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When IBM shares jump on an historic 200 m when United States business growth in the history of myth has it. This has been one of the world’s largest maker of computer hardware, with 2008 United States achieve 3 years in a row since the financial crisis gained enviable record of announcing to the world, successfully completed the world’s largest computer-services provider’s gorgeous transformation.

Three-year stock price doubled three times times

For the time of the financial crisis, began in the year Wall Street subprime mortgage crisis, caused instability in the global financial system crisis, United States local real estate bubble burst again, once the loss of confidence of investors, stock market performance precarious.

In November 2008, IBM’s shares also fell below $ 70, but this did not last long, and by the end of 2009, IBM’s share price has steadily recovered to $ 130, a low point in early cumulative growth 85%; end of 2010, when IBM share price closed $ 146.76 when representing a cumulative increase of 12% also achieved, and more than 25% per cent of cumulative gains for the year 2011.

Rose in a row, plus the beginning of 2012 has stronger US stocks to the market’s overall drive, IBM shares shortly before a red sky, leapt above $ 200 per share, laugh again proud to record highs.

Three years, IBM’s shares soaring nearly three times, $ 213.886 billion a company’s market value at the end of 2011. P 100 cumulative gains of less than 200% in the same period, other benchmarks the market gains have been lagging behind.

In addition, the performance data is equally impressive.

Public information displays, 2009, IBM to achieve revenues of $ 95.8 billion, net income of $ 13.4 billion; 2010, IBM revenues reached US $ 99.9 billion, an increase of 4%, net profits of us $ 14.8 billion, an increase of 10%, 2011 year, IBM revenue of us $ 106.9 billion, an increase of 7% and net income of us $ 15.9 billion, as compared with the previous year growth 7%.

At the same time, earnings per share from $ 10.01 in 2009 by 2011 more than $ 13. , Chief Executive of the new company fojiniya·luomanti (Virginia Rometty) was reiterated in a report to shareholders this year, before 2015 to achieve earnings per share of $ 20 target.

Gushen behind Buffett

Those financial crises, for three years in a row contrarian growth, is a subsidiary of IBM in 2005, split after a PC manufacturing business to China’s Lenovo Group, shifted the focus of company development strategy of patent research and development and information technology business solutions successfully, even leading the United States barometer for changing IT industry.

Seems to see has continued growth of profit prospects, “gushen” Warren Buffett its control of primary grams Hill · HA sub Wei company from March 2011 began low-key gradually buy IBM shares, Trojan funds in 2011 end over 10.7 billion $, holding volume reached 64 million unit, accounted for to has IBM total equity of 5.5%, also became its of first large shareholders–this moves in then market interpretation in the, is depending on for Buffett on tech of once “made an exception operation”, because from investment records see, He never bought IT stocks.

“When I use a different perspective to understand the results of IBM for nearly 50 years, and after talking with many technology executives, I have decided to build positions IBM stock. “Buffett explained in a clear in public that, IBM success of a long-term strategy, future development roads clear, is also optimistic about the share price performance in the next 5 years.

One analysis people on reporter said, get Buffett this star level large investors of long-term favored, on IBM shares of future trend very favourable, does not excluded continues to rose of may; while also should see, this is United States established PC manufacturing giant once beautiful of “light assets” of transformation, in current international economic financial changing of grim situation Xia, IBM should can as a is good of growth sample.

As of last night dispatch, the NYSE-listed IBM shares above $ 205.

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According to renowned market research firm Gartner recently issued report, IBM Corporation global server market in the 2011 four seasons of header name location, market revenue share to 33.7%. Report also noted that IBM market revenue share for the year 2011 of 30.5%, 1.5% higher than the ranking followed by HP.

Gartner pointed out in the report, IBM four quarters of last year, the company also won the title of first vendor of Unix server, when a quarter of its market share as high as 52.8%. Thanks to IBM server hardware business development, IBM last year four-quarter revenues grew 17%, shares in the company in the market are more compared to the same period of the previous year increased by 10.9%. IBM Corporation for the year 2011 to 45.9% the market share leader in Unix server market, increase of 6.9% compared to 2010. IBM and above at $ 250,000 price Server also are in the leading position in the market, the 2011 four seasons of market revenue share to 69.4%. At the same time, IBM Corporation continues to lead this market for the year 2011, the market share of 63.7%, 8% growth in revenues over the same period last year.

