IBM on Monday announced plans to deploy an internal cloud computing environment that will make more than a petabyte of information—the equivalent of 100 times the content of the Library of Congress—instantly available to employees under a project called Blue Insight. IBM said it also plans to make the service’s architecture, dubbed IBM Smart Analytics Cloud—available to customers.
Cloud computing makes it easier for those in the education industry, including students, faculty and administrators, to gain immediate access to a wide range of new educational resources and research applications and tools. The IBM Cloud Academy will advance awareness and adoption of cloud computing, including best practices for education and research institutions.
Once you move your core applications into a cloud-type scenario, all you really have as an interface is a Web browser, which makes access control and password management and identity management incredibly important. You’re not securing pieces or chunks of the network anymore. You’re securing the end user—how they access the network and what they do once they’re on. You’re really entrusting the provider with a lot—make sure that they can provide best practices for access management and identity management.
IBM announced Thursday that it will build a cloud computing platform in the city of Dongying as a model for how local government and businesses can modernize in China. Chinese economic stimulus funds are fueling the project, which is expected to be duplicated in other cities.
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Rachel Chalmers, an analyst at research firm 451 Group in San Francisco, says there’s a growing need for companies to “harness their big data” and mine the information that they have. Companies also need to better understand how their IT infrastructures function for maintenance and security reasons, she adds. “These are traditionally intractable problems for the enterprise,” she says.
Keynote by sf author and design critic Bruce Sterling, “At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry”. He talks about its history, the cool side, the dark side and gives the industry some pointers to be successful.
Recorded at the Layar Launch Event on August 17th in Amsterdam where the Layar Reality Browser was launched for the world. See layar.com
Since its debut in 1993, the TOP500 Supercomputer List has ranked the most powerful systems in the world, but IBM was nowhere to be found on that first list that year. Yet, by November 1995, IBM had produced three of the top ten supercomputers on the list, more than any other company.
We recognize the interdependency between access to online services, economic development and the quality of life. By working with IBM, we can build classrooms to serve as technology learning centers for underserved broadband communities and ultimately provide a low cost entry point for residential subscribers by using cloud computing services.
Supported by government funding, the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network is partnering with IBM on a grass roots project called CBO Connect to provide desktop computing to over 200 sites nationwide. The CBO Connect is a coalition of community based organizations consisting of non-profits, schools and libraries where visitors have access to 21st century classrooms that offer desktop cloud computing, interactive video conferencing for distance learning, video distribution system with digital signage, and other classroom and administrative services.
