Federal government requirements that IT
products should meet for Sensitive, but Unclassified (SBU) use.

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The CC provides a
standardized way of expressing security requirements, defines the
respective set of rigorous criteria by which the product will be evaluated,
and is widely recognized among IT professionals, government agencies, and
customers as a seal of approval for mission-critical software.
To view the certification, visit:
http:/ /csrc.

-- The intention to form Blade. Working with IBM, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
adopted a scalable and highly secure infrastructure, including eight IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Servers, an IBM eServer zSeries mainframe,
nearly 200 IBM eServer xSeries, a dozen IBM eServer pSeries, IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592s and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager .
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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aimed at spurring development and innovation around blade technology with
the intent of supporting BladeCenter innovation in Voice over IP, industry
specific solutions, security and many other technologies . For
example:

-- With the NYSE, IBM Engineering and Technology Services designed
custom, handheld systems that linked to the back-end IBM mainframe systems
to extend transaction and collaboration capabilities onto the trading
floor. Connecting disparate IT systems enables a free flow of information
across the enterprise.

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The PCIX Cryptographic Coprocessor
Security Module is used in the PCIXCC feature on both the IBM eServer z990
and z890. To view the certification visit BSI at http://www.

IBM, eServer, zSeries and the IBM e-business logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. For a
list of additional IBM trademarks, please see
www. "Where transaction processing has been the focus of IT
for decades , we now see clients engaged in a more interactive or
collaborative processing.

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Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take
full advantage of the new era of on demand e-business.

Collaborative processing means using technologies like virtualization, open
standards and encryption to share information real-time inside a business
and helping to enable companies in various industries to work seamlessly on
business applications ranging from designing automobiles and aircraft to
discovering new medicines.
BlueCross said The IBM solution helped the company to significantly save in
the last year and a half.

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That is, the z890 system architecture
is designed to prevent the flow of information among logical partitions on
a single system.S.

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requires that each firm's computing systems must be linked more
intelligently. Open interfaces and implementation of
standards allow premier companies such as Cisco, VMware, Network Appliance
and others, to participate in this infrastructure .
GHY runs 17 virtualized servers and four operating systems, i5/OS, AIX,
Linux and Windows -- simultaneously on one physical machine.

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The EAL5 ranking should give companies confidence that they can run many
z/OS, z/VM, and Linux-based applications containing confidential data --
such as payroll, human resources, e-commerce, ERP and CRM systems -- on one
z890 system divided into partitions that keep each application's data
secure and distinct from the others.de.de/zertifiz/zert/aktuelle .

To help meet the surge in business demand for collaborative processing,
IBM today announced:

-- IBM System z9 mainframe -- a sophisticated computing system, the IBM
System z9 mainframe provides advanced security and virtualization
capabilities that the company said is designed to enable it to support
collaboration and to act as the hub of a new era of collaborative
computing.

"As businesses and institutions integrate their operations internally
and externally with customers and partners, the IT environment is
changing dramatically," said Bill Zeitler, senior vice-president and
group executive. According to Reynolds, about 40 percent of the car
dealers in the U. For
more information about IBM, visit www.

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(2) This certification means that
the PCIX Cryptographic Coprocessor Security Module satisfies the
requirements for a cryptographic module utilized within a security system
protecting Sensitive Information (United States) or Protected Information
(Canada) within computer and telecommunications systems.
For a consolidated view of certified products visit
http://www.nist.

According to IBM, companies once isolated by disparate technologies are
increasingly collaborating to create more on demand operations. It's no longer about what you have, it's now
about what you can accomplish through collaboration. Applications on Demand
provides pre-scheduled, automatic and instantaneous systems backups for
dealerships.

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-- Mercury Computer Systems expects to enhance the compute performance
and image quality of MRI, CT and digital x-ray devices, and other demanding
applications.ibm.

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commoncriteriaportal . The company said the demand is global in nature and will
require that traditional transaction processing by computers be augmented
by a collaborative processing approach that more tightly integrates
technology , processes and personnel.

-- IBM Virtualization Engine 2. Drawing on resources from across
IBM and key IBM Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services,
solutions, financing and technologies that help enable customers, large and
small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business on demand.

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The IBM z890 has received EAL5 certification, indicating that its logical
partitioning has been methodically tested and checked by an independent
evaluator to handle attacks and aid in the prevention of covert channels,
specifically for high-risk environments.com/legal/copytrade.
IBM today detailed new computing systems,
initiatives and a planned collaborative community aimed at helping meet the
rising demand by businesses to collaborate with each other more
efficiently ."

Collaborative Processing Drives Innovation

Opening the IT infrastructure, expanding intelligent components and
allowing customers to highly integrate their systems for broader
sharing of data is the core of the collaborative processing trend.