Gartner company pointed out that the 2011 quarter worldwide server market decline in total revenues of 5.4%, server shipments grew by 4.5%. 2011 7.9% global server market revenue growth for the year, shipments rose 7%, IBM and HP dominate revenues and shipments two indicators. Gartner analyst jiefuli·xiuyite (Jeffrey Hewitt) said in a statement published in: “October 2011 Thailand torrential flood disaster cause the manufacturers suffered hard drive ran out of stock situations, in addition to last a few weeks at the end of last year, many suppliers can’t meet the shipping requirements. We expect the negative impact will continue until the first quarter of 2012. ”

Beijing time on March 4, according to foreign media reports, IBM is pushing its own “smart cities” (Smarter Cities) philosophy, and in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, city-building the world’s first unified data management center of the city, to coordinate and improve the efficiency of urban management. For IBM, in building a comprehensive management of the city of Rio de Janeiro is a data center is not an easy task. By 2050, the estimated 75% people in the world will live in cities. Many major cities have also been lined up including sensors, cameras and GPS devices, data collection systems.

However, current technology and data analysis techniques to improve the established technology companies such as IBM has the ability to compare the collected data, and using computer algorithms to predict the flow of data types and trends.

According to market research firm IDC Government Insights forecasts, 2011 global urban information technology new wisdom of the market reached US $ 34 billion and increasing by more than 18% per year, this market will reach us $ 57 billion by 2014.

It is understood that Rio de Janeiro urban management centre has been put into use at the end of 2010, this is the first attempt of IBM to the city information technology market. Worth mentioning is that some of its science and technology companies such as Cisco Systems has established some advantages in this market. So, even IBM the enterprise of science and technology, market research conducted in the city of Rio de Janeiro also faced a very tough challenge.

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IBM researchers have developed a prototype optical chip, able to transfer 1Tb of data per second, faster than today’s optical chips, energy consumption ratio is also higher. Optical chips are light instead of electricity to transmit data is often used for internal processor supercomputer interconnect. Holey Optochip chip size is 5.2 mm x 5.8 mm, is a common chip 1%, 4.7 watts 1Tb of data transmitted per second.

IBM says their goal is for parallel interconnection between processors in the system, rather than the communications between the processor and memory. Holey Optochip is based on standard CMOS chip, using vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers out of 48 holes. IBM plans commercialization of optical chip within one to two years, the price is expected to be between 100 and 200 dollars.

IBM is currently the companies such as HP and Oracle as a competitor, it will launch its PureSystems product to compete with. PureSystems is IBM introduced a new product to help the company save time and money. According to IBM, and IDC (Internet Data Center) according to the research company, companies take about in a simple operation and maintenance expenses accounted for 70% of their IT budgets, leaving only a small portion of the money used for invention and innovation. May is even more worrying is that enterprise IT projects exceed budget of about two-thirds, and cannot be completed as planned.

IBM, “said PureSystems will help customers save time and money, it will help our customers to innovate. And the most urgent thing is, because of the traditional data center costs and staffing needs of the unprecedented increase in, many companies do not deal with this issue. “For example, the company building, purchasing and deploying a typical Web applications the basic equipment you need now to take six months or even longer periods of time. But PureSystems will shorten the time of one-third. This program will provide a number of different products, and will be listed in the first quarter.

IBM systems technical head of Ron Adkins said, “according to the size of the system and procedures, you may need to spend a few days or a few weeks ‘ time to set. Using PureSystems will in some cases shorten that time. “PureSystems was purchased and, after 4 years of research and development, at a cost of us $ 2 billion could not have been completed.

One research firm Forrester analyst Jon Rymer said PureSystems’s release for IBM, it is “very important,” because the company has achieved many competitive areas of commercialization. Rymer said, “their added value is to create a better product”, and IBM in infrastructure consolidation trend than its competitors to go even further.

Oracle, HP, Cisco and other leading IT vendors have begun the implementation of integrated infrastructure, the integration infrastructure servers, storage, networks and other technology integrated into a single centralized facilities. From idealistic point of view, this initiative will retain customers and leads its competitors.

When it comes to lists of IBM commerce platform software, Rymer said, “IBM through the analysis of software e-commerce platform and data centers, will contribute to the longer term development. “E-commerce platform software is a set of tools that enables its users to establish and operate a business website.

United States Science and technology blog BusinessInsider on patent strength of 21 science and technology company today for statistics, traditional giants such as IBM, Intel, and HP’s patents are up to tens of thousands of entries, emerging companies such as Google and Amazon Thunder is strong, but the patent number is only around 1000 or even less.

