ABC Bank in Brazil Selects IBM for Green Data Center Solution

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Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:00pm EDT 

SAO PAULO, April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
that the ABC Brazil Bank has signed an agreement with IBM in Brazil to
implement a scalable modular datacenter, following Information Infrastructure
best practices. 

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In addition to occupying less space, the solution's objective is to increase
energy efficiency. The solution will also deliver high availability of the
information technology (IT) environment higher employee productivity and easy
access to customers' data and information. 

The initiative combines the capital and operational costs with the bank's IT
requirements, allowing the directors to focus more on their business plan. The
agreement includes 36 months of IBM online maintenance and support, storage
and IBM Blade Center servers, as well as virtualization technology. 

The agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2009.

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    Media Contact:
    Vanessa Garcia, IBM Brasil
    vaneg@br.ibm.com
    55 11 2132-7759

    Aliza Fischer, IBM US
    afische@us.ibm.com
    917-472-3721




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Vanessa Garcia, IBM Brasil, +55-11-2132-7759, vaneg@br.ibm.com, or Aliza
Fischer, IBM US, +1-917-472-3721, afische@us.ibm.com
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