TerraEchos Honored by 2012 IBM Beacon Award

At the recently held IBM (News - Alert) PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in New Orleans, a provider of advanced security solutions, TerraEchos, was honored with 2012 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Information Management Innovation.

The IBM Beacon Award is an integral part of IBM’s Business Partner recognition program and is given to the company selected by leading industry influencers and IBM executives. The IBM Business Partner program has been recognized on numerous occasions by industry-leading experts and publications – more than 117 top distinctions since 2004.

"Recipients of the 2012 IBM Beacon Award set the standard for business excellence, innovative solutions, ingenuity, and client transformation," said Mark Hennessy, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners and Midmarket, in a statement. “We congratulateTerraEchoson winning the Beacon Award for Outstanding Information Management Innovation and demonstrating its ability to provide value by incorporating InfoSphere Streams within their Kairos solution.”

TerraEchos develop code-based analytic technologies specifically for analyzing fast-moving data streams for security and intelligence purposes. The company is the creator of Kairos, an appliance that can perform the analytical tasks at high speed — collecting and making sense of high-volume, streaming data with absolute accuracy. TerraEchos has several leading partners, including Flywheel Ventures; S&K Technologies, a tribal-owned company headquartered in Missoula, Montana; and GCS (News - Alert) Research, an advanced geospatial information technology company.

“We are extremely honored to receive the IBM Beacon Award for Information Management Innovation,” states Dr. Alex Philp, CEO of TerraEchos, Inc. “This award recognizes our Kairos™ security solution for analytical processing of extreme data in motion. Embedding and extending the IBM InfoSphere Streams technology directly into the core of our Kairos system has allowed us to exceed the demanding expectations and performance objectives of our customers.”