ABC Bank in Brazil Selects IBM for Green Data Center Solution

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SAO PAULO

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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  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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SOURCE: IBM

CONTACT: 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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