BusinessInsider is through the United States Patent and Trademark Office database to search, understanding technology company to the home number. But which are not included in the United States other than applications for patents, cannot understand or through acquisitions of other companies also authorized access to patent, could not be informed of patent quality. However, this can to some extent understand patent strength of big technology companies.

Reserve list of patents for technology companies:

1, IBM:70715

The company only 6,800 of patent applications last year. IBM was one of the first enterprise of intellectual property as an independent source of income. The company’s current annual income obtained through patents and other intellectual property rights of more than US $ 1 billion.

2, Samsung: 47,855

3, Canon: 46,322

4, Sony: 36,508

5, HP: 23,904

6, Xerox: 23,603

Shidate used to have the reputation of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Bill Gates (Bill Gates) and Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) have visited here, and from there it absorbs a lot of inspiration, such as computer graphical interfaces and mice.

7, Intel:21153

8, Motorola: 21,027

This is the sum of patents under the Motorola name, in 2010, but the company broken up. Google to buy Motorola mobile has about 17,000 patents.

9, Microsoft: 19,800

10, Ricoh: 14,363

11, Lucent: 11,713

Lucent was AT&T Technologies, including the Research Department at Bell Labs is owned by AT&T. In 2006 the company France Telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent acquired.

12, Nokia: 9,615

13, Cisco: 7,208

14, Oracle: 3,371

But the company last year acquired the Sun also owns 7,618 patents.

15, Apple: 4,649

16, Dell: 2,489

17, Google:1124

Compared with the competitors, the figure little, this is one of the reasons Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s mobile.

18, Verizon:1110

19, Yahoo: 1029

20, AOL:533

The company’s CEO Tim Armstrong (Tim Armstrong) revealed that might follow the example of Yahoo, with the patent against competitors.

21, Amazon: 448

Includes one-click shopping patents.

Although not as brilliant as Apple, Google, but IBM still most of the entire industry just had one hundredth birthday of towering mountains

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According to Bloomberg, Facebook bought from IBM 750 patents, so that they can better deal with patent litigation. According to sources, the patent covers a variety of technologies, including software and network. Acquisitions will take Facebook’s patent portfolio is more powerful. Now, Facebook has at least 56 patents, also briefed the United States 503 of patent applications.

Facebook is the largest social network companies. Early this month, Yahoo to the Facebook initiated proceedings, accusing it infringed 10 patents, some key features associated with a Web site. Last year, Facebook is facing 22 cases of patent litigation.

Goodwin Procter LLP company Attorney Thomas Scott (Thomas Scott) in an interview last week, said: “Facebook need some weapons. ”

Yahoo earlier this month to the United States a few weeks in San Jose Federal Court, accused of Facebook’s online advertising system and 10 patent infringes its patents. Yahoo which require Facebook to pay patent licensing fees, personality and content related to online advertising, Web sites, social networks and multiple fields of information.

Industry noted that suing Facebook Yahoo, mainly want to Facebook in the future for all, a certain proportion of into.

Facebook in early February officially to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submit application files for IPO, plans to raise $ 5 billion. According to the information submitted by the company showed that as of the end of 2011, Facebook has 33 patents as well as 149 is approval by the patent.

Before the patent deal with Facebook, IBM at the beginning of January this year also a related patent deals with Google. On January 4, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Web site released information shows that Google has bought IBM’s 217 patents, of which 188 have been approved by the USPTO, another 29 were approved. Google acquisition of patent technology, primarily for mobile communication and database of patents.

IBM on Monday (April 2) that, over the next five years to invest $ 32.9 million euro and the Netherlands Institute for radio astronomy (Astron) completed one called chewing the POBO “(Dome) of the project, operation data of the world’s largest telescope SKA, spy mystery of the big bang.

Is still in the planning of the POBO square kilometre array “(SKA:The Square Kilometer Array), is the world’s largest radio telescope. According to the plan, when completed in 2020, telescopes by about 3,000 units wide and 50 feet of antenna, detecting the first generation of stars and galaxies formed after the big bang when the electromagnetic waves, so as to reveal the electromagnetic fields in the evolution of stars and galaxies in the role of and effects of probing dark energy. These antennas, in accordance with article 5 cantilever shape similar to the Galaxy, at selected locations, arranged in around 1860 miles (3,000 km) area.

