High Performance On Demand Solutions

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Welcome! This page provides resources to help you plan, design, and build real-world on demand solutions. The HiPODS team is a group of specialists within IBM's Software Strategy group, with seven locations around the world. Our skills represent a cross-section of IBM from the Software, Research, Global Services, and System and Technology divisions. We work to solve customer problems by innovating and collaborating with leading edge IBM customers.

The HiPODS team delivers first-of-a-kind, end-to-end integrated solutions that span IBM software and hardware brands to deliver a unified solution for our customers. HiPODS has worked with a wide range of businesses, such as Sogeti, iTricity, eBay®, Google™, New York Stock Exchange, China Telecom, Sprint®, the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology, and more.

BEIJING, CHINA and JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - 24 Jun 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of new "cloud computing" centers in South Africa and China. Cloud computing enables the delivery of personal and business services from remote, centralized servers (the "cloud") that share computing resources and bandwidth -- to any device, anywhere. Read more.

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - 18 Jun 2008: Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) and utility based services provider iTricity announced that iTricity will open a brand new Cloud Computing Hosting Center for Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Based on IBM "Blue Cloud" technology, iTricity will use the center to host computing services for its customers. The two companies will work closely to build this landmark center. Read more.

Some of our current project areas include:

• Cloud Computing

  Develop and deliver process-driven virtualized infrastructure solutions. Values to customers include:

  • Reducing IT management complexity and skill requirements
  • Sharing resources among multiple applications
  • Accelerating application launches
  • Supporting both existing and emerging, data-intensive workloads
• Banking Center of Excellence

  Transform back office applications to open standards-based, flexible solutions, helping clients to:

  • Improve efficiency
  • Reduce costs
  • Increase profitability
  • Meet growth needs
• Scale-out and availability
  • Optimize massive scale-out infrastructures and design of high-availability solutions
  • Plan for capacity required to meet performance objectives
  • Maximize performance through SOA workload tuning and characterization, including capacity planning

Our mission involves the following business areas:

	Overview Learn more about the work of IBM's High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) team, how they define and tackle business challenges, and how they bring their experience and knowledge back to you.
	How we can help you Find out how to engage the HiPODS team to collaboratively solve even the most complex business challenges.
	HiPODS brochure Download a brochure about the IBM HiPODS team and HiPODS solutions.
	Library of white papers, best practices, and case studies View our library of technical papers summarizing the results of the research and analysis performed by the HiPODS team.
	Press articles Check out what the press has to say about our work with customers and the positive, measurable impact our solutions make in their daily business.
	Archive library View the archive of our technical articles from years prior to 2004.

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