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MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Help/Systems, LLC, a world leader in systems management, security, and business intelligence software, announced the opening of a new office in London to support staff expansion and serve future growth as its European headquarters. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/CG58040LOGO) "We are very excited to see our customer base grow so rapidly outside the United States," said Jim Cassens, Managing Director of Help/Systems...
Backup and Protect EMC Documentum Without Any System Downtime Tempe, AZ (PRWEB) February 11, 2013 CYA Solutions Group of enChoice today announced CYA HOTBackup™ 3.0. This new release enhances interoperability between EMC Documentum® and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager® (TSM) in addition to supporting EMC’s Networker® and Symantec’s NetBackup® by automating hot, consistent backups without scripting for the Documentum platform. CYA HOTBackup 3.0 benefits include:...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Grand Rapids, Mich.-based software developer Blue Medora, a leader in helping companies extend the monitoring and management capabilities of leading systems management solutions Oracle and IBM, announced the release of a much-anticipated update to its Oracle Enterprise Manager plugin for VMware. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130109/DE39834LOGO) The plugin is the first of its kind, addressing the needs of the...
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that MoDe was named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, MoDe provides instant nano-credit for pre-paid mobile phone users across the African continent. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) Nearly 80 percent of mobile phone users in growth markets do not have access to traditional banking loans and credit. MoDe's innovative payment services ensure that...
The Development Shop announced that the website will offer marked downs on various IBM software and hardware solutions for small businesses and enterprise companies. Detroit, MI (PRWEB) February 08, 2013 The Development Shop, in celebration of its initial launch this week, is offering deals on a variety of IBM hardware and software solutions for small business, enterprise companies and individuals. In terms of software, the store has a variety of IBM software licenses, including service...
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM), WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today unveiled the first commercially developed Watson-based cognitive computing breakthroughs. These innovations stand alone to help transform the quality and speed of care delivered to patients through individualized, evidence based medicine. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130208/NY57025 )(Logo:...
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed the acquisition of StoredIQ, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) The acquisition advances IBM's efforts to help clients derive value from big data, respond more efficiently to litigation and regulations, and dispose of information in an automated way that has outlived its purpose. IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion...
MARKHAM, Ontario, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has been selected to continue supporting the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to operate Ontario's Meter Data Management and Repository (MDM/R) system with new computing infrastructure and an updated operating environment. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) The 5-year $68.5 million (Cdn) contract was awarded following a competitive procurement process and...
ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Making it easier for organizations to quickly adopt and deploy big data and cloud computing solutions, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced major advances to its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Now, organizations challenged by limited IT skills and resources can quickly comb through massive volumes of data and uncover critical trends that can dramatically...
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today accelerated its strategy to make big data and cloud computing a reality for businesses of all sizes with new Power Systems and Storage Systems that provide deep insights into big data, simplify data storage in the cloud, and can reduce costs through consolidation. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/NY54327)(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) The announcement was made today...
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...
