IBM R&D Labs in Israel

IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in 170 countries. IBM's history in Israel began in 1972 when Professor Josef Raviv established the IBM Israel Scientific Center in the Technion's Computer Science Building in Haifa.
Today, over 1000 individuals work at IBM R&D locations across Israel, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Rehovot, and Jerusalem.

IBM research and development activities in Israel include the following labs.

[http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/research.html Haifa Research Lab]

HRL handles projects in the spheres of cloud computing [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071116_379585.htm] [http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23448.wss] ,healthcare, and life sciences, verification technologies [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/svt/index.html] [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/vst/index.html] , multimedia, active management [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/services/stes.html] , information retrieval [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/imt/ir.html] , programming environments [http://www.haifa.ibm.com/dept/services/index.html] , business transformation, and optimization technologies [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/services/abo.html] . HRL is the biggest IBM research center outside the US.

[http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/info/20080416_stg.shtml Systems and Technology Group Lab]

STG incorporates the former [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/development.html Haifa Development Lab] . STG provides design services for ASIC logic design, full custom digital and analog circuit design, array design, physical design, design verification services, chip design and verification, new IP, advanced architecture, synthesis, and lab testing. The lab also develops functions for IBM storage controllers, including an entire set of replication functions for storage systems [http://www.haifa.ibm.com/development/storage.shtml] for flash copy, concurrent copy, extended remote copy, peer-to-peer remote copy, and storage management.

[http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/software.html Israel Software Lab]

ILSL develops software for real-time collaboration [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/rtc.shtml] , content discovery [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/cde.shtml] and text analytics, metadata management [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/metadata.shtml] , application security [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/ilsl/as.shtml] , and SOA [http://www.haifa.ibm.com/ilsl/soa.shtml] . The teams work closely with the Lotus, Information Management, Rational, and WebSphere brands in IBM's Software Group.

During 2008, IBM in Israel acquired [http://www.filesx.com FilesX] [http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23816.wss] , [http://www.xivstorage.com XIV] [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUSL0218975220080103] ] , and [http://www.diligent.com Diligent] [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0527755520080908] ] .

External links

* [http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/index.html IBM Haifa Labs website]