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Cloud computing, Big Data and mobile technologies can help transform Accra into a smarter city - improving lives and bolstering the West African hub's continued rise to prosperity ACCRA, Ghana, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the launch of a report entitled "A Vision for Smarter Growth: an IBM Smarter Cities Report on Accra, Ghana" that highlights how the rapidly emerging West African city should turn to technology to transform its key urban systems....
European business services provider to improve agility and time-to-market HELSINKI, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it has signed a seven-year cloud computing agreement with Itella, a leading provider of business services in Europe and Russia, to streamline its business operations and improve flexibility and time-to-market. The modern cloud-based service delivery platform and use of IBM's global industry assets will enable and expedite Itella's...
MALVERN, Pa., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Micro Strategies Inc. of Denville and Rockaway, NJ and Malvern, PA is pleased to be a Gold Sponsor for the Villanova Tech Expo on April 11, 2013. Micro Strategies, the recipient of IBM's Top Business Partner Choice Award for 2013, along with being a Gold Sponsor at Villanova, will also be hosting Texas Memory, Softmart and SMART as their booth business partners. In addition to an overview of new technologies such as Voice Recording in the...
Data analytics and new delivery models yield millions in savings ARMONK, N.Y., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that it is helping the state of Oklahoma save $15 million over the next five years and ultimately improve services to state residents. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) As governments institute structural changes in the way agencies measure performance and deliver services, data analytics and new delivery models...
End-to-End Platform Enables Easy Creation of Modern Mobile and Web Apps by IBM i Clients AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Today, at the COMMON 2013 annual meeting and exposition in Austin, Texas, Zend is announcing the latest version of Zend Server for IBM i. Zend Server 6 enables enterprises with IBM i systems to create, publish and manage mobile applications on their IBM i system, while leveraging the value of existing back-end programs, applications and business...
Recent Primeur partnership, upcoming EEI 6.4 release extend customer integration capabilities through legacy platform, applications POTTSVILLE, Pa., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- EXTOL International, a leading provider of e-business integration software and services, will discuss its plans for continued support of the IBM i Series platform during the IBM COMMON Users Conference, being held April 7-10 in Austin, Texas. The meeting, billed as the "largest gathering of the Power Systems...
PETERBOROUGH, England, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New web based interface simplifies audit process for security compliance teams Halcyon Software, the global leader in systems management software, has today announced an update to Authority Swapper, the access control tool for the IBM i. Authority Swapper allows IT managers to grant users different levels of authority, for temporary periods, to carry out specific tasks. It provides a visible forensic trace of user activity, which...
PRAGUE, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBA Group - http://www.ibagroupit.com, an alliance of IT companies with more than 2,500 people, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. A series of events will be held in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, the Russian Federation, and Kazakhstan. The celebration will begin in April in Minsk, the birthplace of IBA Group. The company's traditions go back to the 1960s. Those were the days when the IT industry of Belarus began...
Nostromo to bridge the gap between bench and practice WARSAW, Poland, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene/Q, the most powerful single architecture supercomputer in Poland, has been chosen by The Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling, University of Warsaw (ICM) of Poland to support the country's largest biomedical and biotechnological research initiative called, "Centre for Pre-clinical Research and Technology (CePT)." More than...
European Data Center Will Give Businesses Opportunity to Follow Customers such as Shanks that are Benefiting from Cloud Based Social Business Solutions Today ARMONK, N.Y., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will be extending its industry leadership with the opening of a European-based IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center. The move aims to help business leaders, such as chief information officers (CIO), chief marketing officers (CMO), and...
Latest IBM Reference Libraries
A direct access storage device, or DASD, is a secondary storage device in mainframe computers that has low access time for all of its capacity. The term DASD was introduced by IBM to describe disk drives, magnetic drums, and data cells. The direct access capability of those devices was quite different than that of sequential access used in tape drives because it required a substantially long time to access a distant point in a medium. IBM computers access devices through channels, which are...
A control store is the element of a CPUs control unit that stores the CPU's micro program and is usually accessed by a micro sequencer. A control store is usually executed as a diode-selection of read-only memory. This tradition dates back to 1947 when the program timing matrix on the MIT Whirlwind was initially introduced. The earliest models of IBM mainframe had read-only control store; however, the System/370 and successor models were made and loaded their micro programs from floppy disks...
