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IBM introduced a technology software, created in its Research Laboratories, which uses images, sounds and engraved text on mobile devices for daily use to help people to remember names, faces, conversations and important information.

The technology, nicknamed “Pensive” by the IBM team, uses the associative memory to engage connections between pieces of related information acquired by one person. The advantage of this new technology is its ability to understand the context in which the information is captured, connect various information and then use that knowledge to help remember the correct data when necessary.

“It’s like having a personal assistant for the memory,” says Dr. Yaakov Navon, chief researcher and expert on image processing of IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa. “Within our daily routines there are countless situations in we get new information through meetings, announcements, conferences, events or surfing the Web. Rather than go home and make a general web search to find this information, this technology nicknamed ‘Pensive’ will aid the brain to remember everyday data normally forget. ”

The mobile devices now have an infinite amount of functions capable of recording information in real time. The new IBM software combines image processing techniques, GPS information, intelligent clustering,  optical character recognition, voice recognition and information retrieval, to create indexes and information tags.

Researchers at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel, combined advanced mobile technologies with indications of memory to develop a system that can analyze the data acquired, hitch them with related experiences and use them to populate applications of personal information management. Once the address books and calendars are updated, technology allows data based on mentioning triggers time, location or the introduction of the related information.

The strategy is designed to help customers adopt software capabilities that facilitate optimizing efficiency in the energy area.

IBM announced a comprehensive strategy and a wide range of new capabilities to help companies achieve their goals of clean technology or “green”.

Built around software and services to new and existing IBM and supported by service providers heating, cooling and electrical monitoring devices, the strategy is designed to help customers adopt software capabilities that facilitate optimizing efficiency the area of energy.

The initiative launched by IBM called “Software for a Greener World”, is an expansion of Project Big Green and includes both new and existing offerings that help organizations optimize their infrastructure, workloads and staff to obtain efficiency in energy consumption.

The first key announcements are:

• The Tivoli capabilities help organizations to manage energy consumption in the datacenter and enable IT managers to manage energy use to control costs and reduce carbon emissions.
• WebSphere Virtual Enterprise provides virtualization capabilities infrastructure applications that lower operating costs and energy required to create, implement and administer applications for enterprise and SOA environment.
• Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for green partnership offers benefits for end users and IT enabling significant reductions in business travel.
• Rational Team Concert enable collaboration in context for software development and collaborative multi-site reducing CO2 emissions.

In addition, IBM is producing self-assessment tools to enable organizations to quickly identify the starting points and support the green model, with services and guides to get started quickly in implementing their green projects.

“Clearly, the explosion of computers and networks helped make the Internet and computing what they are today, but the increased costs associated with environmental and energy systems involved in this technological infrastructure is becoming to feel,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software. “While most think of energy conservation from the perspective of hardware (for example, the data processing centre, servers and storage systems), is the software which is giving more options to adopt the model green throughout the organization, “added the top executive.

The new BladeCenter QS22 is based on the Cell processor and is targeted at sectors with high data-processing needs, such as financial services or medical diagnosis.

IBM has announced the IBM BladeCenter QS22, a new server business that incorporates supercomputing technologies (High Performance Computing or HPC) and is directed to sectors with high data management needs, such as financial services, media or digital image medical diagnosis.

The basis of BladeCenter QS22 is the new processor PowerXCell 8i, compatible with the architecture Cell Broadband Engine (Cell / BE), originally developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. In the more complex arithmetic, this new processor multiplied by five processors speed Cell / BE original.

QS22 integrates Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system as the main development environment and open Eclipse. This new server includes the following integrated functions:

• IBM Power Configurator.
• IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager.
• IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger.
• IBM Services Data Center Energy Efficiency.

IBM Corp plans to unveil a new type of computer for big data hubs operated by Web 2.0 companies.

IBM’s iDataPlex line is due for sale next month and is meant for companies that buy vertical racks with dozens of servers based on Intel microprocessors.

The line is aimed at fewer than 1,000 customers worldwide.

Early testers of the unit include Yahoo Inc and Tencent QQ, a Chinese company. IBM has deployed about 300 units for testing, and the vice president for its enterprise systems group, Jim Gargan, told that he expected large sales.

IBM has announced the launch of a new supercomputer for a revolutionary chilled water system, which can reduce by more than 80% the number of air-conditioning units needed in a typical server configuration. The company also announced the fastest UNIX server on the market called p595.

Both systems are based on the processor Power 6 and involve a use of IBM technology and reduce the costs of operation of data centers, while improving system performance so that customers can migrate to a new generation of centers data.

The new p575 supercomputer incorporates a unique system in which some copper plates chilled water, which are located above each microprocessor constantly absorb heat. It is the first IBM system of water-cooled since 1995 and represents a revolution in the environmental side.

This system makes it possible to reduce power consumption typical of a data centre by 40% and requires 80% less air-conditioning units. The IBM researchers estimate that water can be 4,000 times more effective than air to cool computer systems.

The new UNIX server Power 595 is designed to address the major concerns of the corporations: energy, physical space and system management. The performance of an IBM’s Power machine of 64 cores is twice than an HP Itanium Superdome configured in a similar manner and at the same price.

The new server, incorporates 64 cores Power 6 and has a bandwidth of 1.3 terabytes per second, which would transfer in a second the amount of information printed on paper that would result in 50,000 trees.

With up to 254 virtual partitions and 4 TB of memory, the Power 595 integrates PowerVM virtualization technology for large-scale consolidation. More than 90% of enterprise servers Power Systems currently used PowerVM to save energy and more effectively manage IT costs.