ARMONK, NY - January 30, 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server, new software that allows businesses to centrally manage customer, product, and account data for use enterprise-wide.

Master data is the information upon which organizations’ operations and critical business decisions are based. Many businesses today are faced with master data that is distributed across multiple front and back-office systems and cannot be shared enterprise-wide. This problem, which costs businesses millions of dollars in missed revenues and operational inefficiencies, is driving companies to seek more flexibility in how they maintain and use master data as a means of competing and capitalizing on emerging business opportunities.

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LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL. - January 21, 2008: Today, before 7,000 customers and partners at the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced plans to deliver their first joint software product codenamed “Atlantic” that will integrate IBM Lotus Notes software with SAP Business Suite. The combined efforts to create “Atlantic” will result in a new style of applications that present information and data in the context of users familiar with the Lotus Notes desktop. This will make it easier for users to do their jobs and greatly enhance the return on investment that companies have made in their SAP applications.

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ARMONK, NY - 21 Nov 2007: The world’s most powerful line of supercomputers — IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene family - is by far the most energy-efficient, according to a new ranking of the TOP500 computers.

The inaugural Green500 list ranks by energy efficiency the machines that make the overall TOP500 list of the world’s fastest computers. The new Green500 list shows IBM Blue Gene supercomputers capturing 26 of the top 27 spots.

The Green500 list is overseen by two professors at Virginia Tech, Kirk Cameron and Wu Feng. “The Green500 List is intended to serve as a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and as a complementary view to the Top500 List,” Feng said in a press release.

IBM supercomputers also led on the recently-released TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list, which ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers. According to the TOP500 list, the IBM Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the world’s fastest supercomputer, capable of delivering a sustained performance of 478 trillion calculations per second (478 “teraflops”). IBM also placed a total of 232 supercomputers on the list, the most of any vendor.

ARMONK, NY - 19 Nov 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is dramatically enhancing its BladeCenter portfolio by bringing IBM’s best technology to bear to make blade solutions more open and easy to use. These innovations range from proven microprocessors and operating systems to a new, open I/O virtualization solution.

IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager provides I/O virtualization and can help cut cost and complexity for clients through its open architecture. IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager supports the complete range of Ethernet and Fibre Channel technologies from vendors like Blade Network Technologies, Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, NetXen and QLogic unlike competitive offerings that lock clients into proprietary, costly switches.

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ARMONK, NY - 29 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today new software and services to help ensure clients’ success in creating a healthy IT environment based on a service oriented architecture (SOA).

Dubbed the “IBM SOA Healthcheck,” these new IBM services and software will help clients with SOA health issues resulting from performance issues, which could be the result of partnering with inexperienced or proprietary information technology (IT) vendors. The healthchecks cover six common areas that can impact the success of an SOA strategy, including application reuse, governance, security, middleware, and workload and service management.

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ARMONK, NY and MELVILLE, NY - October 24, 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that the company recently shipped its 1,000th POWER6™ processor-based System p™ 570 server, with Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) being the recipient.

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BOEBLINGEN, GERMANY - 19 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the z/VSE mainframe operating system is being updated to help address customer needs for scalability, security and integration. z/VSE V4.2 is designed to support growing mainframe applications and drive stronger investment protection.

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LAS VEGAS, IBM Information on Demand Conference - 15 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its IBM Information Server software platform has now been extended to bring new scalability, information consistency and performance to IBM System z customers, providing new flexibility to perform information integration directly on the mainframe.

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ARMONK, NY - 11 Oct 2007: In an extension of the company’s Project Big Green, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched a program that allows mainframe customers to monitor their systems’ precise energy consumption in real-time.

IBM will also begin publishing typical energy consumption data for the IBM System z9 mainframe. The data is derived from actual field measurements of approximately 1,000 customer machines, determining average watts/hour consumed which can be used to calculate watts per unit — similar to automobile miles per gallon estimates and appliance kilowatt per year ratings.

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Mountain View, Calif. & Armonk, N.Y. - 08 Oct 2007: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an initiative to promote new software development methods which will help students and researchers address the challenges of internet-scale applications in the future.

The goal of this initiative is to improve computer science students’ knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. IBM and Google are teaming up to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons. With their combined resources, the companies hope to lower the financial and logistical barriers for the academic community to explore this emerging model of computing.

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