The move should speed up the delivery of watches and warnings during severe weather by 400%, from 247 seconds to 62 seconds, and reduce the agency's hardware maintenance costs by 40%, according to Chuck Piercy, program manager for the NWS's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System.

"That's pretty impressive," said Bob Lenard, director, IBM eServer Workstations. "When you're dealing with weather, any improvement helps. It's about saving lives and saving property, and that's what they're in business to do."

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