The move is part of the company's continued focus on emerging markets, notably five nations it dubs the BRICK countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Korea. Of the annual estimated $1 billion IBM is investing in the BRICK countries in terms of initiatives with partners and developers, investment in Russia is in the "multimillions" of dollars, according to Mark Hanny, vice president of independent software vendor (ISV) alliances at IBM.

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