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Bharti Airtel has awarded a 10-year contract to IBM to provide IT solutions to its employees across 16 African countries. 
In terms of the agreement, IBM will provide a standard operating environment, help desk and desk side support to enhance employee efficiency and convenience.
The announcement builds on a strategic partnership signed in late 2010 to manage the computing technology and services to power Airtel’s mobile communications network spanning 16 African countries. http://www.ibm.com
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From the Graveyard
You just read about IBM. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Texas Memory Systems built High-performance RAM- and flash-based solid-state storage systems. What became of it?
Texas Memory Systems brought High-performance RAM- and flash-based solid-state storage systems to Storage. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by IBM. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside IBM today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
