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LUGANO, Switzerland and ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a Shared University Research (SUR) award in the form of a modern high-end server to the University of Lugano, Switzerland, to advance the design of future computer systems and applications for multi-core processors. The powerful new computer, an IBM Power 755, will be used to investigate how future computer systems can best be optimized as part of a three-year research collaboration with IBM...

SYDNEY, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Bunnings, the leading home improvement and outdoor living retailer in Australia and New Zealand, has selected POWER7 technology to provide a robust environment to support plans for rapid business growth across the region. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Located in Perth, the new system will support Bunnings' 281 locations across...

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the IBM Power® 795 achieved the highest result ever published on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark with a result of 70,032 SAP SD benchmark users.(1) The 128-core Power 795 handled 79 percent more users than a 256-core Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (Oracle's largest system)(2), and 75 percent more users than the 128-core Oracle parallel result published in September...

ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of powerful entry-level systems that provide affordable, easy to manage infrastructure solutions that are optimized for today's emerging workloads, including IT consolidation, real-time analytics, mobile applications, information management and compliance solutions. Based on IBM's industry leading POWER7 processor, the new servers address the demanding requirements that midsize firms have for reliable,...

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) (Logo:...

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new POWER7® systems designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging applications, including a high-end system that offers markedly better energy efficiency than competitive systems from HP and Oracle. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) IBM also announced a pair of developments that illustrate the company's...

NEW YORK, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- -Industry first: IBM mainframe governance and management benefits extended to select POWER7, System x environments(1) -New technology boosts complex analytics performance up to 10X,(2) delivering insight from business data in minutes versus hours -zEnterprise is the most powerful, scalable mainframe server ever - up to 60% faster than System z10(3) for new workloads -Most energy efficient mainframe--more than 100,000 virtualized servers can be...

ARMONK, N.Y., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced three financial services customers in growth markets have selected IBM Power Systems to run real-time analytics on rapidly growing market data, gain insight into emerging business trends and manage the expanding needs of their businesses. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO) Two of the banks -- National TRUST Bank of Russia and...

MANCHESTER, England, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the official opening of a new systems software development laboratory in Manchester. With a focus on IBM Power Systems, the engineers in the Lab develop optimization, security, and virtualization software to help clients manage emerging workloads designed to reduce data center costs. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO ) Today's announcement is the latest in a series of major...

WARSAW, Poland, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Agora SA, one of Poland's largest media companies operating across print, Internet, radio and outdoor advertising channels, has acquired four of IBM's new POWER7 systems to reduce its data center costs and provide better service to its customers by managing millions of data-intensive transactions across its media channels and analyzing that data in real time. (Logo:...