Learn how IBM can help you optimize individual resources and systems, including buildings, energy use, operations, public safety, transportation and water, while facilitating virtually seamless cross-departmental integration. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
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The document discusses the Intelligent Operations Center, which provides a centralized monitoring system for venues like stadiums, cruise ships, and theaters. It allows operators to track metrics like attendance, public safety, transportation, and resource usage. The system uses sensors, historical data, and predictive analytics to monitor events, detect issues, and optimize operations. It provides a dashboard and automated procedures to help operators resolve problems and improve traffic flow.
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Few days ago I gave a talk about software architectures. My goal was to explain as easy as possible the main ideas behind the most popular software architectures like the client-server model, the 3-tier and multi-tier layered models, the idea behind SOA architecture and cloud computing, and few widely used architectural patterns like MVC (Model-View-Controller), MVP (Model-View-Presenter), PAC (Presentation Abstraction Control), MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). In my talk I explain that MVC, MVP and MVVM are not necessary bound to any particular architectural model like client-server, 3-tier of SOA. MVC, MVP and MVVM are architectural principles applicable when we need to separate the presentation (UI), the data model and the presentation logic.
Additionally I made an overview of the popular architectural principals IoC (Inversion of Control) and DI (Dependency Injection) and give examples how to build your own Inversion of Control (IoC) container.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
The document discusses the Intelligent Operations Center, which provides a centralized monitoring system for venues like stadiums, cruise ships, and theaters. It allows operators to track metrics like attendance, public safety, transportation, and resource usage. The system uses sensors, historical data, and predictive analytics to monitor events, detect issues, and optimize operations. It provides a dashboard and automated procedures to help operators resolve problems and improve traffic flow.
Architectural Patterns and Software Architectures: Client-Server, Multi-Tier,...Svetlin Nakov
Few days ago I gave a talk about software architectures. My goal was to explain as easy as possible the main ideas behind the most popular software architectures like the client-server model, the 3-tier and multi-tier layered models, the idea behind SOA architecture and cloud computing, and few widely used architectural patterns like MVC (Model-View-Controller), MVP (Model-View-Presenter), PAC (Presentation Abstraction Control), MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel). In my talk I explain that MVC, MVP and MVVM are not necessary bound to any particular architectural model like client-server, 3-tier of SOA. MVC, MVP and MVVM are architectural principles applicable when we need to separate the presentation (UI), the data model and the presentation logic.
Additionally I made an overview of the popular architectural principals IoC (Inversion of Control) and DI (Dependency Injection) and give examples how to build your own Inversion of Control (IoC) container.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741926/IBM-System-x3650-M4
Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210740347/IBM-System-x3250-M3
Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210734237/A-Comparison-of-PowerVM-and-Vmware-Virtualization-Performance
This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
Lean how Matters Stephen Leonard General Manager Global Markets IBM Systems elucidates the impact of IBM Flex system in businesses which can be instrumental in helping firms to cut their operational down cost. In simple terms “IBM Flex System represents an entirely new generation of technology, with more performance and bandwidth, true integrated enterprise SAN storage.
For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210711973/stephen-leonard-ibm-big-data-and-cloud
Infrastructure Matters discusses trends in IT for 2014. It notes the rise of business services, the "Internet of Things" connecting billions of devices, and exponentially growing data. Infrastructure will need to process workloads and massive data quickly in secure environments. Virtualization increases flexibility, utilization, reliability and reduces costs. The role of CIO is expanding from operational roles to innovation, architecture and business transformation. While applications and users grow exponentially, infrastructure demands challenge traditional IT models, increasing the need for third platform technologies.
This document provides instructions for implementing IBM SmartCloud Entry on an IBM PureFlex System. It discusses installing and configuring the necessary IBM PureFlex System hardware including Flex System Manager, networking, storage, and compute nodes. It then covers installing and configuring VMware ESXi on the x86 compute nodes, the VMware vCenter Server, and data stores. Finally, it outlines installing and configuring IBM SmartCloud Entry and workload management.
