The City and County of Honolulu needed to increase government transparency by providing useful, timely data to its citizens. The city’s goal was to improve citizen involvement, the city’s service to its citizens and the efficiency of city operations. Working with IBM and IBM Business Partner Sirius Computer Solutions, Honolulu deployed a custom cloud using an Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) engine running Linux on the city’s IBM System z10 Enterprise Class mainframe. Honolulu also implemented an IBM XIV Storage System and IBM Maximo Asset Management, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, Tivoli Workload Scheduler and Tivoli Storage Manager software. The IBM solution reduced application deployment time from one week to only hours, lowered licensing costs for one database by 68% and enabled creation of a new property tax appraisal system and increased tax revenue by $1.4 million in just 3 months. To access the case study, go here.