The city of the future has arrived: a "smarter" city with leaders who use and intelligent operations center to monitor agency and citywide operations, involve citizens and businesses in incident reporting,gather and analyze citizen feedback and do all this with minimal IT resources.  The IBM Intelligent Operations Center(IOC) for Smarter cities provides and executive dashboard to help city leaders gain insight into all aspects of the city.  Contact Guilaume Hoareau  (guillaume_hoareau@fr.ibm.com) to sign up for a demonstration now!

This new whitepaper describes three easy steps that an organization can take in setting up a private cloud with IBM SmartCloud Foundationon zEnterprise.  You will gain an understanding of how your customer can save up to 90% in Oracle licensing costs, provision large Dev-test environments in hours vs. days, and additional capabilities such as monitoring that are needed to have an elastic infrastructure for Cloud

Roland Koo, IBM Product Manager, Compilers, hosts a panel of experts who discuss best practices for a successful compiler migration alongside middleware and hardware upgrades. Hear lessons learned from IBM customer engagements, and learn how you can join the beta program for IBM’s newest COBOL compiler.

Matt Shaul, Aon Hewitt’s CEO for Benefits Outsourcing, tells how his company leveraged the scalability, reliability and security of IBM’s new zEnterprise system to provide a better customer experience for 20 million program participants. (The video is an excerpt from the zEnteprise EC12 launch webcast earlier this year.)

Big data represents a new era of computing, when data in any format, in motion or at rest, can be explored and utilized for breakthrough insights. And the IBM big data platform – leveraging open source technologies and $6 billion in analytics acquisitions – is uniquely positioned to help customers seize this opportunity.