News Archive: IBM

This significant improvement advances the development of low-cost, faster and more durable memory applications for consumer devices, including mobile phones and cloud storage, as well as high-performance applications, such as enterprise data storage. With a combination of speed, endurance, non-volatility and density, PCM can enable a paradigm shift for enterprise IT and storage systems within the next five years. [Click on Logo to learn more]

Gaining an efficient, relevant understanding of mountains of data will be one of the biggest challenges for organizations in the 21st Century. McGill’s CLUMEQ will provide high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities to fully support the research activities of the Quebec and Canadian university communities in several data-intensive sectors. McGill’s focus includes high-energy physics, nanotechnologies, computational fluid dynamics, climate research, brain imaging, biology and life sciences. [Click on Pic to learn more]

The new IBM Analytics for City Services and Safety (ACCESS) project at the City of Cambridge is part of IBM’s “First-of-a-Kind” program that brings IBM researchers and clients together to test new technologies for business and develop software solutions to improve the way business works. [Click on Logo to learn more]

The Centre hospitalier Pierre-Janet (CHPJ) is the first health establishment in Quebec to use the Vocera advance mobile technology from IBM in French, which enables instant voice communication controlled with naturally spoken commands. The system has resulted in faster interventions, better patient care and enhanced security for hospital staff. [Click on Pic to learn more]

Through its victory on Jeopardy, the IBM computer Watson showed that artificial intelligence has advanced to the point where computers can understand natural language questions and return useful answers based on expansive knowledge bases. [Click on Pic to learn more]

IBM [NYSE: IBM] announced the first stage of a $22.5 million project to create an electronic healthcare records (EHR) system for the province of Manitoba has gone live, providing clinicians with unprecedented access to their patients’ lab results, dispensed drug records and immunization histories, in seconds. [Click on Pic to learn more]

An annual IBM (NYSE: IBM) global survey of 30,000 consumers in 13 countries, including more than 2,000 Canadians, reveals shoppers here are adopting new shopping technologies faster than most. In fact, the number of Canadians willing to use mobile technologies to shop increased by 160 per cent year-to-year, second only to the US in uptake. [Click on Pic to learn more]

With the new $42 million IBM Compute Cloud Centre, Canadian businesses can securely develop, host and test applications while paying only for the computational power they use. The platform represents an evolutionary opportunity for organizations to capitalize on the cloud computing model to further grow their social and business applications. [Click on Logo to learn more]

Analytics software will gathers patient and business data from across the organization and present it in real-time to doctors, administrators and certain hospital staff. [Click on Logo to learn more]