IBM continued its march in the african continent and it recently opened its new branch office at Luanda, Angola, after opening branches at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Dakar, Senegal, in the first half of 2011. With the establishment of branch office in Luanda, IBM has increased its direct presence in more than 20 African countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.Read More…
IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire security intelligence software solutions provider Q1 Labs. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and creating security dashboards for their organisations. Following the close of the acquisition, Q1 Labs will join the newly-formed IBM Security Systems division, representing the world’s most comprehensive security portfolio. After the close, IBM intends the new division to be led by Brendan Hannigan, CEO of Q1 Labs. Read More…
Leading telecom operator in world, Airtel recently announced the selection of IBM to manage the computing technology and services that power Airtel’s mobile communications network spanning 16 African countries. On the finalisation of the agreement, IBM will deploy and manage state-of-the-art information technology (IT) infrastructure and applications to support Airtel’s goal of taking affordable and innovative mobile services to remote locations in Africa. Read More…
IBM has announced new high performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings to help clients tackle advanced scientific and technical computing workloads like analytics, simulations for product development, climate research and life sciences. Today, many organisations operate with separate pools of high performance computing systems. The HPC cloud offerings from IBM will allow clients to link computing resources across their organisations into a single, high performance, private cloud while providing system administrators the flexibility to prioritise resources based on business or technical needs.Read More…
As part of the IBM’s geographic expansion plans targeting key growth markets in Africa, IBM announced the opening of its office in Dakar, Senegal. The Dakar office is part of IBM’s West Africa operations and will allow the company to increase its level of service, and deliver more complex and high-value solutions such as cloud computing and business analytics. IBM will also be to deliver high-value solutions and services to meet the growing needs of clients in Senegal and West Africa, where the company is working closely with a number of business partners.
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