ConnectIn 2015: IBM shows off cloud, analytics, mobile, social tech innovations

IBM showcased its latest innovations designed to help companies drive growth and productivity using cloud, analytics, mobile and social technologies at ConnectIn 2015, held at the IBM Campus in Bangalore. Some of the new innovations include: Response in an Emergency – an analytical solution framework for emergency management comprising of predictive models, helping in optimum allocation of resources. The solution enables the emergency workers with a collaborative and decision management system to mitigate the risks involved. [caption id=“attachment_1967903” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Image: AFP[/caption] IBM’s personalised learning on cloud combines predictive analytics, and best practices to provide comprehensive guidance for each student. Apatani – an mHealth solution for community health workers – provides near-real time citizen health & logistics data hence drastically reducing the response time during public health emergencies; Digital Locker will provide dedicated personal storage space, linked to each resident’s Aadhaar number. The programme aims to enable citizens to share e-documents with government agencies thus eliminating the need for hard copies of notarized documents. By sharing these documents through registered repositories, it will ensure authenticity of documents online, thus eliminating fraud and loss of important certificates and documents. Auto Dx, a business-to-business (B2B) cloud-based network, accelerates the movement of data and reducing transaction costs by up to 80 percent. This solution eliminate inefficiencies by standardising, automating and accelerating the exchange of transactional data through the cloud. Accelerating Enterprise in the Cloud – the OpenPOWER Platform: The OpenPOWER Consortium is an industry body formed with the goal to create an open ecosystem and enable data centres to rethink their approach to technology. Some of the OpenPOWER innovations are: CAPI that shows how having a coherent accelerator attached to a high end processor can boost application throughput and yet make programming simpler for an end user; and Espresso Demo – IBM in partnership with NVIDIA released its first Open Power Server System S824L with 2 Tesla K40 GPU cards for heterogeneous computing. These systems can accelerate the performance of big data/HPC workloads in the order of 8-10X. This demo would cover Power8 & GPU acceleration on a popular machine learning algorithm used in big data analytics. “Businesses have realised that institutionalising innovation is key for creating a competitive edge and sustaining leadership. Organisations in India, have started embracing technology to build innovative business models to enhance consumer experiences,” said Kaushik Bhaskar, Vice President, India Software Labs, IBM India. “Augmenting existing competencies across our labs around the new technologies is a result of this paradigm shift.”