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IBM to Offer Zend Server as Core PHP Capability within IBM SmartCloud PaaS CUPERTINO, Calif., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zend, the PHP Company announced today that IBM has partnered with Zend to make enterprise-grade PHP support a core offering within IBM SmartCloud. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100809/LA47136LOGO) IBM SmartCloud Application Services is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a suite of cloud-based development tools, workload patterns,...
IBM to Form New Cloud Services Division ARMONK, N.Y., June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., the world's largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition will strengthen IBM's leadership position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. (Logo:...
Virtual assistants help deliver faster and more convenient response to citizen inquiries WARSAW, Poland, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will help eight municipal governments in Poland improve citizen services with the assistance of cloud-based virtual agents developed by InteliWISE, an IBM business partner. Available via web chat, the virtual agents will harness powerful analytics technologies to deliver fast, automated access to information on...
New AT&T Integration Enhances IBM MobileFirst Strategy for App Development ORLANDO, Fla., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AT&T (NYSE: T) today announced they are working together to help businesses develop more network-efficient mobile apps. The new integration of AT&T and IBM technology enables enterprises to conduct comprehensive testing and analysis of their apps' network and battery usage on mobile devices, and quickly make necessary changes; creating...
ARMONK, N.Y., June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software and resources to help organizations create, test and deliver mobile and cloud applications. These new initiatives expand the development capabilities of IBM's SmartCloud and IBM MobileFirst offerings. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) Mobile and cloud computing are powerful technology trends that have the potential to help businesses drive new revenue and transform the...
S4i Systems, Inc., a leading electronic document automation and disk space management software provider for IBM Power™ customers, announces today that Kaitlyn Jaffke has joined the team as Marketing and Sales Coordinator. (PRWEB) June 01, 2013 S4i Systems, Inc. (http://www.s4isystems.com), a leading electronic document automation and disk space management software provider for IBM Power™ customers, announces today that Kaitlyn Jaffke has joined the team as Marketing and Sales...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Coverity, Inc., the leader in development testing, today announced it will present at IBM Innovate 2013: The IBM Technical Summit in Orlando, Florida. What: "Breaking Down the Barriers Between Development and QA"When: Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 8:30 AM ETWhere: Innovate 2013, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel, Dolphin-Southern IIIWho: James Croall, Senior Product Manager for Coverity The presentation will explore the communication...
IBM MobileFirst and IBM SmartCloud Support Telco's Expansion into New Markets and Improve Workforce Productivity ARMONK, N.Y. and HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Vietnam Mobile Telecom Services Company (VMS), one of the country's leading telecom companies, today announced a collaboration to build an advanced, end-to-end mobile computing platform. The agreement that includes IBM MobileFirst, IBM SmartCloud and IBM PureSystems offerings will...
Military Grade Technology Now Available to Commercial Developers. Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 Cognitive Code, a technology company specializing in conversational Artificial Intelligence, is making plans to unveil its patented artificial intelligence (AI) technology to commercial developers, according to John Albert, COO of Cognitive Code. Profiled in Forbes as a technology that could “take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives,” SILVIA, the name of...
IBM Premier Partner Launches Intelligent Operations Center with Sustainable City, Citizen Health and Wellness Focus Houston, TX (PRWEB) May 30, 2013 Element Blue, an IBM Premier Partner and leading provider of IBM Smarter Planet solutions, has been selected to develop the Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) platform for Smarter Sustainable Dubuque, a unique public/private partnership between IBM Research and the City of Dubuque that seeks to make Dubuque one of the first “smarter”...
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...
