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Across IBM’s storied 100-year history, Sam Palmisano will be remembered as one of the company’s most-successful and most-influential chief executives.
Palmisano, whose memorable tenure as CEO ended with his long-planned retirement on Dec. 31, drove unprecedented innovation across IBM not only through what he brought to the company—analytics, cloud computing, Smarter Planet, intense globalization—but also by what he shed from the company—commodity hardware, most....