hard disk drive in 

February ..... in May, 

IBM

 supports the introduction of  Bluefin,  a new technology that is 

expected to provide an industry wide management solution for interoperable storage area 

networks. ..... the following month, the company ships its 10,000th 

IBM

 TotalStorage Enterprise 

Storage Server ( Shark ), to Commerzbank, a leading international investment and banking 

institution based in Frankfurt, Germany. ..... in July, the company introduces: the 

IBM

TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3590 Model H, that stores up to 50 percent more information 

than the previous model; the Ultrastar 146Z10, an industrial strength server hard disk drive for 

use in the most intensive business environments (it is the first 10,000 rpm hard drive of its 

generation to ship in volume, with a top capacity of 146 gigabytes); the 

IBM

 TotalStorage 

Enterprise Storage Server ( Shark ) Model 800 powered by 

IBM

's copper microchips and 

industry's first 2 Gigabit per second Fibre/

FICON

 data transfer rates; and the 

IBM

 TotalStorage 

Network Attached Storage 100, a thin self managing, self healing appliance for e mail archiving, 

server consolidation, storage backup or archiving paper documents. ..... in September, the 

company debuts the 

IBM

 Deskstar 180GXP, the world's fastest desktop hard disk drive. ..... in 

November, 

IBM

 launches the Travelstar 80GN, the world's highest capacity mobile hard disk  

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