IBM
International institution Machines multinational IBM is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 171 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, by trust businessman Charles Ranlett Flint, as a Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company CTR as alive as was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York.
IBM produces and sells data processor [update] for 28 consecutive years.
Inventions by IBM include a automated teller machine ATM, the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory DRAM. The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 70s.
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Headquarters and offices
IBM is headquartered in Armonk, New York, a community 37 miles 60 km north of Midtown Manhattan. A nickname for the agency is the "Colossus of Armonk". Its principal building, pointed to as CHQ, is a 283,000-square-foot 26,300 m2 glass and stone edifice on a 25-acre 10 ha parcel amid a 432-acre former apple orchard the company purchased in the mid-1950s. There are two other IBM buildings within walking distance of CHQ: the North Castle office, which ago served as IBM's headquarters; and the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Center for Learning formerly invited as IBM Learning Center ILC, a resort hotel and training center, which has 182 client rooms, 31 meeting rooms, and various amenities.
IBM operates in 174 countries as of 2016IBM Watson headquarters at Astor Place in Manhattan. outside of New York, major campuses in the United States increase Austin, Texas; Research Triangle Park Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; Rochester, Minnesota; and Silicon Valley, California.
IBM's real estate holdings are varied and globally diverse. Towers occupied by IBM add 1250 René-Lévesque Montreal, Canada and One Atlantic Center Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In Beijing, China, IBM occupies Pangu Plaza, the city's seventh tallest building and overlooking Beijing National Stadium "Bird's Nest", home to the 2008 Summer Olympics.
IBM India Private Limited is the Indian subsidiary of IBM, which is headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka. It has facilities in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurugram, Noida, Bhubaneshwar, Surat, Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Jamshedpur.
Other notable buildings include the IBM Rome Software Lab Rome, Italy, Hursley House Winchester, UK, 330 North Wabash Chicago, Illinois, United States, the Cambridge Scientific Center Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, the IBM Toronto Software Lab Toronto, Canada, the IBM Building, Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa, the IBM Building Seattle Seattle, Washington, United States, the IBM Hakozaki Facility Tokyo, Japan, the IBM Yamato Facility Yamato, Japan, the IBM Canada Head Office Building Ontario, Canada and the Watson IoT Headquarters Munich, Germany. Defunct IBM campuses include the IBM Somers Office Complex Somers, New York and Tour Descartes Paris, France. The company's contributions to industrial architecture and appearance include works by Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei and Ricardo Legorreta. Van der Rohe's building in Chicago was recognized with the 1990 Honor Award from the National Building Museum.
IBM was recognized as one of the Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters by the Endicott, New York.