IBM launches private business analytics cloud

IBM on Monday is expected to unveil Blue Insight, a massive business analytics cloud that will hold more than a petabyte of data. This internal cloud computing environment will be the basis for future external services.

Internally, IBM's effort is dubbed Blue Insight, a business analytics cloud that will give 200,000 employees access to key corporate data around the world. Blue Insight will suck in data from 100 different data stores and warehouses. The data will then be dished out to salespeople and developers.

According to IBM, Blue Insight is a showcase of the "eat your own dog food" mantra. The system is built using Cognos, IBM's business intelligence software, and hardware systems such as System Z, the company's mainframe (right).

Going forward, IBM said it will add structured and unstructured data to Blue Insight. Some of this data will include revenue forecasts and sales quotas, product breakdowns, queries from real-time data and inventory levels and defects.

Read more of "IBM launches private business analytics cloud; Eyes 'easily consumable' BI for the masses" at ZDNet.

[luke_marsh]

I think IBM now needs to mature on this wave of innovation they're doing well with their concept of setting up infrastructure. A year or so from now I can see after getting their foot through the industrial door some more they will need more projects to get their new teeth into but for now things need to mature thats my guess.

[rafacst]

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[ITcomposer]

Just a quickie question, does IBM still manufacture servers? I seem to be under the impression that a few years ago they sold their pc Building operations to LENOVO, did that include their server division as well?

IBM continues to manufacture servers with 2 proprietary chip lines. The P-series uses PowerPC chips and usually runs AIX, AS/400, and Linux. The Z-series (aka mainframe) uses z-series chips and runs a number of OS's including z/OS, z/Linux, VM, and CMS.

There is also a line of Intel/AMD servers they label as X-series. These run the usual Windows and Linux operating system.

They exited the personal computer and laptop business when they sold it to Lenovo. This line of business didn't have the margins they are interested in.

[Nuance-Enterprise]

This marks a new era in the way businesses access, analyze and share data and information. The article points out that IBM as well as its customers will benefit from the Cloud, but IBM?s thousands of business partners will also be able to leverage the Cloud, creating an ecosystem that, although ?private,? has the potential to be much larger than most ?public? clouds. It may take months or even years to fully understand the impact of this paradigm shift.

[Nuance-Enterprise]

This marks a new era in the way businesses access, analyze and share data and information. The article points out that IBM as well as its customers will benefit from the Cloud, but IBM?s thousands of business partners will also be able to leverage the Cloud, creating an ecosystem that, although ?private,? has the potential to be much larger than most ?public? clouds. It may take months or even years to fully understand the impact of this paradigm shift.