WUXI, CHINA and ARMONK, NY - 01 Feb 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will establish the first Cloud Computing Center for software companies in China, which will be situated at the new Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park in Wuxi, China.

The center will offer emerging Chinese software companies the ability to tap into a virtual computing environment to support their development activities. It will be established through an agreement signed today between IBM and Wuxi Tai Lake Industry Investment and Development Company Limited.

IBM will work with Wuxi Tai Lake Industry Investment and Development Company Limited; the Wuxi municipal government; and its business partners to build the China Cloud Computing Center, which will be a shared facility providing each software company in the park with its own virtualized computing resource. For example, a company will be able to use the allocated resource for designing, developing and testing its software products. Such virtual environments can replace the traditional data center model, in which each company owns and manages its own hardware and software.

Companies in the park will be able to access these common services provided by the center at any time -- just as they use utilities and other shared services. The technologies being offered to the community include IBM Rational software development tools, WebSphere Application Server software and DB2 database software running on IBM System x, System p and BladeCenter servers. IBM Tivoli systems management software will manage the cloud computing environment.

"Being one of the model zones to offer outsourcing services in China, the city of Wuxi is committed to providing companies in our park with the environment and tools that are needed for rapid growth," said Mr. Zhu Weiping, Party Secretary of Bin Hu District, Wuxi Municipal Government. "We are proud to be the first in the world to offer the power of cloud computing to companies in Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park."

Wuxi is classified as an investment zone by the Chinese government and has been named a "National Model City of Science and Technology Advancement" for five consecutive years.

"Cloud computing is helping to foster the growth of new software companies in China," said Steve Mills, Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group. "Like many new software companies seeking growth opportunities both locally and abroad, these Chinese software companies will rely on technical infrastructures built on open standards and delivered as a service. This open approach to computing will help them deliver innovation and pursue global market opportunities."

The Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park will be home to dozens of new software companies and represents a multimillion dollar investment. iSoftStone, one of the new software companies in the park, plans to develop account settlement software for the financial services industry.

"The China Cloud Computing Center represents a milestone in service-oriented computing," said T. W. Liu, the chairman and CEO of iSoftStone. "It will allow companies in the Wuxi Software Park to leapfrog to the newest computing models and will provide an efficient IT platform for software development."

Cloud computing is an approach to shared information technology (IT) infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services. Cloud computing allows corporate data centers to operate more like the Internet by enabling computing resources to be accessed and shared as virtual resources in a secure and scalable manner. The center will be built using IBM's "Blue Cloud" technologies, a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software which link together computers to deliver Web 2.0 capabilities such as mashups, open collaboration, social networking and mobile commerce.

IBM has established a significant research and development presence in China. There are currently more than 3,200 IBM engineers and scientists employed by IBM labs in Beijing and Shanghai. Engineers from the High Performance on Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team in IBM China will work with their colleagues in the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory to establish the center.

For more information about IBM's High Performance On Demand Solutions Lab, please visit http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/hipods/

ARMONK, NY - 31 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new software that allows businesses to better manage the growth of information by integrating data warehousing and archiving capabilities. The new InfoSphere Warehouse with Optim Data Retention will help companies better manage enterprise data throughout its lifecycle and deliver optimal performance and compliance with changing business policies.

InfoSphere Warehouse combines the strength of IBM data warehouse software and recently acquired Princeton Softech's Optim Data Retention solution to more efficiently manage large amounts of data to enhance users' competitive advantage.

"Our clients are achieving significant competitive advantage by capturing insight from massive amounts of information collected during business transactions every day," said Arvind Krishna, Vice President, IBM Database Software. "This ever growing volume of information has a life span -- and eventually an end-point. Managing information across its life span through archiving and retention is the value InfoSphere Warehouse brings to our clients."

"Our mutual clients face the challenge of data growth and how to manage it," said Dave McDowell, President, Kazer. "This new offering will provide them an easier and more cost effective solution for reducing storage costs, improving performance and ensuring compliance to data retention requirements as well as complement our Database Services and Business Intelligence practice as we assist our clients with all of their critical data needs."

