Storage drivers take advantage of OpenStack

Avishay Traeger


Editor's note: This blog entry was co-authored by
Avishay Traeger and Ronen Kat, storage researchers at IBM Research - Haifa.


Started two years ago by Rackspace and NASA, the OpenStack Foundation was envisioned as an open and common code base for businesses to build
public and private cloud infrastructure – while sharing common approaches to
management services and APIs.

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New destinations for mobile

A Q&A with Gal Shachor, newly appointed Distinguished Engineer at IBM Research – Haifa.

Gal is one of the pioneering founders of WebSphere. His current work focuses on architecture and innovation for mobile computing platforms.


How did the industry – and IBM – make the move to mobile computing and how were you involved?

Gal Shachor: In 1996, contrary to the advice I got from many people, I

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Treating disease with real-world evidence

Data from patients' drug reactions help researchers advance personalized healthcare.

Diseases are treated based on the knowledge of statistics from large populations. For example, hospitals treat patients in different wards or buildings based on their disease. Although patients are treated as a group, they respond – or don't respond – as individuals. In fact, many patients go through

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Simpler tools for more complex systems

Editors note: This blog entry is authored by Gabi Zodik, Department Group Manager of Software and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.



Systems such as planes, cars, or air traffic control are becoming more and more complex. Although they now provide us with functionality, efficiency, and productivity never before imagined, they are also introducing new engineering challenges. This is

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Is the Internet reaching its limit?

Editor's note: This entry was written by Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, Senior Manager of the System Technologies and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.

With billions of people, devices, and objects now connected to the Internet, it is quickly reaching its architectural limits -- and doesn’t have the ability to scale up to capacity for the vast amounts of new data being created. It's quickly becoming clear

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What works best for patients like me?

Clinical genomic analytics platform for decision support takes some of the guesswork out of medical treatments



On March 14, IBM announced the creation of a new clinical genomics analytics platform to help physicians and administrators at Italy's Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori make decisions about which treatments could work most effectively for individual patients.





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Smart water analytics – when IT meets H2O

First Of A Kind project uses smart analytics to cut water loss in Sonoma County



"It took a crew of technicians and special equipment to block off traffic, climb down under the road, and make the adjustments to the water pressure valves," said Segev Wasserkrug, lead researcher for IBM's First Of A Kind (FOAK) project that brought smart water analytics from Haifa, Israel to Northwest

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Q&A with Yaniv Corem, gamification expert at IBM Research

Yaniv Corem joined IBM Research – Haifa in June 2010 after completing his undergraduate work at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and earning his master’s degree in architecture and computer science from MIT. Aside from his enthusiasm for rock climbing and bouldering, Yaniv is passionate about projects that use the "wisdom of the crowd" to solve difficult problems, complete tasks,

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How can visualization help citizens use open data?

Open data refers to the free access and reuse of government data — excluding private information such as personal medical data. The concept of establishing a portal for open data is fairly new.



Visualization of city activity, such as traffic, in Helsinki


IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge sent a team of six experts – including two researchers from the Haifa lab in Israel — to Helsinki. Their

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The Future of Healthcare

The introduction of so much new digital medical information is transforming the decision-making process in the healthcare ecosystem. Patients often seek out information before they speak to a doctor, and clinicians are using computers to help with diagnosis or with the selection of treatment options. In short, what used to be an intimate doctor-patient twosome has now become a threesome: the

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