However the sensitivity 50 times times the device is currently the world’s largest radio telescope, produces large amounts of data, is twice times the normal amount of global Internet traffic, which is 1 billion GB every day, in other words, was 10 of 18-th byte.

Respond to this demand, IBM announced Monday that starting new projects for a period of 5 years, specializing in running the giant telescope produces data.

Meanwhile, the project also needs to address the transfer of large amounts of data. For this problem, there are two options, namely the direct transmission of optical and opto-electronics technology, and large capacity data memory dump.

In addition, giant telescopes have been filtering out of two installation options, namely Australia and South Africa. In this way, regardless of which place in which Finalize is installed devices, there is no power supply power supply problem.

On this enormous project, IBM engineers have confidence, they said positive-ion Collider of Europe is running the system and calculations about how Sam system is one-tenth, you can draw on their experience.

United States law University (Rutgers University) and IBM on Tuesday opened a super computer center in New Jersey, the Center will include a $ 3.3 million worth of super computers. This super computer known as “IBM Blue Gene/P”, roughly the size of two refrigerators, it is equipped with thousands of central processing units, will be the United States one of the most powerful computer in the East. IBM hoped that it is capable of winning next year’s global top 500 list super computers.

This analysis capabilities with IBM supercomputer show in Jeopardy TV game show Watson counterparts.

Private companies will also be able to use the super computer. According to University spokesman Luo said, at least 12 companies from New Jersey and New York, companies wishing to use this super computer, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson, Xerox, Siemens and JPMorgan Chase.

Super computers can handle large amounts of data, such as gene sequences and consumer buying trends, and more. For example, the Vice President for research and economic development at Rutgers maikeerpazhani (Michael Pazzani) said that on a normal desktop computer for analysis of a gene to be a year of time, but this is enough as long as 1 day on a super computer.

Pazzani: “Rutgers University and IBM signed a long-term cooperation agreement, this is only first step in cooperation between the two sides. We hope to be one of the top academic Computing Center. “He said, because the calculation time considerably, no longer a restricting factor of progress, so that researchers can better play to their creativity.

California venture capital firm Trident Capital yiwangeluosiximaodisi (Evangelos Simoudis), high performance Computing Center in New Jersey in the United States is relatively rare among University, it will be focused on helping companies and scientists. He said that only large in-house development of supercomputers in size compared to the super computer and at Rutgers University.

Blue Gene supercomputer helps researchers perform the analytical work of the Romanian University, initially, superconducting materials and prediction of flood analysis objects are cancer cells.

Hope this super computer at Rutgers can help it attract more private funds of the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of health.

Rutgers University Advisory Expert Group will determine which companies can use the supercomputer, and fees. Rutgers University also plans to produce hundreds of science and computer science students.

In order to stay competitive in the areas of finance and life sciences innovation, establish a computer powerful enough to analyze huge amounts of data has become a challenge of the 21st century. Similarly, with the continuous growth of available information, data science and technology will be the United States latest requirements.

IBM at Rutgers University and started working together as early as a few years ago, IBM and more than 200 universities to establish a cooperative relationship, help them to enhance computer analysis capabilities, including Yale University, Northwestern University and fudehanmu University.

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Xinhuanet,, April 11 (reporter Zhang Ziqian)-International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Canada branches announced a few days ago and Canada Union set up a research and development partner for 7 universities in cooperation, through investments and new super computer, cloud computing laboratory in colleges and universities, strengthening data collection and storage capacity, promoting the Canada Science and technology research and development.

Union participate in partner universities namely the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, Queen’s University, McMaster University, Ontario, University of Waterloo, University of Ottawa and Polytechnic College. Among them, supercomputing and cloud computing labs are primarily provided at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.

It is reported that the project is budgeted at $ 2.1 million (c $ 1 to about US $ 1). Among them, IBM Canada Branch will inject $ 1.75 million in 2014 years ago, Canada Foundation for federal and Ontario Government committed $ 200,000 and $ 150,000 respectively for research and development.

IBM Canada Branch Director yuehan·Luci said, the project started after the first phase of the research project will focus on diseases of the nervous system, protection of water resources and the development of new energy and other fields.

In recent years, Canada College attaches importance to cooperation with commercial enterprises, introduction to expand research funding channels, reduce the cost and improve the scientific research output. Canada is responsible for the Minister of State for science and technology jiali·gudeyier said that through cooperation not only to the strengthening of scientific research in colleges and universities, but also create more jobs.