The new InfoSphere Warehouse offering is based on DB2 database software, which provides a unique set of innovations that meet growing customer demand for analytics and Information on Demand.

InfoSphere Warehouse with Optim Data Retention will be available end of Q1. Future updates to the IBM data warehouse portfolio will adopt the new InfoSphere family name. For more information on the InfoSphere family of products, please go to http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/warehouse/launch.html

ARMONK, NY - 25 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Ingram Micro Inc., SYNNEX and Tech Data Corporation will now resell the IBM System Storage N series product line in the United States and Canada. Ingram Micro, SYNNEX and Tech Data will each recruit and help authorize new resellers for the marketing of IBM System Storage N series products.

"IBM's goal is to provide the leading technologies and solutions at every layer of the data center -- storage, servers, software and services -- and utilize our strong relationships with our distributors and resellers to accomplish this," said Stephen Grillo, Worldwide Marketing Manager for N series, IBM System Storage. "We're pleased to now have relationships in place with Ingram Micro, SYNNEX, and Tech Data where they can help deliver N series products to small to mid sized customers to help them solve the most critical data center challenges today."

About Ingram Micro

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM) creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves 150 countries and is the only broad-based global IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

About SYNNEX

Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading business process services company offering a comprehensive range of services to original equipment manufacturers, software publishers and reseller customers worldwide. SYNNEX' service offering includes product distribution, logistics services, business process outsourcing and contract assembly. SYNNEX' vendor base includes the leading industry suppliers of IT systems, peripherals, system components, software and networking equipment. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.

About Tech Data

Founded in 1974, Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD) is a leading distributor of IT products, with more than 90,000 customers in over 100 countries. The company's business model enables technology solution providers, manufacturers and publishers to cost-effectively sell to and support end users ranging from small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) to large enterprises. Ranked 109th on the FORTUNE 500®, Tech Data generated $21.4 billion in sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2007. For more information, visit www.techdata.com.

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ORLANDO, FL - 23 Jan 2008: LOTUSPHERE -- Today at Lotusphere, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a range of Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making for an increasingly virtual, global workforce.

"Web 2.0 for business is about empowering users with the content, social connections and mashup tools to solve business problems," said Michael Rhodin, general manager, IBM Lotus Software. "Today's announcement illustrates the ongoing commitment of IBM to deliver innovation to our customers."

Lotusphere attendees received an early look at IBM's commercial mashup maker, IBM Lotus Mashups. Building on its leadership in the mashup space for more than two years, IBM Lotus Mashups allows non-technical users to easily create enterprise mashups. To solve real business problems with mashups, users can create ad hoc visualizations by blending enterprise and Web-based data.

IBM Lotus Mashups includes:

• A browser-based tool that provides easy assembly of new mashups 
• A rich set of out-of-the-box, business-ready widgets
• A catalog for finding and sharing widgets and mashups
• A builder for the creation of widgets that access enterprise systems  

In addition, IBM introduced the next release of its popular social software for business, IBM Lotus Connections. Since the announcement of Lotus Connections at Lotusphere 2007, it has been deployed by hundreds of organizations around the world. Expecting to be released in the first half of 2008, plans for Lotus Connections 2.0 include several new features such as a new homepage.

The new homepage -- based on Lotus mashup technology -- aggregates and filters social data from all five services of Lotus Connections into a customizable view. Using the widget-based homepage, users can quickly see what has changed across their professional network and easily search for the information they need to get things done. Customers or IBM Business Partners could also create widgets that link information to other social networks such as Yahoo or LinkedIn.

The community component of Lotus Connections is planned be enhanced with discussion forums and the ability to link leading wiki services from IBM Lotus Quickr, SocialText and Atlassian. Lotus Sametime can directly use Lotus Connections community membership lists to integrate unified communications with social networking.

IBM also demonstrated the new IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1, a rich collaboration environment available through the Web and desktop plug-ins, which allows teams to more effectively work together. Plans for Lotus Quickr 8.1 include content libraries, team discussion forums, blogs, wikis and other connectors that make sharing information easier. Lotus Quickr Entry is planned to be added to the Quickr family and will enable personal file sharing through a subset of traditional Lotus Quickr capabilities such as connectors.

