IBM launches research centre for SMEs
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Information technology (IT) giant IBM is ready to grab more shares in the IT related market of China&#39;s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with more products at affordable prices.
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To move the blade server market from the enterprise to small and midsize businesses, IBM on Friday unveiled a new BladeCenter chassis and new blade solutions for SMBs.
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InfoWorld - IBM Corp. is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses.
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IBM has released a new low-cost eServer BladeCenter chassis and a unique set of &quot;business-in-a-box&quot; solutions to help lower the cost and speed the time it takes for SMBs to purchase, deploy, and implement blade servers.
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InfoWorld - IBM showed off research efforts in a number of areas, including SOA, wikis, and mashups, at its IBM Silicon Valley Lab on Wednesday afternoon.
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IBM is realigning elements of its sales organization to better reach small-to-medium-sized businesses.
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IBM on Friday unveiled its lowest-priced-ever BladeCenter chassis and a series of ready-to-go solutions, dubbed &quot;business-in-a-box&quot; to push blades deeper into small- and mid-sized businesses (SMB).
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IBM has launched a network to harness the power of idle computers around the world. It&#39;s trying to create one massive PC to help out in scientific research in what could become the world&#39;s largest public computing grid.
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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.
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IBM today announced that it is making its first computing system based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) generally available on a global basis, with early adopters such as University of Manchester, RapidMind, Inc.
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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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IBM will offer a range of new services to help industrial firms respond to retail and government pressure to implement radio-frequency identification.
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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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At the SC2004 conferenceÂ  last week, IBM unveiled plans to build a commercial version of its Blue Gene supercomputer intended for businesses and for a number of scientific and research markets.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM showed off research efforts in a number of areas, including SOA, wikis, and mashups, at its IBM Silicon Valley Lab on Wednesday afternoon. Technologies on display leveraged concepts like social networking, collaboration, and Web 2.0. Security and healthcare systems also were on display. The 26 projects viewed were in various stages of development, ranging from incubation to actual availability. In the SOA area, IBM's Request Driven Provisioning technology provides a framework to offer business services in an SOA. It combines automated systems with business processes for the purpose of end-to-end IT service delivery. Services are provisioned based on user requirements, said Willy Chiu, IBM vice president for High Performance On Demand Solutions in the company's Software Group. "What we're doing is allowing a business unit to define its requirements for a complete SOA system that would have taken months to install and now it takes hours," said Chiu. The technology is available as a service offering that leverages IBM's WebSphere, Tivoli, Rational, and other product lines. DB2 provides for data storage. Also in SOA, IBM touted Sonoma, which is a Web-based capacity planning tool. To be offered through a Saas (software as a service) model, it will enable customers to size SOA-based workloads to meet future performance and scalability requirements. Sonoma is the latest version of the company's OPERA (On Demand Performance Advisor) tool for capacity planning. Sonoma serves a subset of RDP for SOA planning only and is configured as a Web service, Chiu said. He stressed that IBM was not in the application space. "Our job is to enable applications," said Chiu. IBM brought customer Jeremy King, eBay's vice president of engineering and application architecture, onstage to tout eBayâs collaboration with IBM. Noting eBay's 212,000,000 registered users and its massive infrastructure, King said that if eBay were a country, it would be the world's fifth largest, behind China, India, the United States, and Indonesia. King cited WebSphere as being of particular usefulness at eBay. "In the end, what really made the difference was IBM's understanding of the service that we would need," King said. After discussions by IBM executives, attendees were free to check out the various research efforts. Projects demonstrated under the umbrella of social networking, collaboration, and Web 2.0 included: Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Information Factory, a portal-based system for organizing feedback from customers. Wikis, blogs, social networking, and tagging tools are used to accelerate collaboration. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Koala, a social engineering effort allowing non-programmers to easily automate processes on the Web in a collaborative environment using wiki-like collaborative authoring and semantic Web annotation. Reusable procedures can be developed and reused by recording keystrokes and clicks as a user completes a task. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Fringe, transforming IBM's internal directory into a corporate social networking site. Activities and relationships can be organized around people and experiments with the application of social networking and tagging principles. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  QEDwiki (quick and easily done wiki), an enterprise mashup tool that makes it easy for non-technical persons to build Web-based applications that blend company data with outside Web services. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Mashups for the Enterprise, which are applications developed to solve a situational business problem by integrating Internet/intranet data and services using lightweight Web 2.0 technologies. IBM Travel Maps is an example of this concept. In the category of Information On-Demand, IBM showed the following technologies: Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Unified WebClient for IBM Content Management, leveraging technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Dojo and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to provide a unified, visually appealing client for IBM Content Management offerings. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Omnifind Yahoo! Edition, an enterprise search product intended to help eliminate financial and technology barriers to intranet and Web search. It features Web search services powered by Yahoo. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Business Insights Workbench, identifying trends and patterns from a customer's internal and external content using advanced text analytics on structured and unstructured information. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Intelligent Document Gateway, providing customized business logic in support of document-centric business processes. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  ShapeWriter, providing a new way of writing text and sending commands on computing and communications devices. It uses multi-channel pattern recognition and lexical information to interpret a user's hand drawing on a graphical keyboard. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, which uses autonomic policy-based protocols to manage heterogeneous storage infrastructures from a single point of control. In the security arena, IBM showed: Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Smart Surveillance System, for data analysis of video sequences. Benefits include real-time alarms to anticipate incidents by identifying suspicious behaviors as well as enhanced forensic capabilities and situational awareness of a location. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  IDemix, or IBM Identity Mixer, which masks information on the Web by making transactions anonymous. Digital identities are hidden, and an additional layer of protection is provided against identity theft. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Assured eXecution Environment, preserving the integrity of personal computers by ensuring that only approved programs are executed. Unwanted automated changes to system configurations also are prevented. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Cancelable Bometrics, which uses an algorithm to protect against theft of biometric data such as a fingerprint. The actual fingerprint is concealed by using a distorted version of it. Consumer technologies included: Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Virtual Worlds, enhancing the retail customer experience using virtual 3D technologies. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  FonePal, using cross-device integration to solve voice menu navigation problems. Instant messaging is used to deliver a visual version of a phone menu to a computer screen. A user could then scan choices and make a selection instead of sifting through menus. Â·Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  MASTOR, or Multilngual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator, providing bidirectional speech-to-speech translation for communication in different languages. Persons not speaking the same language could communicate.
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IBM on Monday will unveil free developer resources for Cloudscape, a small-footprint, Java-based database that the company recently contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project.
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IBM and APC have joined forces to build pre-engineered data centers aimed at small and medium-sized businesses that need facilities in the 500- to 1000-square-foot range.