U.S giant IBM, one of the founding members of Guadalajara’s tech cluster, this week celebrated 40 years at its El Salto plant.
Five years after Kodak set up a plant near Plaza del Sol, IBM began operations in a more decentralized location, manufacturing electric typewriters. The rise of computer technology saw its focus change with the times, not only churning out hardware and software, but incorporating research and development. IBM’s Guadalajara campus currently employs around 4,000 and has some 100 patents pending, according to reports.
In recent years, IBM opened a Smarter Data Center at its Guadalajara campus that allows clients to integrate legacy systems and new architectures—such as cloud and virtualization—into a dynamic, open-standards-based data center. Last year saw the firm move production of some of its leading computer servers from its Rochester, New York facility to Guadalajara.