IBM also previewed the planned capability to integrate Lotus Quickr with Enterprise Content Management Systems, such as IBM FileNet P8 and IBM Content Manager, providing the industry's most complete end-to-end content and collaboration solution from a single vendor.

IBM social software and leadership in Web 2.0 technology and governance models is helping companies unlock the knowledge within its employee base, making it faster and easier to find topic experts and bring together diverse teams around a common point of interest. In addition, IBM Global Services recently launched a new consulting offering to help clients understand how emerging technologies, such as Web 2.0, social computing, SOA, 3D internet and virtual worlds, can be used to help improve business performance and deliver tangible business value today.

For more information on IBM's Web 2.0 and Lotus Software efforts please visit: www.ibm.com/software/info/web20 or www.ibm.com/press/Lotusphere

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - 20 Dec 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled powerful “smart” search software to help people find information buried in the vast personal database that e-mail has become by identifying the most relevant information in a search query and extrapolating what the user is trying to find.

ARMONK, NY - 29 Nov 2007: IDC reported today that IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share, with 30.0 percent factory revenue share in the third quarter of 2007.¹

IDC also reported healthy industry growth in UNIX servers, which represents 31.1 percent of quarterly server revenue, with IBM achieving industry-leading factory revenue share of 31.9 percent.²

According to IDC, IBM System z mainframe also led servers priced at $250,000 or more with 28.1 percent worldwide revenue share for 3Q07.³

"IBM's leadership position with its System p and System z businesses marked a continuing trend in the industry toward server consolidation," said Bill Zeitler, senior vice president and group executive for IBM Systems & Technology Group. "IBM's investment in innovation for UNIX servers with its latest POWER6-based systems continues to drive growth in this important part of the industry."

ARMONK, NY and MELVILLE, NY - 24 Oct 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.

Arrow, whose Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) division is the largest distributor of System p servers in the world, recently received eight System p 570s. The new servers will be used in the automation and integration of Arrow ECS' order management, financial, procurement and planning operations as the company scales its enterprise resource planning initiative globally. Supported by the System p 570 servers with Advanced POWER™ Virtualization, the configuration will provide 24/7 availability for more than 3,000 concurrent users.

"Arrow was impressed with the capabilities of POWER6 in terms of its performance, ability to scale, and continuous availability features," said Vin Melvin, chief information officer of Arrow Electronics. "Arrow has had an excellent, long-standing relationship with IBM as both a vendor and a partner, and System p and AIX® have formed a prominent core backbone of our architecture for a number of years. Selecting the POWER6 processor was a logical decision for us."

IBM introduced the System p 570 in May and began shipping the midrange server in June. The system is powered by IBM's highly acclaimed POWER6 processor, the world's fastest chip at 4.7 GHz. The dual-core processor doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5™ while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it, meaning that customers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 percent or cut their power consumption virtually in half.

The System p 570, the world's most powerful midrange consolidation machine, contains hardware and software that allows it to create many "virtual" servers in a single box. For instance, the POWER6-based p 570 system is the only UNIX® server in the industry to feature Live Partition Mobility. This breakthrough technique allows customers to move live virtual machines -- including all running applications in that virtual machine -- from one physical UNIX or Linux® POWER6-based server to another while maintaining continuous availability of the applications to end users.

"We're thrilled that Arrow -- a company that thrives on expertise in UNIX systems -- has chosen the p570 and our leadership virtualization technology to increase resource utilization and simplify operations by reducing planned downtime," said Scott Handy, vice president of marketing and strategy, IBM Power Systems. "Customers around the world continue to cast their vote for POWER6 and IBM UNIX servers. We are winning new customers by delivering more than just performance -- extending our leadership to virtualization solutions, energy-saving technology and capabilities and overall balanced system design across the System p family of hardware and systems software."

About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and computer products. Headquartered in Melville, N.Y., Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and 140,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of 260 locations in 55 countries and territories.

About IBM System p servers
Renowned for their computing power, IBM System p servers support user needs across a broad range of applications, including transaction processing, web publishing, data mining, systems management and others. This family of 1- to 64-core IBM Power processor-based systems is designed to provide customers with leadership features for high performance, availability, scalability and dynamic resource allocation. Unique IBM virtualization features allow users to process more information on a single server than ever before, creating the potential to save on total cost of system ownership, as well as space and energy costs.

