IBM Opens Calgary Oil Sands Centre of Excellence
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Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its US $2.6 million Oil Sands Centre of Excellence in Calgary, which aims to help petroleum producers test and use new technologies that will lower costs and make oil recovery easier, more efficient, and more intelligent.
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IBMÂ is looking to add real-time capabilities to its data integration software by buying Canadian firm DataMirrorÂ for about C$170 million(US$162.3 million).
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IBM launched its European Venture Capital Center in Dublin, the first such center outside of the company's corporate offices in Menlo Park, California.
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Lesson 1: radioactive decay and you IBM plans to open a nuclear consultancy center in France to take advantage of the increased competition in a newly-opened European energy market.â¦
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Calgary Health Region's 24,000 employees will have greater access to personal human resources information, via new IBM (NYSE: IBM) self-service kiosks installed in the Region's hospitals, clinics and offices.  IBM worked closely with the Region to design a kiosk to best meet their needs.
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Imperial Oil has confirmed a published report that it will move its head office to Calgary from Toronto. The move will reportedly allow the company to be closer to its projects in Alberta.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM launched its European Venture Capital Center in Dublin, the first such center outside of the company's corporate offices in Menlo Park, California. The center will be a place where IBM helps unite European startup companies with venture-capital firms and also where IBM can share some of its experiences with startups. Often small companies have found investors but lack the expertise to globalize and scale their offerings, said Nick Donofrio, IBM's executive vice president for innovation and technology, speaking during a press conference in Dublin. "We have those skills," he said. IBM will share such expertise with startups that participate in the center through events including subject-specific round tables or large conferences, such as one that IBM held in New York last week. Encouraging the success of emerging businesses ensures that IBM has strong partners to add to its ecosystem into the future, he said. IBM does not intend to invest in any of the participating companies directly but could in rare cases consider buying a company that might be developing technology fundamental to IBM's business, Donofrio said. IBM chose to place the center in Ireland in part due to its 50 year history in the country but also because of other factors that make it an ideal location. Ireland has a strong academic environment, government support for emerging technology companies, a culture of entrepreneurship and a presence of many global companies, said Deborah Magid, director of strategic alliances, software strategy for IBM Venture Capital Group. She couldn't say how many people the new center might employ but added that existing IBM staff would likely contribute to the center's efforts. IBM is alsoÂ opening an Innovation CenterÂ in Dublin, aimed at helping local software developers test and build products. In July,Â IBM said it was investingÂ â¬46 million ($59 million) and hiring 300 workers in Dublin. The new Venture Capital Center and Innovation Center are part of that ongoing investment. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Imperial Oil Ltd. said it will relocate its head office to Calgary from Toronto, affecting 1,500 employees. About 500 workers will be ``subject to relocation,&#39;&#39; the company said in a CNW statement.
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IBM on Monday launched a new, cheaper line of computer servers designed for smaller businesses, with production at the plant here.
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IBM on Thursday opened an expanded research center in China to bulk up its technology portfolio for midsize businesses worldwide. The SMB Innovation Center was added to the company&#39;s research lab in Beijing
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CALGARY - Calgary&#39;s already sizzling business community has scooped its biggest prize yet with the move from Toronto of Imperial Oil Ltd.
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This morning, IBM, in conjunction with Vivendi game developer High Moon Studios and Canadian high-performance developer RapidMind,  launched a coast-to-coast event to interest developers into building a new gaming platform around the Cell.
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IBM today announced new virtual resources to help business partners more quickly build and deploy on demand business applications tailored to meet customer requirements across all vertical industries.
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Meanwhile, Dell plants some trees... IBM has beefed up its data output while apparently watching its carbon footprint step by adding a new $86m "green data centre" space to its Boulder site in Colorado, USA.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - It may be too early to talk plug-and-play but IBMÂ believes it can help businesses of all sizes easily cluster their servers to handle intensive computing workloads. Leveraging its expertise in high-end computing and vertical industry applications, IBM has launched several initiatives to allow small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) and the departments of large enterprises to integrate their servers -- from as few as two to many thousands -- into computing clusters designed for high-performance computing tasks, the company said Wednesday. Initially targeted at the businesses in the life sciences, computer-aided engineering, and finance sectors, IBM will offer preconfigured "snap-together" cluster systems for customers using the company's computers and storage devices. The systems are designed to run on Linux and Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 operating systems and will include networking technology from companies such as Cisco Systems. The collaboration with Microsoft will allow businesses to use parallel processing on clusters to free up client machines from long-running applications. ISVs (independent software vendors) and business partners will receive tools to help them introduce IBM's cluster systems. These include sizing guides with predefined cluster configurations for simple ordering and installation. IBM business partners have access to the company's Cluster Enablement Team for technical questions and advice. For customers, software vendors and business partners running Microsoft cluster servers, IBM has four new benchmarking facilities in Poughkeepsie, New York, Raleigh, North Carolina, Beaverton, Oregon and Montpelier, France. These centers join a network of global Linux benchmark centers. To attract businesses interested in computing clusters, IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers will give them access to more than 20,000 processors to test the technology for themselves. IBM offers a range of products that support computing clusters, including its System x, System p and BladeCenter servers, as well as the IBM System Storage and IBM System Cluster 1350.
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(InfoWorld) - Red Hat, in collaboration with IBM, opened a support and research facility in Vrsac, Serbia, to serve customers in South Eastern Europe. The center will be managed by VDEL, an IT services distribution company, and will provide support, development and educational services to Red Hat customers, partners and developers in the region. IBM will offer the center access to its technologies and knowledge base so that in the future the center can also support IBM's open source products. The companies will use the center to promote their security offerings since they have both earned security certificates for Common Criteria 4+, an international set of guidelines that companies can use to evaluate IT security. Red Hat and IBM also expect that the center will help stimulate the development and implementation of open source software in Serbia, boost educational programs in the sciences through IT innovations and help bridge the digital gap by developing programs supporting digital literacy in schools and lower income communities. The center is the result of an initiative launched in 2005 by the University of Belgrade to create an incubator for new technologies. That resulted in IBM, Red Hat and VDEL opening a Linux innovation and education center at the university which offered education, training and certification on Red Hat and IBM technologies. The center trained potential workers for the new support center launched on Monday. The city of Vrsac provided infrastructure and facilities for the center. Red Hat chose Vrsac for its infrastructure, location, and multiethnic and multicultural environment. The growth potential of the Serbian market and nearby regions was also an attraction, it said.
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European oil giants Royal Dutch/Shell and Total are leading the chase to buy the Canadian gas company First Calgary.