The US technology titan’s Internet-based in-house system is called Blue Insight and is designed to enable IBM’s 200,000 employees to swiftly find answers or patterns in mountains of information.<\/p>\n
“I expect this first-of-its-kind approach will help drive both new growth opportunities as well as have a significant impact in cost savings,” said IBM chief information officer Pat Toole.<\/p>\n
“This new model of cloud computing will provide our employees with a single place to access real business insights, improve standards compliance, and create a repository of best practices throughout our company.”<\/p>\n
Blue Insight will gather and analyze more than a petabyte of information from nearly 100 different information warehouses and data storage areas.<\/p>\n
A petabyte is equal to a million gigabytes. If that amount of information were in the form of text stuffed into four-drawer file cabinets, there would be enough of them to ring the planet, according to IBM.<\/p>\n
IBM also unveiled an offering for businesses that want computing clouds of their own.<\/p>\n
Blue Insight served as a template for the Smart Analytics Cloud systems, according to IBM.<\/p>\n