Learn about the IBM PureFlex Solution for SAP Business Suite (POWER / AIX). This paper provides reference architectures of how heterogeneous SAP landscapes can be consolidated using IBM PureFlex System. While running the core business applications on POWER nodes with AIX as operating system, complementary SAP components are added on x86 nodes. IBM PureFlex System enables a very tight integration of infrastructure components including servers, networking and storage. Seamless monitoring and management functions of the infrastructure are provided by the FSM. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
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Learn about IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 VDI Reference architecture. This document describes the reference architecture for IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
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IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure (SDI) is IBM’s answer to end-user virtualization and integration needs. It offers robust virtual desktop solutions, infrastructure, and services designed to make the deployment of virtual desktops easier as is based on a reference architecture approach. As such, IBM SDI supports a wide range of hardware, hypervisors and software platforms from multiple vendors, providing a high degree of flexibility and customization choices. IBM SDI helps offer a more cost-effective, manageable, virtual desktop environment for a wide range of customer sizes, user types and industry segments. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
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The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741926/IBM-System-x3650-M4
Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210740347/IBM-System-x3250-M3
Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210734237/A-Comparison-of-PowerVM-and-Vmware-Virtualization-Performance
This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
Lean how Matters Stephen Leonard General Manager Global Markets IBM Systems elucidates the impact of IBM Flex system in businesses which can be instrumental in helping firms to cut their operational down cost. In simple terms “IBM Flex System represents an entirely new generation of technology, with more performance and bandwidth, true integrated enterprise SAN storage.
For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210711973/stephen-leonard-ibm-big-data-and-cloud
Infrastructure Matters discusses trends in IT for 2014. It notes the rise of business services, the "Internet of Things" connecting billions of devices, and exponentially growing data. Infrastructure will need to process workloads and massive data quickly in secure environments. Virtualization increases flexibility, utilization, reliability and reduces costs. The role of CIO is expanding from operational roles to innovation, architecture and business transformation. While applications and users grow exponentially, infrastructure demands challenge traditional IT models, increasing the need for third platform technologies.
This document provides instructions for implementing IBM SmartCloud Entry on an IBM PureFlex System. It discusses installing and configuring the necessary IBM PureFlex System hardware including Flex System Manager, networking, storage, and compute nodes. It then covers installing and configuring VMware ESXi on the x86 compute nodes, the VMware vCenter Server, and data stores. Finally, it outlines installing and configuring IBM SmartCloud Entry and workload management.
Learn about the IBM PureFlex Solution for SAP Business Suite (POWER / AIX). This paper provides reference architectures of how heterogeneous SAP landscapes can be consolidated using IBM PureFlex System. While running the core business applications on POWER nodes with AIX as operating system, complementary SAP components are added on x86 nodes. IBM PureFlex System enables a very tight integration of infrastructure components including servers, networking and storage. Seamless monitoring and management functions of the infrastructure are provided by the FSM. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Learn about IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 VDI Reference architecture. This document describes the reference architecture for IBM SmartCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure (SDI) is IBM’s answer to end-user virtualization and integration needs. It offers robust virtual desktop solutions, infrastructure, and services designed to make the deployment of virtual desktops easier as is based on a reference architecture approach. As such, IBM SDI supports a wide range of hardware, hypervisors and software platforms from multiple vendors, providing a high degree of flexibility and customization choices. IBM SDI helps offer a more cost-effective, manageable, virtual desktop environment for a wide range of customer sizes, user types and industry segments. For more information on IBM Systems, visit http://ibm.co/RKEeMO.
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IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities
1. IBM Industry Solutions
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/Local
IBM Intelligent Operations
Center for Smarter Cities
Coordinate city agencies and resources to deliver
exceptional service to citizens
Highlights
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Use information across all city agencies
and departments to make smarter
decisions
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Anticipate problems to minimize the
impact of disruptions to city services
and operations
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Coordinate cross-agency resources to
respond to issues rapidly and effectively
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Benefit from secure, reliable technology
provided by the IBM zEnterprise System
What if cities could improve services without increasing costs? Every day,
cities around the globe face an increasing number of operational issues
that affect the quality of services delivered to their citizens. To ensure
public safety and provide water, electric, transportation and other services,
cities need to access an ever-increasing amount of information, facilitate
real-time communication and collaboration across city agencies, and
address potential problems before they occur.
Unfortunately, many cities have not been able to achieve this level of
effective and efficient operations. For these cities, critical information is
often stored in multiple disparate systems, across multiple, disconnected
departments, hindering situation awareness and making it difficult for
officials to coordinate agency efforts. Without a single, integrated view
of events, incidents or impending crises, and without the ability to share
information rapidly, a city might be unable to deliver services in a sustain-
able fashion, protect citizens or drive economic growth for the future.
2. 2
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
IBM® Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities®
is designed to help city officials address these challenges.
