The Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK) and IBM Korea (NYSE: IBM) today announced the completion of IBK's mainframe migration project to IBM System z10, which was done to help the bank create an advanced IT environment as the foundation for its new enterprise data center.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that a Power Systems server demonstrated nearly four times the performance per processor core of an HP ProLiant server.

Scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA have forged a breakthrough in understanding an intriguing phenomenon in fundamental physics: the Kondo effect. They report their findings today in the scientific journal Nature Physics.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) said today it will offer remote, $99 “test drives” of Microsoft’s newly launched supercomputer operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008, via its global network of IBM® Computing on Demand facilities.

Last week Interbrand issued its 2008 Best Global Brands rankings. While most of the top 10 remained unchanged, with IBM and Microsoft swapping places (IBM rose from 3 to 2), one big change emerged: Google rose from 20 to 10, with Mercedes-Benz dropping to 11.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) outperformed storage software vendors EMC and HP as well as the overall storage software segment in the second quarter of 2008 on a rolling four quarter basis, measuring revenue for the named quarter plus revenue for the prior three quarters, according to new revenue share data released by IDC.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) and one of the world's premier cruise lines, will deploy IBM InfoSphere Warehouse software to analyze and improve the effectiveness of the company's marketing and promotional initiatives.

The Hungarian Electricity Transmission System Operator Inc. (MAVIR ZRt) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) to provide the information technology (IT) infrastructure to upgrade its operations and improve its asset management system.

IBM announced plans to build a $360 million state-of-the-art data center at its facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. The data center will include new technologies and services that will enable IBM to deliver Cloud Computing capabilities to clients.

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) will unveil its ninth cloud computing center worldwide in Tokyo, Japan. The center will give large enterprise customers, universities and governments immediate access to the resources they need to pilot cloud infrastructures and applications, and deliver new and innovative services to their customers.

To help people remember key facts, today, IBM unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text recorded on everyday mobile devices to help people recall names, faces, conversations and other important information.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has opened three centers of excellence in China, Mexico and India to provide clients with access to the latest technologies and processes in banking, retail and service management arenas.