System p products are designed for smaller and mid-sized business and large enterprises that are using UNIX platforms. The servers use AIX®, IBM's UNIX-based operating system, and also support thousands of Linux-based applications. Migration services enable customers to quickly and easily convert from competing platforms -- such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard -- to IBM hardware.

System p servers are powered by IBM's leadership technology, including the POWER6 microprocessor, the world's fastest chip, built using IBM's state-of-the-art 65 nanometer process technology. At 4.7GHz, the dual-core POWER6 processor doubles the speed of the previous generation POWER5 while using nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool it, meaning customers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 percent or cut their power consumption virtually in half.

For more information on IBM System p servers and offerings, please visit http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/.

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ARMONK, NY - 23 Oct 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced enhancements to disk and tape storage solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), offering increased performance and simplicity with lower cost. New functionality across the IBM System Storage™ DS3000 and DS4000 disk series, as well as IBM System Storage TS2240 Tape products add scalability and broaden support for customers while helping to decrease cost.

"Small and medium businesses tend to be budget conscience organizations, yet they are seeing rapidly changing industry landscapes and immense data growth. They need technology that will allow them to stay ahead of the curve without breaking the bank," said Susan Blocher, Vice President, IBM System Storage Marketing. "We are committed to supporting our SMB customers' information storage needs, from basic backup and recovery to compliance and archive initiatives -- all with a focus on simplicity and reduced costs."

Disk Storage Solutions for SMBs
The IBM System Storage DS3000 disk product series has been expanded to include low-cost Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) support as well as support for IBM System p servers and IBM BladeCenter Power blades. Customers can now intermix SAS and SATA drives on the DS3000 series to allow for increased flexibility in cost and performance. These enhancements expand the scalability and support of IBM's entry-level disk storage solutions and offer new lower cost options to customers.

Additionally, the IBM System Storage DS4000 series midrange disk storage offerings of high-performance, high-availability, business-critical storage solutions have been turbo-charged with new software functions and features delivered through enhancements in DS4000 Storage Manager Software across the DS4800, DS4700 Express, and the DS4200 Express products. These enhancements will offer:

• Support for RAID 6 on the DS4700 Express models and the DS4200 Express, giving customers improved data availability during drive rebuild operations
• Support for greater than 2 TB volumes on selected supported operating systems
• Increased number of Flash Copies available per storage controller
• Up to 64 enhanced remote mirror pairs on the DS4700 and DS4200, and up to 128 on the DS4800 offering customers increased options for disaster recovery
• Enhanced cache utilization further improving performance
• Tiered performance license key for DS4800 Model 80 enabling a performance boost "on demand"
• Up to 128 storage partitions on the DS4700 Express and DS4200 Express, and up to 512 on the DS4800, enabling a range of hosts with different capacity, performance, or data protection demands to effectively share a single DS4000 storage system
• DS4000 Series is delivering real business value to SMB clients with scalable solutions enabling business growth and designed to provide savings and investment protection with low total cost of ownership. World-class services support SMBs with consulting, education and expertise

The enhanced IBM System Storage DS3000 and DS4000 Series will be available on December 7, 2007 and February 8, 2008, respectively. The DS3000 will have a starting price of $4,500 and the DS4000 will start at $11,500.

Midrange Tape Storage
Additionally, IBM today announced the IBM System Storage TS2240 Tape Drive Express Model LTO 4 Half-High, a high performance tape storage solution that offers enterprise-level encryption with a small size and low cost. The TS2240 offers 120 MB/sec performance native data transfer rate; 800 GB of capacity (up to 1.6 TB at 2:1 compression); continued media support of prior LTO generations; application-managed encryption; and 3 Gbps Serial Attached Storage (SAS) attachment availability. It is an ideal tape storage solution for smaller businesses with constrained resources, limited IT personnel and restricted floor space that still demand high capacity, leading performance and secure data.

