Global vendor strategies - 28/06/06

Cisco and ATT are jointly investing $15.5m in the Internet video provider Akimbo Systems.

IBM launches new blade servers (BladeCenter) featuring far less consumption (-163%) and enhanced performance (+90%). Big Blue also introduced four new Xtended Design Architecture-based xSystem. Availability in August.

Intel offloads its communications and application processor business to Marvell Technology for $600m.