IBM boosts Cork with investment

IBM has announced a multi-million euro investment in a new business centre in Cork.

The facility at Blackpool Business Park will greatly increase the range of Business Continuity and Resilience Services (BCRS), services available to organisations in Munster.

The state-of-the-art facility will provide customers with support, ensuring business continuity and resilience in any area of business disruption ranging from minor interruptions, like moving offices, to major interruptions such as a company crisis or environmental disasters.

This announcement is a follow-on to an announcement made earlier this year of strategic importance to the Munster region.

In March 2007, following IBM’s acquisition of Vallent Corporation, the company announced an Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Ireland supported investment in its software development operations in Cork and Galway over the next three years.

IBM has been in this country since 1956. Today it employees over 3,000 people and is one of the longest established and largest IT multi-nationals in the country.

Besides a growing sales and services business, IBM has extensive manufacturing facilities, a software group and software development, a large telesales and marketing centre, an international banking solutions unit and a corporate treasury centre.