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Products, services, and subsidiaries have been offered from International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations since the 1890s. [1] This list comprises those offerings and is eclectic; it includes, for example, the AN/FSQ-7, which was not a product in the sense of offered for sale, but was a product in the sense of manufactured—produced by the labor of IBM.
Ruth Leach Amonette (September 24, 1916 – June 21, 2004) was an American businesswoman, author, and educator. She was appointed as the first female executive and vice president at IBM in 1943, [1] becoming one of only a few women in high-ranking corporate positions in the US at the time.
IBM also introduced "adaptive compression" capability in DB2 10.1, a new approach to compressing data tables. In June 2013, IBM released DB2 10.5 (code name "Kepler"). On 12 April 2016, IBM announced DB2 LUW 11.1, and in June 2016, it was released. In mid-2017, IBM re-branded its DB2 and dashDB product offerings and amended their names to "Db2".
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IBM 1311 Disk Drives – Model 2 (slave) & Model 3 (master) IBM 1311 disk drive with IBM 1316 removable disk pack at the Computer History Museum. The IBM 1311 Disk Storage Drive was announced on October 11, 1962, and was designed for use with several medium-scale business and scientific computers. [32]
[5] [6] Jerry Brody, a long-time employee of IBM Research, subsequently joined the team in 1990. [7] After Deep Thought's two-game 1989 loss to Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine: the winning name was "Deep Blue", submitted by Peter Fitzhugh Brown, [8] was a play on IBM's nickname, "Big Blue".
On Jan. 1, IBM put the brakes on its dollar-for-dollar 5% employee match in its 401(k) plan and began providing most of its US workers a portable "retirement benefit account."
April 2012 – IBM sells its Retail Store Solutions division (Point-of-Sales) to Toshiba TEC [223] January 2014 – IBM sells its IBM System x business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion. [224] October 2014 – IBM sells its Microelectronics (semiconductor) branch to GlobalFoundries. IBM will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion over 3 years to take over ...