Louis Cardinals announced a three-year contract extension with general manager John Mozeliak on Thursday and exercised the 2014 option for manager Mike Matheny, hoping the pair will keep the team contending for the World Series.

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For example, using the zEnterprise System with the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, a financial services company managing credit card transactions on the mainframe using an IBM blade optimized for analytics can gain insights from the information in seconds.

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Though the Nets gave general manager Billy King a contract extension last week, it is unknown if Carlesimo will be back after leading the Nets to a 35-19 mark after replacing the fired Avery Johnson in late December.

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The new systems design combines IBM's new zEnterprise mainframe server with new technology--the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and the IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager--that enable it to manage workloads running across System z, and select POWER7 and System x servers.

ENGADGET: IBM's zEnterprise architecture makes mainframes cool again, also efficient (video)

"I don't think that there has ever been a summer with so much managerial speculation and we are delighted that, with Ian McCall signing a three-year extension to his contract, much of that speculation surrounding our manager has been removed, " said Cowan.

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Rivera began his morning farewell news conference with a joke, telling the assembled reporters and team personnel that he was grateful to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman for a two-year-contract extension carrying into 2015.

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