Integrating multiple best-of-breed solutions from the
IBM software portfolio, the Intelligent Operations Center
solution offers you integrated data visualization, real-time col-
laboration and deep analytics capabilities that can help your
city agencies prepare for problems, coordinate and manage
response efforts, and enhance the ongoing efficiency of city
operations. Executive dashboard capabilities give decision
makers a real-time, unified view of operations to see who and
what resources are needed and available. Cities can rapidly
share information across agency lines to accelerate problem
response and improve project coordination. By providing visi-
bility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends, the
solution also helps fine-tune your current resource usage and
support forward-looking planning activities.
Key capabilities
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Provides a unified view across all city agencies
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Allows supervisors to monitor and manage a range of services
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Enables agencies to respond rapidly to events
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Delivers reliable situation awareness and reporting
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Facilitates real-time collaboration
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Streamlines management of resources and critical assets
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Includes an easy-to-use interface for multiple types of users, from
daily operators to senior managers
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Integrates with open-standard connection points to existing and
future systems
The Intelligent Operations Center is part of the
IBM Government Industry Framework, which provides a
software platform and roadmap to implement IBM Smarter
Cities solutions. The framework gives IBM clients access
to pre-integrated software, hardware and industry-specific
extensions. Solutions are delivered by world-class implementa-
tion services using best practices developed by IBM and its
partners through more than 2,000 Smarter Cities engagements.
With this approach, cities can achieve a fast return on their
investment, reduce risk and gain the flexibility needed to
extend solutions to address future needs.
IBM Intelligent
Operations Center
for Smarter Cities
Figure 1. IBM Intelligent Operations Center interconnects various parts of the
city for efficient resource use
3. 3
Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Facilitating real-time collaboration
Cities are complex organizations, with numerous departments
in charge of a wide range of essential functions, from water
management to public safety. Collaboration across these groups
is critical for addressing crises, successfully completing projects
and enhancing the efficiency of daily operations.
The Intelligent Operations Center offers a centralized,
real-time collaborative environment for planning, organizing,
monitoring and sharing information across city departments
and agencies. It processes data feeds and event information
from individual departments and then presents that information
in a city-wide view. In the event of a large-scale emergency,
an official at a disaster site can assess the situation and send a
report to the operations room using a web-based portal while
simultaneously learning that more rescue personnel are on
the way. Meanwhile, various agency representatives can view
report details together, begin communicating instantly and
start developing a recovery plan. Collaboration capabilities help
accelerate the resolution of problems, reduce the impact of
crises and minimize the resources needed for the situation.
On an ongoing basis, the Intelligent Operations Center can
help enhance the efficiency of process management, allowing
your managers to link event planning to predefined business
processes. Managers can choose to have processes set in motion
automatically or manually when a planned or unplanned event
occurs. Integration with the collaboration environment helps
ensure that team members can work together efficiently on
projects and events.
Measuring performance
The Intelligent Operations Center offers near-real-time KPIs
to help you monitor and optimize the performance of city ser-
vices, personnel, programs and others resources. The solution
helps transform raw data—collected from sensors located across
the city, historical databases, existing applications and other
sources—into actionable insights. Managers can adjust resource
allocation or modify programs as results start to trend up or
down.
With this solution, you can measure metrics against your city’s
own historical benchmarks or those of other cities to gain
insight into comparative performance. You can then choose to
publish metrics, demonstrating to city residents the progress
toward certain goals.
Managing assets and tracking service
requests
To maintain the city infrastructure, facilitate resource planning
and ensure resources are ready for emergencies, you need to
monitor a wide range of city assets, from sidewalks and sewers
to police cars and traffic lights. The Intelligent Operations
Center integrates resource and asset management capabilities
to help you make sure that your city assets are available, well
maintained and ready for use. Intelligent Operations Center
portals enable you to quickly assess the status of assets and their
impact on particular city services. A mapping function provides
a means of locating key assets rapidly. With effective asset man-
agement, your city can reduce the overall cost of maintenance
and repairs by avoiding unexpected issues, and help make sure
services and resources are available in critical situations.
When service requests are submitted, you need to be able
to prioritize projects, ensure that the right resources are allo-
cated and then follow projects to their completion. With the
Intelligent Operations Center, you can easily identify the
most pressing issues by using a high-level heat map where
information is presented in a geospatial context for situational
awareness. You can then use drill-down capabilities to access
details on the service requests, the team members and assets
assigned to the requests, and the status of projects.
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Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Capturing key insights from a single view
Whether you need a fast overview of an emergency situation or
a deep dive into performance metrics, it is possible to rapidly
access the information needed from the solution’s centralized
dashboard (see Figure 2). Historical reports enable you to view
graphical representations of the number of alerts received
according to urgency, severity and certainty (see Figure 3).
