IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that clients from a range of industries across the globe have chosen IBM mainframes this year to run the world's highly secure and most sophisticated business transactions. Clients selected IBM mainframes because of their distinct advantages over competitive offerings. For example, a single IBM System z10 mainframe is equal to nearly 1500 x86 servers, uses up to 85% less floor space and up to 85% less energy.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and International Broadband Electric Communications, Inc. (IBEC) today announced the signing of a $9.6 million agreement to have IBM install Broadband over Power Line (BPL) networks at electric cooperatives throughout the eastern US. IBEC will focus on providing broadband services to underserved residents in rural America.

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IBM plans to help free small- and medium-sized businesses from the headaches, limitations and costs of current information technology (IT) maintenance with a new appliance — called IBM Lotus Foundations Start — that offers customers an easy way to collaborate, as well as the option to reliably run Microsoft Windows on a virtual machine with VMware technology. The new plug-and-play appliance combines software and hardware and is designed to allow employees to begin working together within one hour of initially booting up.

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With increased government and consumer pressures on companies to provide higher levels of identity assurance, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced technology that helps customers better control identity and access management in order to build trust and confidence in the critical systems running their businesses.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that TAM Airlines (BOVESPA: TAMM4) (NYSE: TAM) has signed a contract with IBM for the management of its service desk. The solution includes installation, help desk and field support of TAM's information technology (IT) infrastructure.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MITAS, one of Europe's largest tire manufacturing companies, today announced an agreement under which IBM will create a new enterprise integration platform based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for MITAS.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Sapa have signed an extension to an existing seven year services contract.

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A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) video podcast, IBM and the Future of Baseball, explores how sabermetrics — the analysis of statistics — is impacting the performance of professional sports teams. Hosted by Tim Washer, Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, and Bill Pulleyblank from IBM's Center for Business Optimization, discuss how this science also helps businesses improve their competitive edge.

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Cheminova, the largest Danish manufacturer of fine chemicals mainly for the plant production industry, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an agreement under which IBM will implement a global SAP solution and ERP transformation project for Cheminova — Cheminova's SAP Global One Program.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has been awarded a technology and services contract by the Department of Homeland Security for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency. Under terms of the agreement, IBM will work with USCIS to move the agency to a new centralized and consolidated electronic environment that will enable faster, more efficient and accurate immigration benefits determination and processing.

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