IBM?s solution has self-configuring, self-managing and self-protecting features enable easy installation and management, and can be administered via a web interface.

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At the end of the summer, each team has exactly four minutes to pitch their analysis and solution to IBM executives at the company's Armonk, N.

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Through this approach, IBM helped a Danish windpower company build and use a Big Data solution to analyze weather data.

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The county is also using SPSS predictive analytics software, Cognos business intelligence software, i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement solution, a private cloud system on zLinux hosted on an IBM System z mainframe and IBM PureFlex System.

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In the U.S. IBM and Cisco have long been championing the idea that city planning is the ultimate green solution.

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It has over-invested in ideas such as the FlexPod reference architecture, which ultimately is not an integrated solution (such as those offered by Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and Oracle).

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