The easy-to-use interface is designed for a wide range of users,
from senior managers to daily operators, who can also access
key information using mobile devices to stay on top of issues
whether in the office or out in the field.
Transforming city operations with innovative leadership
A major Latin American city needed better ways to respond to
landslides, floods and other natural disasters that might threaten
its six million residents. Working with IBM, the city implemented a
solution that enables personnel to analyze weather, energy, building,
transportation and water data in real time. The solution draws on
information collected from multiple sensors, such as traffic cameras
and rain meters, and provides near-real-time situational awareness in
a single view. Communications capabilities enable personnel to share
information across agencies and synchronize rescue efforts, and
now the city can marshal its resources within hours, instead of days,
to warn the public and provide targeted rescue assistance to help
save lives.
Figure 2. Personnel can gain a quick, multi-department summary of events (upper left) and drill down to manage events and incidents as they occur
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Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
Gaining flexible deployment options
The Intelligent Operations Center offers multiple deployment
models to provide options for cities of virtually all sizes with
varying levels of IT resources. Cities with robust IT capabilities
or strong interests in “behind-the-firewall” implementations
can deploy this solution in their own data centers.
For cities and cross-municipality organizations without the
resources or skills for deploying and maintaining this solution,
IBM intends to offer the Intelligent Operations Center as an
IBM software as a service (SaaS) option that would reside on
the IBM SmartCloud™. The IBM SmartCloud is an expansive,
agile infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This delivery platform
is designed to provide organizations with rapid access to
enterprise-class virtual server environments that are well-suited
for dynamic workloads, applications and solutions. Deploying
the Intelligent Operations Center on the IBM SmartCloud can
help cities capitalize on the latest technology advances while
controlling costs.
The IBM zEnterprise® System is an extremely fast, scalable
enterprise system that supports your smarter computing initia-
tives. Designed for data, tuned to the task and built for effi-
ciency, the zEnterprise System offers the power, reliability,
security, scalability and flexibility that cities need to:
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Improve services to citizens by unifying and optimizing mul-
tiple systems to work as a single, integrated platform that
scales without adding complexity to meet ever-growing
demands on infrastructure.
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Enhance the lives of citizens by utilizing all data available to
predict problems and take immediate actions while protecting
sensitive data.
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Create a vastly simplified data center that slashes space, power
and cooling requirements leading to improved service deliv-
ery at a reduced expense to citizens.
Figure 3. Personnel can check alerts according to severity and urgency, and assess workflows
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Solution Brief
Government, State/Provincial/LocalIBM Industry Solutions
zEnterprise System users are positioned to transform their IT
operations from an expense into a catalyst for business growth
and innovation. Whether deployed for one municipality or
as a shared services platform for multiple municipalities, the
Intelligent Operations Center can help make your communities
better places to work and live.
Teaming with industry leaders
The IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides cross-agency
capabilities using a variety of data streams and services already
found in city environments today. IBM is teaming with the providers
of those data streams and services, developing a robust ecosystem
of IBM Business Partners committed to jointly delivering Smarter
Cities solutions. These IBM Business Partners provide domain expe-
rience and deliver best-in-class hardware, software and services.
They are helping IBM deploy Smarter Cities solutions in multiple
regions around the globe.
Helping to build Smarter Cities and a
Smarter Planet
Today, government organizations need to provide robust
services, drive economic growth, anticipate problems and
coordinate their responses to crises, all while optimizing exist-
ing resources. The Intelligent Operations Center is just one
of several Smarter Cities and government solutions from
IBM designed to help your organizations work smarter and do
more with less.
These solutions can help you integrate information from
disparate, instrumented systems and create an intelligent,
interconnected environment that fosters collaboration,
enhances efficiencies and sponsors effective decision making.
IBM can help you optimize individual resources and systems—
including buildings, energy use, operations, public safety,
transportation and water—while facilitating virtually seamless
cross-departmental integration.
Smarter operations: Delivering a coordinated response to crises
INSTRUMENTED The Intelligent Operations Center collects data from systems that manage
video cameras and sensors positioned throughout the city.
INTERCONNECTED The solution is designed to integrate data from multiple systems and enable
access to information using a web-based portal. By integrating information, the
solution can help your agencies work together more closely and collaboratively.
INTELLIGENT The solution helps officials in your operations room gain a clearer and more
accurate picture of crises with near-real-time information presented in a
single, unified view, so your city can coordinate relief efforts more rapidly
and efficiently to help save lives.