IBM, University of Florida Team Up on Smart Devices
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IBM and the University of Florida are working on technology that lets doctors remotely monitor patient health.
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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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IBM and chip design firm Mediatek are collaborating on ultra-fast chip sets for the consumer market.
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It looks like a partnership between AMD, IBM, Sony and Toshiba has produced a new technology which allows faster transistor speeds with the same energy consumption.
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Companies are developing MRAM, which could be used in portable electronic devices.
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IBM Corp., which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property.
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Technology that can converge different wireless gadgets into a single device is discussed at a conference.
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IBM and top scientific research  organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to  tap the unused power of millions of computers and help solve  complex social problems.
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Technology giants IBM and Hewlett-Packard are injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into radio-frequency identification technology, which aims to advance the tracking of items from ho-hum bar codes to smart tags packed with data.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.
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IBM is set to begin offering a range of new services designed to bring the benefits of radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems to industrial firms and mid-size businesses.
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IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have tacked a three-year extension onto their December 2002 collaboration agreement that could see the two companies work on chip-making technologies based on a 32-nanometer process.
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Shared research produces fast, tiny memory ideal for consumer devices.
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IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified communications market.Through the partnership, announced in Boston at the Fall VON conference Tuesday, Alcatel-Lucent is offering integration of its OmniTouch audioconferencing feature into IBM Lotus Sametime, the companies said.Customers that have both Alcatel-Lucent&#39;s OmniTouch Unified Communication software and IBM&#39;s Lotus Sametime product can take advantage of the new offering, which will be available in the next few weeks on IBM&#39;s Web site for Sametime partner applications.The move is the first time IBM and Alcatel-Lucent have collaborated on unified communications, though IBM counts other networking providers -- such as Cisco Systems, Avaya, and Nortel Networks -- as partners in this market.IBM is positioning itself as an open-standards alternative to&#160;unified communications offerings from Microsoft, which made a big splash earlier this month in San Francisco when it&#160;launched Office Communications Server, the linchpin of its unified communications strategy. Microsoft also has cozied up to telecommunications companies, as well as&#160;networking and wireless handset providers to push its products in this market.The deal announced Tuesday calls for Alcatel-Lucent and IBM to offer the OmniTouch My Teamwork for Lotus Sametime, a free plug-in that provides the ability to click-to-conference directly from both Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes, as well as to provide audioconference scheduling and management from Lotus Sametime&#39;s Web conferencing feature.Akiba Saeedi, an IBM program director for unified communications and collaboration, said that&#160;IBM two years ago revamped Sametime&#160;as not only an application, but also a platform on which partners can build new software for unified communications. The company&#39;s open-standards architecture is designed to make it easy for partners such as Alcatel to build software that can plug-and-play directly into the product, she said.Other companies that have built unified communications plug-ins for Sametime include Cisco and Avaya, which have both built click-to-call features for Sametime, and Polycom and Radvision, which also offer audio- and videoconferencing add-ons to Sametime.Microsoft also has tapped some of these same companies to support its Office Communications Server. However, Saeedi said that Microsoft also has built audio and video features into its platform that compete with offerings from its partners. Taking a different tack, IBM wants partners to add value to Sametime and does not plan to build features that compete with plug-ins they provide, she said.
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New York: The US-based software major IBM, along with representatives of the world&#39;s leading science, education and philanthropic outfits, has launched a global effort aimed at harnessing the vast computing power of individuals and business computers and
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IBM said the strategy is to enable companies to centrally manage business applications and tools across employee devices. That should help companies cut IT support costs as well as build work
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InfoWorld - IBM and Cisco will announce today at the Spring 2007 VoiceCon conference in Orlando, Florida, a joint effort to create an industrywide unified communications and collaboration platform.