Drobo has released storage industry predictions for the coming year. These predictions are based on the company’s interactions with thousands of customers, analysts and industry luminaries.
To better understand the dynamic behaviour of cities, the City of Portland and IBM have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn identify opportunities to become a 'smarter city'. The model was built to support the development of metrics for the Portland Plan, the City's roadmap for the next 25 years.
IBM today introduced new analytics software and services to help cities predict the result of policy decisions and their positive and negative spill over consequences up to a quarter century in the future.
To better understand the dynamic behavior of cities, the City of Portland and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have collaborated to develop an interactive model of the relationships that exist among the city's core systems, including the economy, housing, education, public safety, transportation, healthcare/wellness, government services and utilities. The resulting computer simulation allowed Portland's leaders to see how city systems work together, and in turn identify opportunities to become a smarter city. The model was built to support the development of metrics for the Portland Plan, the City's roadmap for the next 25 years.
IBM and Infor today announced an integrated hardware and software solution designed to improve the profitability and responsiveness of manufacturers. Based on IBM's market-leading POWER7® family of systems and the IBM i operating system, the optimized platform with Infor's ERP LX, ERP XA and ERP System21 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is an easy to install system that streamlines manufacturing processes through automated planning, scheduling and fulfillment. It also yields new data intelligence that quickens decision making and reduces administration costs.
An international team of 12 IBM employees from IBM's Corporate Services Corps programme has completed a month-long term during which they helped support the development of an electronic master plan for the country. The team focused on the challenges and requirements to help Kenya realise its vision of transforming into a middle income nation providing an improved quality of life for all citizens by the year 2030.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is helping the National Diet Library of Japan -- the country's only national library -- digitize its literary artifacts on a massive scale to make them widely available and searchable online by all information seekers.
Twenty-five years ago IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists, J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller altered the landscape of physics when they observed superconductivity in an oxide material at a temperature 50 percent higher(1), (-238 deg C, -397 deg F) than what was previously known. This discovery opened an entirely new chapter in the field of physics and earned them the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1987.
IBM and Security First Corp., a data high availability and security company, today announced a joint development agreement aimed at delivering increased performance, security, and high data availability to storage and cloud-based computing customers.
The University of Louisville (UofL) announced today it has worked with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to double its high performance computing power as part of a $1.8 million investment in their supercomputing system. The new capacity will enable the University to proceed with advanced research projects such as discovering new approaches for treating pediatric cancer and developing better materials for solar power both of which are at critical development stages.
IBM today announced the creation of the Services Innovation Lab (SIL), a new global lab that will initially comprise about 200 technology experts hand-picked from around the company. The lab will accelerate the expansion of real-time analytics and software automation in both IBM's technology services offerings and its global services delivery capabilities.
The IBM (NYSE: IBM) Selectric typewriter turns 50 on July 31, commemorating a design icon that revolutionized the day-to-day lives of office workers around the world. The Selectric's half-century birthday coincides with IBM's Centennial year and the release of a new U.S. postage stamp honoring the Selectric as an icon of design.
The IBM board of directors today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.75 per common share, payable September 10, 2011 to stockholders of record August 10, 2011.
IBM said today that new software, clients and performance benchmark results demonstrate its leadership in the business integration market.
Researchers from IBM (NYSE: IBM) today demonstrated the future of large-scale storage systems by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single system in just 43 minutes, shattering the previous record of one billion files in three hours by a factor of 37.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has entered into a seven-year services agreement with The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (Manulife) valued at close to $90M CAD annually to support Manulife Financial's (TSX:MFC)(NYSE:MFC)(PSE:MFC)(SEHK:0945) ongoing business growth, as well as continued evolution of its information technology operations.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Silanis Technology today announced that the State of Vermont is using cloud computing to transform its business operations to improve efficiencies, boost profits and more cost effectively collaborate with vendors.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new cloud-based collaboration services to help U.S. Federal government organizations reap the benefits of social computing.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new version of its successful XIV® Storage System that can help clients make use of their valuable data faster and easier while reducing storage costs. IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 can provide improved performance for clients' most demanding application workloads, such as virtualization, analytics and cloud computing.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today awarded nearly $1 million in Smarter Planet grants to 11 organizations around the world. The IBM Centennial Grants are both monetary and in-kind awards up to US$100,000 each and fund innovative projects in areas such as healthcare, energy and food safety.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IT analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked IBM Technology Services number one in market share as measured by revenue in its new report, Worldwide Services 2010 Vendor Analysis: Revenue Performance of the Top 10.
IBM today announced second-quarter 2011 diluted earnings of $3.00 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $2.61 per share in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 15 percent. Operating (non-GAAP) diluted earnings were $3.09 per share, compared with operating diluted earnings of $2.62 per share in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 18 percent.
IBM today announced a new cloud-based Web analytics and digital marketing suite designed to help organizations automate online marketing campaigns across all online channels, such as web sites, social media networks, and mobile phones.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Coriell Institute for Medical Research, the largest biobank of living human cells, is using IBM technology to advance its research of human genetic disease and to more efficiently maintain its massive collection of biological resources.
TOKYO, July 14, 2011 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a broad expansion of its cloud computing services for customers in Japan and in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Japan and a dedicated data center for LotusLive, IBM's cloud collaboration service.
