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IBM tackling water issues globally

IBM tackling water issues globally

By Tom Raftery on July 3, 2013

Water, water everywhere… Water is becoming scarce resource globally – even more-so in rapidly growing urban environments.In fact, according to the UN, water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population growth in the last century. – See more at: http://www.unwater.org/statistics_use.html#sthash.SVRxbpoE.dpuf Also, increased droughts, and flash floods are not helping matters. […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, smarter planet, water | 3 Responses

Smarter Computing: An Agenda For (Re)Packaging IBM Software and Systems in the Age of The Cloud.

Smarter Computing: An Agenda For (Re)Packaging IBM Software and Systems in the Age of The Cloud.

By James Governor on March 24, 2011

Late last year IBM Software Group (SWG) “acquired” IBM Systems and Technology (STG) group – with software head honcho Steve Mills taking over management of the combined group. The move had been coming for a while, and the parallels with Oracle’s takeover of Sun Microsystems last year are clear. The market is showing a new […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, smarter planet, STG, SWG, ux

Innovation at the IBM Smarter Industries Symposium

Innovation at the IBM Smarter Industries Symposium

By Tom Raftery on November 15, 2010

Photo credit Tom Raftery I attended the inaugural IBM Smarter industries Symposium recently and the major talking point that emerged from it was Innovation. The event was a nice mix of presentations by IBMers, customers and “breakout exchanges” with a healthy mix of both. Almost all of the speakers talked about the increasing complexity of […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 1-800flowers, collaboration, ibm, ibm smarter industries symposium, ibmsym, innovation, oncor, smarter planet, social business, social commerce

IBM Impact: Saturday night thoughts

IBM Impact: Saturday night thoughts

By James Governor on May 1, 2010

I am in Las Vegas for IBM Impact 2010– Big Blue’s business alignment/middleware event. Why am I missing a bank holiday weekend for a tech show? Because this is one of the most important events of the year- if you’re an enterprisey geek, that is. IBM is a major Redmonk client, and I have been […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ibm, IBM Impact 2010, impact, middleware, MQSeries, redmonk, smarter planet, WebSphereMQ

Rich Lechner talks about Smart Buildings and a Smarter Urban Infrastructure

Rich Lechner talks about Smart Buildings and a Smarter Urban Infrastructure

By Tom Raftery on March 23, 2010

I had a great chat about Smart Buildings the other day with IBM’s VP Energy and Environment, Rich Lechner. Why are smart buildings important? Well, as Rich says, in the US buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted. When you combine that with […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged buildings, Energy, Greenhouse gas, ibm, smart buildings, Smart Planet, smarter planet, smarter urban infrastructure

IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

By Tom Raftery on November 27, 2009

I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Connect09, ibm, SAFE, smarter planet, Sustainability, water

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