-- The customers of Reynolds and Reynolds, an automobile dealer services
company, are benefiting from the self-managing capabilities of IBM eServer
xSeries, BladeCenter servers, IBM TotalStorage DS4500 storage-area network
(SAN), IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Director systems management
tools.

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The
standard was published by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) and has been adopted by the Canadian government's
Communication Security Establishment (CSE).com.htm#524.org -- Blade.org is planned be a
collaborative organization focused on accelerating the expansion of
solutions for BladeCenter, developed by IBM and Intel. Using this infrastructure, Reynolds created a new delivery model --
Applications on Demand -- that delivers applications and services to car
dealerships from fully managed remote servers.S.

The following are either trademarks or registered trademarks of
International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other
countries or both: IBM, the IBM e-business logo, System z9, z/OS, zSeries,
pSeries, xSeries, AIX, z/OS, BladeCenter , IBM TotalStorage and WebSphere . All others are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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. All statements regarding IBM's future
direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and
represent goals and objectives only.

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about IBM visit www.

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The company uses the IBM eServer i5 model 550 with
IBM xSeries servers to help reduce the miscellaneous use of x86 servers.

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Highest Level of Commercial Cryptographic Security

Also today, IBM announces that its IBM PCIX Cryptographic Coprocessor
Security Module earned the highest certification for commercial security
awarded by the U.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate.

-- BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, the state's largest not for profit
health plan and a pioneering force in Tennessee's healthcare delivery
system, has significantly increased the volume of data over the last 9
years and expanded system capacity from 500 Gigabytes to 110 Terabytes over
the same period.

All customer examples cited or described in this press release are
presented as illustrations of the manner in which some customers have used
IBM products and the results that they may have achieved. Actual
performance characteristics will vary depending on individual customer
configurations and conditions.

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The IBM z890, along with the z800, z900 and z990, continue zSeries'
leadership as the only servers in the world to achieve the prestigious EAL5
assurance level for partitioning. To find out more about FIPS
certification, please visit,
http://csrc .htm#524.ibm. In addition, all critical dealership data is copied and
stored off-site.

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All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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IBM today announced that its premier midrange
mainframe, the IBM eServer z890 now joins three other IBM mainframes as the
world's only servers with the highest level of hardware security
certification , Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5).

About The Federal Information Processing Standard

The Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) is a
standard that describes U.org. Collaboration between companies and institutions
has begun to blur the traditional lines of information technology.

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gov/cryptval/140-1/1401val2005.

Footnotes

(1) The EAL5 evaluation was completed by atsec information security GmbH,
one of the world's leading vendor-independent IT security consulting
companies, and accredited in Germany by the Federal Office for Information
Security (BSI).

(2) On April 27, 2005, the IBM eServer Cryptographic Coprocessor Security
Module, referred to as the "IBM PCIX Cryptographic Coprocessor" feature,
earned the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 level 4
validation, the highest level of certification currently achievable.

IBM Mainframe refers to any computer that is compatible with IBM eserver zSeries computers and their predecessors, dating back to the System/360 first announced by IBM on April 7, 1964 .

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nist.

About The Common Criteria

The Common Criteria (CC) is an internationally recognized ISO standard used
by the United States federal government and other organizations to assess
security and assurance of technology products. Utilizing the strength of the Cell processor-based
technology 's processing power and IBM's expertise in design engineering,
Mercury says it expects to significantly improve system performance,
delivering precise images of stunning clarity in real time for radiologists
and others.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company , with 80 years of
leadership in helping businesses innovate.

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"IT departments can
feel confident in eliminating the redundancies and costs associated with
separate and distinct server instances by re-hosting or consolidating that
work as logical partitions within the zSeries processor.S.

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and Canadian governments -- Federal Information
Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 4.

To achieve FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification, an independent laboratory is
permitted to attempt virtually any physical attack on the product and must
verify the security of the internal software using a mechanical
verification of a mathematical model. To find out
more about the Common Criteria security certification standards, visit
http://www.0 -- IBM's latest advance in
virtualization technology with unprecedented interoperability across
systems, storage and networking. and Canada rely on Reynolds' systems to help run their
businesses.

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"The thousands of financial services and healthcare customers who currently
trust their critical business transactions to the IBM mainframe will
benefit most from the privacy certification afforded to z890, as well as
government agencies who deal with national security issues," said Jim
Porell, IBM eServer zSeries Distinguished Engineer .bsi. Now NYSE traders can access mainframe-based data in
the palm of their hands from hundreds of PDA devices to ensure accurate
decision-making at record speeds

-- GHY International , a leading provider of professional customs
brokerage, teamed with IBM to develop a highly virtualized and simplified
IT computing environment by replacing and reducing the number of servers
from four down to one.com.

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