IBM Honors Eight New IBM Fellows on 50th Anniversary of Program

IBM marked the 50th anniversary of its Fellows program by elevating eight employees to IBM Fellow for their innovations in areas including cloud and mobile computing, big data, and business analytics. Only 246 individuals have earned this designation in the companies history. The new fellows are:

• Chandu Visweswariah, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Manager, Timing and Circuit Analysis,

• Heike Riel, IBM Research — Manager, Nanoscale Electronics,

• John Ponzo, CTO, IBM Mobile First,

• Monte Denneau, IBM Research Scientist, Computer Science,

• Dinesh Verma, Manager, IT & Wireless Convergence, IBM Research,

• Jason McGee, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect, PureApplication System, IWD and Cloud,

• John Casey, Distinguished Engineer, Packaging and CPI Technology, and,

• Neil Bartlett, Director, Development, & CTO, Risk Analytics.

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IBM SmartCloud Underpins Avnet’s New Custom Cloud Computing Services

IBM has announced that Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet Inc., has selected IBM SmartCloud as the foundation for Avnet Cloud Solutions, a portfolio of cloud offerings for SMBs in India. Avnet offers compute and storage capabilities in a utility model and structures customized solutions such as disaster recovery and managed services. More

Bunbury Selects IBM PureSystems for Government Cloud

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CSC Names Maruf Majet Head of AMEA

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Verdantix Positions TCS as Green Consulting Leader

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CRF Ranks TCS No 1 Among Top Employers in Europe

The CRF Institute has ranked Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as the number one Top Employer in Europe for 2013. TCS was chosen first among the final 20 companies participating at a continental level, which means each was previously certified as a Top Employer in at least five individual European countries. More

RWE Selects Infosys as Transformation Partner

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Infosys to Announce 4Q & FY2012 Results April 12

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Wipro Scheme of Arrangement for Demerger in Effect

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Pamela J. Craig Announces Retirement, David P Rowland Named CFO at Accenture

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