Welcome Contact Us Investor Relations Business Drivers Industries Offerings Insights Partners About Us Unisys Home > Web > 20140919095451 > Http: > > Www.Unisys.Com > About Us > Company History Company History Unisys – A History of Excellence The 141-year history of Unisys is one of reliable, technically excellent, tenacious people – people helping businesses and governments protect their assets and apply information technology to achieve new levels of competitiveness and success. 2014 – Unisys debuts the first ClearPath systems making use of an advanced fabric-based architecture that enables clients to run OS 2200 and MCP applications alongside Linux and Windows in the same Intel-based computing platform. 2013 – Unisys announces its new Forward!™ by Unisys enterprise computing platform – a breakthrough fabric-based solution that brings unmatched levels of mission-critical security, availability, scalability and predictable computing performance to workloads running on Intel-based servers. Unisys announces the availability of its Unisys Stealth™ for Mobile solution to address the major security concerns facing enterprises as growing numbers of their employees use consumer devices at work. 2012 – Unisys launches the ClearPath Libra 6200 high-end server and other new members of the ClearPath family that use a breakthrough architecture combining Intel Xeon processors with Unisys enterprise-class virtualization to deliver performance previously possible only with proprietary technology. Unisys launches new software channel reseller program to help market the Unisys Stealth Solution Suite to industry segments targeted for cyber attacks, such as public sector, financial, healthcare and legal. Application development services of Unisys Global Services, India, achieves CMMI-Dev version 1.3 Maturity Level 5. CMMI maturity practices adopt a data-driven approach to deliver complex projects while driving organization-wide continuous process improvements. Unisys applies CMMI maturity practices to areas of focus such as Application Modernization and Outsourcing, Data Center Transformation and Outsourcing, and Security. 2011 – Unisys unveils Stealth Solution for Secure Virtual Terminal, a solution residing on a federal government-certified USB device to protect mobile users’ data and make it is readily available only to those authorized to view it. Unisys rolls out its most powerful ClearPath mainframes ever - the Libra and Dorado 800 Series - featuring innovations designed to handle clients’ growing mission-critical workloads and enable mobile users to access data center resources more easily. Unisys Stealth Solution for Networks achieves EAL-4+ certification from the National Security Agency as a secure solution for protection of data-in-motion. 2010 – Unisys debuted secure partitioning (s-Par®), a Unisys-developed virtualization technology for Intel processor-based ClearPath servers. This capability enables ClearPath users to make more efficient use of special-purpose processors called specialty engines to streamline resource management and speed up system response. Unisys launched the Unisys Hosted Secure Private Cloud Solution. Managed in a Unisys services center, this solution gives clients the primary benefits of both provider-hosted clouds and private clouds: respectively, fast access to IT resources without purchasing additional infrastructure, and greater control over critical business assets. 2009 – Unisys announces new, focused strategy building on the company’s strengths in the growing markets of security, data center transformation and outsourcing, end user outsourcing and support services, and application modernization. Building on the company’s new strategy, Unisys refreshes its solution portfolio with innovative new services and technologies including Converged Remote Infrastructure Management, Smart On-site, and a range of new ClearPath enhancements. Unisys completes security certification for multi-client outsourcing centers where 14 centers worldwide help outsourcing clients maintain stringent security for business-critical information while lowering operational costs. 2008 – Unisys helps Beijing Airport prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games by serving as the master systems integrator for a brand new Terminal 3 to handle soaring traffic. 2007 – Unisys opens a data center with innovative “green” design — from energy-efficient servers to restoration of prairie lands. The revamped outsourcing facility cuts carbon footprint and promotes sustainability. The Unisys Security Index goes global. The Unisys Security Index is an ongoing global measure of consumer opinion on various issues related to national, personal, financial and Internet security. 