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Galveston National Labs Employs IBM Software to Help Fight Infectious Disease
February 23, 2010 –In the fight against emerging infectious diseases, The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), one of two National Institutes of Health funded bio-containment laboratories in the United States, is benefiting from IBM software to ensure the optimal performance of all equipment functioning within its facility. The GNL, which is dedicated to the study and prevention of emerging infectious diseases, will use IBM Maximo Asset Management Software to help automate, manage and ensure the performance of its 3,000 operating assets in one of the world's most complex medical research environments.
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IBM touts Smarter Buildings push
February 23, 2010 – IBM is hoping to use technology to create greener, smarter buildings. Big Blue announced Monday that it will team up with partners and customers to venture into the next phase of its Smarter Planet initiative: Smarter Buildings. The goal is to help buildings, manufacturing plants, and other facilities consume less energy and water and make them easier to operate.
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TVA Goes Live With IBM Software to Streamline Fleet Operations
February 23, 2010 – The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has initiated fleet-wide use of IBM software solutions to help it achieve asset-management improvements across all its power facilities, including fossil, hydro, nuclear, wind along with supporting Business Units such as Power Systems Operations, Facilities and the Customer Support & Repair Organization.
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IBM Launches New Era of Smarter Buildings
February 22, 2010 – IBM today announced it is creating smarter buildings, offices, and urban infrastructure worldwide. With intelligence embedded into the physical assets of an organization, IBM is helping clients create a command center to manage not only their data center and IT design, but also the physical assets as diverse as water mains, office equipment, door locks, printers, heating systems and fire hydrants.
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IBM Software to Help Improve the Sewer Infrastructure in California's Capital City
February 10, 2010 – IBM announced today it is working with two wastewater agencies in Sacramento, California to help identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they impact the region's one million residents.
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Software tool aids building managers in creating facility assessments
February 10, 2010 – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif., had been using a hodge-podge of systems, including spreadsheets and databases, to maintain facility condition information and generate reports to meet federal government funding requirements. The lab spans 203 acres and consists of 107 buildings, including the Advanced Light Source, a soccer-field-sized accelerator complex; the Center for Beam Physics; the National Center for Electron Microscopy; cancer research labs and many other science buildings.
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Maximo Spatial Release 7.1.1 Offers Expanded Geospatial Analysis Capabilities
January 8, 2010 – IBM Maximo Spatial is bundled with the Maximo Utilities solution and also available as an add-on option for IBM’s other industry solutions. Maximo Spatial integrates IBM Maximo and ESRI ArcGIS Server, and ex-tends their combined capability with additional functions. Release 7.1.1 has numerous functional extensions and upgrades including support for multiple geo-databases, expanded interoperability with different GIS platforms, and several pragmatic geospatial query and display capabilities.
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IBM overhauls software channel strategy
December 11, 2009 – IBM is in the final stages of restructuring its software channel to align partners to specific brands and product pillars. Under the revised model, partners will need to invest in deep and specific sales and technical skills in order to sell licensing for any of the vendor’s five overarching software brands: Tivoli, Lotus, Rational, WebSphere and DB2. Previously, partners were able to sell licences across all brands.
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IBM tapped for city-wide capital improvement projects in Chesapeake, Va.
December 7, 2009 – IBM and the City of Chesapeake, VA, today announced a partnership to build more intelligent systems to better serve its more than 200,000 residents as part of a city-wide capital improvement project. The use of IBM technology will enhance services delivered to the public ranging from maintenance and operations of traffic signals and water systems to the management of the City's Fire and Police departments. As a result of these efforts, the City of Chesapeake is consistently improving the quality of life for its citizens.
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IBM wires trucks, water lines in smarter city bid
December 7, 2009 – Making a city "smarter" starts with networked hardware, says IBM. That is, fire trucks, waste water lines, and buildings. The city of Chesapeake, Va., has contracted with IBM to modernize the city's public works and utilities infrastructure, touching everything from its water system to its fire department.
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District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority to automate water and sewer system and create business intelligence systems, with help from IBM
November 19, 2009 – IBM and the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) are working together to modernize the management of the aging water and sewer infrastructure hidden beneath the nation’s capital. The sprawling infrastructure includes hundreds of thousands of assets such as water distribution pipes, valves, public fire hydrants, collection pipes, man holes and water meters.
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IBM Helps the Lower Colorado River Authority Improve Water and Energy Management in Central and South Texas
November 13, 2009 – IBM today announced the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is using IBM software to reduce the complexity and costs of managing the utility's resources and services, which span across more than 36,800 square miles and 58 counties in Central and South Texas, serving more than 2.2 million residents.
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Australian utility company signs agreement with IBM
November 13, 2009 – IT company IBM said today that it has signed an agreement with Australia's Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation, a multi-utility provider, to help design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to its customers more efficiently.
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IBM Live webcast: What’s New in November for CCMDB?
Tivoli is planning exciting announcements in November regarding its core Service Request Management products. Timed to follow closely on those announcements, this webcast will feature IBM Product Managers Rich Johnston and Tina Cottier with information on enhancements to Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). Come hear about the new TADDM integrations with ITM or discovery and virtualization and storage discovery - plus many more great enhancement. Hear about new graphical capability surrounding topology and process viewing, automatic impact analysis and much more.
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Fukuoka will use IBM software to increase and improve water supply
Using an asset management system based on IBM’s Maximo software, the Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency will be able to monitor the conditions of facilities assets at the water treatment plant and the Seawater Desalination Center when the system goes live in April 2010. Assets include electric equipment, engineering and construction devices, pipelines and water pumps.
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