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Open and Collaborative
An expanding universe of mobile devices, networked services
and social enterprises requires open platforms. IBM helped open
platforms such as Linux, Eclipse and Apache become standards
with vital industry ecosystems, and then we developed high-
value businesses on top of them. Today, IBM collaborates broadly
to support open platforms such as OpenStack and Hadoop.
IBM has been the market leader in social enterprise software*
for the past three years. With thousands of mobile experts,
270 patents in wireless innovations and 160 IBM Research
scientists focused on mobile technologies, IBM has helped more
than 1,000 clients become mobile enterprises. Looking ahead,
we will integrate these capabilities with the powerful behavioral
analytics of newly acquired Kenexa to help leaders of human
resources build smarter workforces.
* IDC, “Worldwide Enterprise Social Software 2011 Vendor Shares,” June 2012.
Defined by Software
Entire IT environments can now be as simple, adaptable and
programmable as individual systems are today—thanks to
a new model known as the software-defined environment.
Cloud is its first major manifestation—but it will not be the last.
In a software-defined environment, networks, storage
and servers, as well as software, can be tuned flexibly to
a desired workload. Hardware systems optimized for these
new environments—such as IBM’s System z mainframe,
Power Systems, storage systems and our new PureSystems—
are creating significant new business value.
IBM’s SmartCloud manages 13 billion security events
for more than 4,000 clients per day and connects more
than 300,000 trading entities. IBM has also helped clients
build more than 3,500 private clouds.
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Generating Higher Value at IBM