White Papers

Defending the DoD: Making Software Harder to Hack

This white paper addresses the security challenges of a highly interdependent DoD systems environment. It highlights how these challenges are extending the focus of best security practices beyond network and data protection to ways of making the applications themselves harder to hack. It defines the IBM® Security Framework that can help DoD agencies, contractors and suppliers identify areas of highest risk to their critical systems and implement practical solutions. Lastly, you will learn how to make a strong business case that helps enable you to get key security solutions funded and deployed quickly.

Five steps of air travel that smartphones will change by 2020

A rough guide for the digital traveler.

A Transportation Success: Netherlands Railways, Growing ridership with minimum congestion and maximum efficiency

The Need: Netherlands Railways—the nation’s largest and Europe’s busiest—needed the ability to manage more trains and passengers within its existing infrastructure footprint. They needed software to develop powerful algorithms that can adapt scheduling and rolling stock allocations to short-term fluctuations in ridership. The Result: "We’ve been able to improve our utilization and save 20 million Euros annually, all while improving our on-time performance.” —Wim Fabries, head of logistics, Netherland Railways. Learn about the details by downloading this whitepaper.

'GREEN' HORIZONS: THE 'GREENING' OF JETLINER CABINS

Although news reports tend to focus on dramatic descriptions of future aero engines powered by hydrogen or solar cells, blended biofuels or blooming algae...

Delta's Operation Clockwork: Transforming the Fundamentals of an Airline

A decade-long commoditization trend has firmly established the operating cost structure as the real battlefield for competitive advantage...