The TS2240 offers higher capacity and higher performance than other existing half-height drives in the market, delivering more value to customers. For applications or IT environments requiring maximum capacity, the TS2240 drive technology continues to provide the same compatible LTO technology standards upon which many SMBs depend. The security features of the TS2240 have also been enhanced from previous generations with application-managed encryption of data installed in the drive and the option of whether or not to encrypt data.

The IBM System Storage TS2240 will be available on November 16, 2007 with a starting price of $4,500.

IBM Global Financing (IGF), the lending and leasing business segment of IBM, can provide competitive rates to qualified applicants to access these new offerings. For more information, payment calculators and information about the benefits of financing visit the IGF website, www.ibm.com/financing.

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ARMONK, NY - 26 Sep 2007: Aria Systems is beginning its migration to IBM (NYSE: IBM) servers to power its on-demand billing and customer management solutions for the online games market.

The company is looking to IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter to save space, increase density and decrease power consumption, while lowering total cost and improving infrastructure flexibility. IBM's extensive experience meeting the unique needs of online game companies also was a key factor in the decision to phase in a migration to IBM hardware.

"The most successful game developers understand that impressive graphics and technology can only take you so far if you can't support players from a customer management and billing standpoint," said Ed Sullivan, CEO & Founder of Aria Systems. "The IBM System x and BladeCenter platforms' scalability and attractive price to performance ratio are unmatched in bringing our gaming industry clients the on-demand payment capabilities upon which they depend."

About Aria Systems
Aria Systems, based in Media, PA (metropolitan Philadelphia), is the premier provider of on-demand billing and customer management solutions for SaaS. The Aria solution integrates a sophisticated billing engine with customer support and marketing tools in a single, highly configurable application -- which enables clients to "get customers, get paid, and get control." Which means quicker time-to-market, accelerated revenue capture, business process automation, and significantly reduced operating costs. For more information, visit http://www.ariasystems.com.

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ARMONK, NY - 04 Jun 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that a new report from leading industry analyst firm IDC shows that for 2006, IBM surpassed all storage vendors worldwide to claim the #1 worldwide revenue share position for combined disk and tape storage products. This news comes on the heels of IBM growing storage software revenue 28.2 percent for 2006 -- revenue growth which was nearly three-and-a-half times greater than the overall storage software segment, according to IDC. [1]

The newly released May 2007 report [2] by leading industry analyst firm IDC, "Worldwide Combined Disk and Tape Storage 2006 Market Share Update," shows IBM in the #1 overall position for all disk and tape storage hardware for the full year 2006.

In a total disk and tape storage hardware segment that increased to $28.2 billion in 2006, IBM captured 22.2 percent of the combined revenue for full year 2006, besting HP's 20.9 percent and EMC's 13.2 percent.

"This is a watershed moment in the history of the IBM Storage business, reflecting a true turning point in how customers today are choosing their storage solutions," said Andy Monshaw, General Manager, IBM System Storage. "Through the strength of our IBM Business Partners, our strategic relationship with Network Appliance, our tight integration with IBM Tivoli and the IBM Software Group, our deep history, experience and innovation in IBM Research, our Services capabilities, and the natural symmetry with IBM Systems, the IBM Storage business offers a portfolio of integrated solutions that can help clients deliver information on demand that is unmatched in the industry -- a portfolio that HP and EMC don't have."

IDC highlights in the report that as mergers and acquisitions continue, and requirements such as archiving, data protection and disaster recovery become more prevalent, more and more customers today are utilizing disk, tape and storage software as a means to manage a more integrated storage infrastructure. Per IDC's report, IDC stated it "began monitoring storage vendor participants from a combined perspective in an effort to bring visibility into the strategic choices that are being made."

The past year of marketshare results are showcasing where customers are buying, and in turn changing the impact of the IBM Storage brand on those customers. This month, Liquid Agency, a leading marketing and brand awareness organization announced that IBM Storage had won the inaugural Brand Impact Award, an award designed to set a new standard for measuring the effectiveness of brands. IBM Storage was declared the winner of the Inaugural Storage Brand Impact Award, while 2nd place went to EMC and 3rd to HP.[3]

For more information about IBM Storage, please visit http://www.ibm.com/storage.