2006 – Unisys develops its breakthrough Unisys Security Index to provide a snapshot of consumers’ sense of security in four areas — national, personal, financial and Internet security. ES7000/one Enterprise Server gives clients a foundation for achieving a Real-Time Enterprise. Based on Intel Xeon MP and Itanium 2 technology, the ES7000/one lets enterprises run Windows and Linux in their data centers. 2004 – 3D Blueprinting is introduced – a new way of seeing the inner workings of an organization that makes predicting the outcome of change more a matter of analysis than of guesswork. 2001 – Customers are entering into long-term contracts with Unisys, resulting in outsourcing business with organizations such as Lloyds TSB, Northwest Airlines, Air Canada, California State University Systems, BMW Bank, HSBC, and GE Capital Bank. 2000 – Unisys begins shipping ES7000 servers – the first in the market to take advantage of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server's support for 32-processor scalability. We launched iPSL, Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited, positioning the company as one of the major providers of outsourced financial services in the world. 1998 – Unisys launches initiative to bring enterprise-class capabilities to Windows NT environments. As part of this plan, we announced Cellular Multi-Processing (CMP), which will bring such enterprise-class capabilities as high-speed I/O, partitioning, and cross-bar architecture to Intel-based Windows NT servers. 1997 – Unisys Windows NT servers lead industry in price/performance. 1995 – Unisys introduces ClearPath Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP), enabling customers to integrate A Series and 2200 Series applications and databases with UnixWare and Windows NT applications and databases on a single platform. 1994 – Services and solutions become the company's single largest business. 1993 – Unisys introduces 2200/500, the first mainframe based on complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. 1992 – Unisys forms unit to deliver IT services. 1989 – Unisys introduces Micro A, the first desktop, single-chip mainframe. 1986 – Sperry and Burroughs merge to form Unisys Corporation. Sperry introduces 2200 Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP IX system. 1984 – Burroughs introduces A Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP NX system. 1980 – Burroughs golf scoring service first introduced at the 109th Open Championship Muirfield, Scotland. 1976 – Sperry introduces first cache memory disk subsystem. 1965 – Sperry introduces the 1108, the first multiprocessor computer. 1961 – Burroughs introduces the B5000 Series, the first dual-processor and virtual memory computer. 1960 – Sperry introduces the 1100 Series, forerunner of the 2200 Series. 1959 – Burroughs pioneers use of magnetic ink character recognition (MICR). 1955 – Sperry and Remington Rand merge to form Sperry Rand. 1953 – Burroughs introduces first 10-key adding machine. Remington Rand introduces UNIVAC 1103, the first commercial use of random access memory (RAM). 1952 – UNIVAC makes history by predicting the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as U.S. president before polls close. 1951 – Remington Rand delivers UNIVAC computer to the U.S. Census Bureau. 1950 – Remington Rand acquires Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. 1949 – Remington Rand produces 409, the world’s first business computer. The 409 was later sold as the UNIVAC 60 and 120 and was the first computer used by the Internal Revenue Service and the first computer installed in Japan. 1946 – ENIAC, the world's first large-scale, general-purpose digital computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. 1933 – Sperry Corp. formed. 1930 – Working closely with Lt. James Doolittle, Sperry Gyroscope engineers developed the artificial horizon and the aircraft directional gyro – which quickly found their way aboard airmail planes and the aircraft of the fledgling commercial airlines. TWA was the first commercial buyer of these two products. 1928 – Burroughs ships its one millionth adding machine. 1927 – Remington Typewriter and Rand Kardex merge to form Remington Rand. 1925 – Burroughs introduces first portable adding machine, weighing 20 pounds. Remington Typewriter introduces America's first electric typewriter. 1923 – Burroughs introduces direct multiplication billing machine. 1911 – Burroughs introduces first adding-subtracting machine. 1910 – Sperry Gyroscope Co. founded to manufacture and sell navigational equipment. 1909 – Remington Typewriter Co. introduces first "noiseless" typewriter. 1905 – American Arithmometer renamed Burroughs Adding Machine Co. 1886 – American Arithmometer Co. founded to manufacture and sell first commercially viable adding and listing machine, invented by William Seward Burroughs. 1873 – E. Remington & Sons introduces first commercially viable typewriter. 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