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How information continues to shape the Wimbledon Championships
IBM helps inform the science of tennis at Wimbledon, providing players, coaches, spectators and millions of people worldwide with a richer experience. We start by providing the most basic piece of data: the score. From here, a vast sea of information - from schedules to player statistics, serve speeds and match insights - is captured, analysed and distributed to media, officials and fans, both in the arena and around the world.
IBM SecondSight
IBM SecondSight
This year, for the first time in Grand Slam Tennis, IBM will be piloting player movement tracking. See who the fastest movers are, watch how their performance changes set by set, match by match, and see how much pure fitness and stamina can influence a game of tennis. Known as IBM SecondSight, the system can provide new data that could help players, coaches, commentators and fans alike, and add a new dimension to our understanding of the science of tennis.
Brought to life through 3D visualisations and onscreen overlays, all Court 18 Matches will be tracked in this way.
And, as always, IBM twitter scouts roam the Wimbledon site tweeting on anything and everything for interest to people within the grounds. This includes live updates on the best places to get strawberries, where the shortest queues are and, of course, a constant stream of information on what the players are up to. Just search IBM Scout on Twitter to follow us or become a fan on Facebook to get news, pictures and more.
It’s cloudy at Wimbledon
The truly amazing aspect of Wimbledon is that a few weeks prior to the event, much of the infrastructure vital to making it happen is nowhere to be seen. For 50 weeks of the year, Wimbledon acts as a private tennis club with less than 500 members. Come June, IBM helps it to scale up its infrastructure to meet the demands of a global audience for a critical two-week period and then scale back down to support normal operations once it's all over.
Greener courts, greener data centres
IBM has been the Official Information Technology Partner of the All England Club and the Wimbledon Championships since 1990. In fact, we’re the official technology partner for all four Grand Slams - this constant cycle of events sets up a perpetual stream of innovation that sees the technology become smarter and greener year on year.
One of the best examples of this is the increasingly sophisticated ‘leadership data centres’, which are used to support all four Grand Slams. This ultra-green solution allows IBM to achieve the highest level of security, availability and automation while minimising environmental impact.
Since 2008, using a highly virtualised, dynamic infrastructure, visits have grown by 24%, yet cost per visit has dropped a staggering 73%.
You’d expect IBM to know how to make the best of a data centre, we manage hundreds of them around the world. We continually strive to make our centres greener and more efficient, and through our own learnings, can help you realise the following benefits:
- Simplified IT environment
- Improved IT utilisation and system availability with virtualisation
- Lower cost and complexity through consolidation and standardisation
- Increased flexibility
- Improve application specific monitoring and tuning
- Continued reduction in energy consumption and cooling demands
