International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation is a brand that directly connotes PC hardware and software. It is the case! Its century-long history has generated a number of Nobel-prize winners and a galaxy of inventions that stroke root in everyday life. The ‘Big Blue’ is the company’s nickname, deriving either from the color of mainframes IBM installed in earlier times, blue suits worn by many employees or the color of corporate logos. The etymology of it is still vague.
Today IBM designs and markets not only hardware and software, but also hosting and cloud computing services which are broadly implemented into research, finance, engineering, medical, construction, and nanotechnology fields. Giving tributes to the impact this company made to the development of information technology, it must be noted that the Corporation carried its weight into the first ever human landing on the moon. That speaks volumes.
IBM’s most prominent inventions are:
