IBM has unveiled new software and services to help clients effectively gain competitive insight, optimise infrastructure and manage resources to address Internet-scale data.
The new offerings allow organisations to integrate and analyse tens-of-petabytes of data in its native format and gain critical intelligence in sub-second response times.
IBM has announced a $100m investment for continued research on technologies and services that will enable clients to manage and exploit data as it continues to grow in diversity, speed and volume.
The new analytics capabilities pioneered by IBM Research will enable chief information officers (CIOs) to construct specific, fact-based financial and business models for their IT operations, the company claimed.
IBM has expanded its portfolio in analytics with the addition of new, patented software capabilities to analyse massive volumes of streaming data with sub-millisecond response times and Hadoop-based analytics software to offer scalable storage to handle tens-of-petabytes level data.
Further, the 20 new services offerings, featuring patented analytical tools for business and IT professionals will infuse predictive analytics throughout their IT operations.
The new services that help clients with analytics include: cloud workload analysis; server and storage; data centre lifecycle cost analysis tool; and security analytic services.
IBM software and systems senior vice-president and group executive Steve Mills said the volume and velocity of information is generated at a record pace, which is magnified by new forms of data coming from social networking and the explosion of mobile devices.
"Through our extensive capabilities in business and technology expertise, IBM is best positioned to help clients not only extract meaningful insight, but enable them respond at the same rate at which the data arrives," Mills said.
