Gregg Eldred

IBM has long been a partner of the US Tennis Association (USTA) in handling all the IT operations behind the US Open and other Grand Slam tennis events. At a press event hosted by IBM at the US Open here on Aug. 31, Gordon Smith, the executive director and chief operating officer of the USTA, said, “IBM has been a USTA partner for 18 years. We’ve got the best technology partner on the planet bar none. We can’t even begin to use the capacity IBM has provided us.”

Meanwhile, Braeger [Walt Braeger, vice president of cloud computing and Global Technology Services at IBM] told eWEEK he believes the “killer app” for the cloud is the development and test environment. IBM offers a Development and Test cloud for its customers.

   . . . The average enterprise devotes up to 50 percent of its entire technology infrastructure to development and test, but typically up to 90 percent of it remains idle, Braeger said. IBM has seen that taking advantage of cloud computing within development and testing environments can help reduce IT labor costs by 50 percent, improve quality and drastically reduce time to market.

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