IBM’s Systems at the U.S. Open Continue to Evolve
September 5, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM doesn’t sponsor the technology behind the U.S. Open tennis tournament just because its executives like to have box seats at the stadiums in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where the Open is held. Big Blue sponsors the U.S. Open, which is managed by the U.S. Tennis Association, because the systems behind the competition can be used to demonstrate the server hardware and software technology that IBM is trying to peddle to other companies. Every year, the systems that IBM uses to host the U.S. Open and several other global tennis events change, just like the systems do in your own data |