Published on Saturday, November 27, 2010

Inside Tucson Business

Breault Research Organization and IBM came away with Innovatoer of the Year awards from this year’s Governor’s Celebration of Innovation.

Breault Research Organization, 6400 E. Grant Road, was named the small company innovator of the year for an optical engineering software application it developed called APEX. The application is fully integrated in the industry-standard SolidWorks 3D-modeling environment for design and analysis of complex optical and illumination systems.

IBM, 9000 S. Rita Road in the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park, was named the large company innovator of year for its development of an IBM System Storage Easy Tier feature as part of the company’s DS8700 storage array. Easy Tier enables clients to more easily and economically deploy confidential storage. The system automatically and dynamically moves only appropriate data to the Solid State Disks in the storage system by moving most often used, or “hot,” data on faster disks and keeping other data on slower moving disks.

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