New Intelligence. A Smarter World

IBM’s Smarter Planet website “New Intelligence. Smarter thinking about how we collect, analyze and use information.” has the merit of placing network intelligence at the heart of a multitude of activities we would not automatically associate with developments in the cybersphere.

Instrumented. Interconnected. Intelligent
We would all agree that the information explosion has permanently changed the way we experience the world: everything – and everyone – is leaving digital tracks. For IBM this revolution implies three-fold change: moving from the "World Wide Web" to a "Web Wide World" means becoming instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Instrumented , because "sensors” of all sorts are embedded everywhere and in all areas of activity: cars, appliances, cameras, roads, pipelines, medical instruments, livestock,etc.) and interconnected via internet. … But as IBM recognizes, in the information age being instrumented and interconnected isn’t enough. It's got to be intelligent.

“With computational power in things we wouldn't recognise as computers, any person, object, process, service, or organisation can become digitally aware, connected and smart.”
(IBM's ”A Smarter Planet” web site: http://asmarterplanet.com/)

It is not only computational power, however, that makes for an intelligent world. But what makes aninstrumented and interconnected world an intelligent one?

For IBM: “People, machines, processes… are increasingly connected to systems that process data, and benefit from advanced analytics capable of turning data into real insight, in real time.”

This is the criticalpoint where information can be either unweildy volumes of unmanageable and unusable data, or truly valuable information that is instantly available and ready to use.

IBM's initiativesto promote a Web Wide World that is instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, are exactly in phase with Qosmos' vision for Network Intelligence. Put most simply, it's what connects connectedness to uses, possibilities and needs. Asthe IBM website underlines: “it can be a daunting task for any enterprise to sift through massive amounts of data, extract information and transform it into actionable knowledge.”

In my next blog, I'll be looking some more into IBM's vision for a Smarter Planet, and how Qosmos network intelligence can contribute to it.

Visit the qosmos web site at: www.qosmos.com
IBM's ”A Smarter Planet” web site: http://asmarterplanet.com/

Jerome