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IBM To Open New Center Of Excellence

By TechTaffy Desk

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IBM and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will be establishing a center of excellence for security and protection of infrastructure and assets, located in Beer-Sheva, Israel.

IBM has been in Israel for more than 60 years and opened its first research facility in Haifa in 1972. IBM has acquired more than a dozen companies in Israel, and more than 1,000 software and hardware developers work in Research and Development for IBM in Israel.

[Image courtesy: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]

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