“You can’t force creativity, problem solving, and invention. It’s a process that starts from within you.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND:
Susan Puglia
VP, University Programs
Vice Chair, IBM Academy of Tech.

10 years ago

By jove! It's Wimbledon time again. Which means IT technicians have geared up the tournament website for two full weeks of peak demand. Luckily they’ve got a great doubles partner. Together with the IBM Cloud, they’ll attempt to flawlessly return an expected half a billion hits over the course of the championship tennis tournament. So stock up the fridge and indulge in extra helpings of strawberries and cream, no matter where you are. 

10 years ago

“It’s all about speeds and feeds. It’s about latency. How fast will it run? I’ll often sit with businesses who ask me about how mission critical is the performance of the cloud? And I tell them, if you can make a gamer happy, you can make anybody happy.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
@CalebBarlow
IBM Security Expert
Making mobile apps safer

10 years ago

“In a social business you’re empowered to make better decisions. You’re able to solve the whole problem because you have access to all the pieces of the puzzle.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
@AndrewGrill
IBM Global Business Partner
Making businesses social

10 years ago

“We can’t know what future technologies will be, but we can lay the groundwork and spur our imaginations and get a head start in exploring these new worlds.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Christopher Lutz
Scientist at IBM Research
Making data storage with atoms

10 years ago

Skis made with data
It wasn’t so long ago that a pair of skis were two planks of wood with a couple of foot straps bolted on. Nowadays, skis are articles of precision equipment made with thousands of types of materials and almost as many models to choose from. And like any sport, skiing has its own followers of fashion. And keeping up with their demands is no easy task. Unless you’re Austrian ski manufacturer, Blizzard. They’re able to keep up with what’s hot, not, and destined to go ballistic now that analytics gives them a real-time view of what’s selling in ski shops all over the world. Which means they can always have what ski bunnies, powder hounds, shredders, freestylers and knuckle-draggers are hunting the store racks for. Explore more stories →

10 years ago

“The connected car will give a lot more intelligence and visibility to drivers. The usage of a car will be much more different, based on the cloud. The car will do what you want. You can play, sleep, drive, be productive in the car, and this will be a totally different place to commute and to be mobile.”

INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Gerhard Baum
IBM Auto Industry & Cloud Expert
Making EV-friendly roads

10 years ago

Cheese made with data
Nothing’s quite like fresh Parmigiano. This cheese originated in the Middle ages. The milk must only be from Northern Italian cows, fed fresh hay and milked twice a day. The wheels are coddled like babies—brushed, turned, checked and aged according to an exact schedule. Just as far back as this tradition goes, so do the impostors. For centuries, a consortium of Parmigiano Reggiano dairies tracked their cheese production the old fashioned way—with pen and paper. But now they have a better way to fight back. With the help of data, they can weed out the fakes, protecting their proud reputation and that authentic taste on your fork. Explore more stories →

10 years ago