The month of November at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. I was particularly pleased to see IBM put it's money where it's mouth is with respect to innovation. The company announced it's intention to invest $100 million in innovation ideas that were generated by InnovationJam, an unprecedented experiment in online collaborative innovation held earlier this year. The result could lead to new growth areas. Here are all the announcements made by the company during the month. The complete index of prior IBM Happenings is here.
Energy provider signs $29 million contract IBM has signed a 2.5-year, $29 million consulting contract to streamline Southern Company's financial, supply chain and work management operations.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20584.wss
Migration program targets HP customer base The new migration programs allow IBM Business Partners to extend discounts of up to 25 percent on license fees when migrating customers from Mercury software to IBM.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20586.wss
IBM unleashes new hybrid supercomputers
IBM's new System Cluster 1350, with its capability to scale up to 1,024 nodes, is a primary choice for building supercomputing solutions.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20587.wss
NCAR installs 12-Teraflop supercomputer
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has installed a new IBM supercomputer known as blueice that nearly triples the center's sustained computing capacity.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20574.wss
IBM introduces surveillance product
IBM's new Digital Video Surveillance product includes a first-of-a-kind security technology created by IBM Research, known as the Smart Surveillance System.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20583.wss
IBM launches services initiative in China Chairman, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano launched a major initiative to bring IBM's global information technology services expertise and capabilities to China.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20607.wss
IBM invests $100 million in innovation ideas IBM will invest $100 million to pursue new businesses generated by InnovationJam, an unprecedented experiment in collaborative innovation held earlier this year.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20605.wss
IBM opens Centre of Excellence for Oil & Gas IBM's Centre of Excellence for Oil & Gas in Norway will be the hub for IBM's oil and gas-related activities in Northeast Europe, Russia and the Middle East.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20624.wss
IBM, Dept. of Energy to collaborate on supercomputing The U.S. Department of Energy and IBM will share the cost of a five-year,
$58 million R&D effort to further develop supercomputer technology http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20621.wss
Grupo Modelo brews with IBM SOA, services IBM is providing services and employing SOA to integrate Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo's home-developed applications, creating interfaces with SAP, i2 and J.D.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20603.wss
IBM to acquire Consul
This acquisition strengthens IBM's Service Management initiative by adding key data monitoring and auditing capabilities across mainframe and distributed environments.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20716.wss
IBM to acquire Vallent
Vallent is a leading supplier of network performance monitoring and service management software for wireless service providers worldwide.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20682.wss
IBM drives evolution of software delivery IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0 products will help teams better design, deploy and manage the delivery of software and systems architectures.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20719.wss
AccuWeather selects IBM's QEDWiki
AccuWeather will deliver mission-critical weather information via IBM's QEDWiki enterprise mashup maker, to businesses and markets worldwide.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20731.wss
IBM introduces telecom security solution IBM's Telecom Core Infrastructure Security Solution monitors and manages not only the health of network but the traffic itself, through a single, integrated system.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20706.wss
IBM to develop custom chips for ASTRON
IBM will create high performance analogue and mixed signal processing chips to be used in thousands of antennas as part of ASTRON's prototype radio telescope.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20724.wss
IBM adds delivery center in China
IBM's new Global Delivery Center in Chengdu will provide multi-lingual application development and maintenance services to clients globally.
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20680.wss
Complete index of IBM Happenings