(Source: IBM)
Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
As tax season rears its hideous head, the 11 million U.S. taxpayers who annually schlep to an H&R Block office and sit down with an agent to prepare their ...Full Article
HPE Buys Hyper-Converger Simplivity
Making use of the "dry powder" accumulated via the spin off of its software business last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is acquiring hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Simplivity Corp. to expand ...Full Article
Despite Uncertainty, Cloud Drives IT Spending
Global IT spending is forecast to increase by 2.7 percent in 2017, a modest increase that might be higher if not for "political uncertainty in global markets," according to ...Full Article
For IBM/OpenPOWER: Success in 2017 = (Volume) Sales
To a large degree IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation have done what they said they would – assembling a substantial and growing ecosystem and bringing Power-based products to market, ...Full Article
EU Launches Low-Power Chip Effort
The European Union is expanding its efforts to promote energy-efficient computing with funding for hardware research aimed at next-generation high-end processors. "The European Commission wants Europe to avail ...Full Article
IoT Reality Check Projects ‘Trough of Disillusionment’
In an attempt to rise above the hype and examine the hard economic and technical data about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new study released by a venture ...Full Article
SAP HANA 2 Stresses Micro-Services, Analytics
The second generation of SAP's HANA platform jumps on the micro-services bandwagon by emphasizing upgrades to the in-memory platform that speed development and deployment of distributed applications while adding ...Full Article
Early Blockchain Adopters Kicking Tires
While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform ...Full Article
U.K. Weather Office Gets Exascale Boost
Improved weather forecasting and climate change analysis are among the emerging applications for the combination of exascale computing, data analytics and the storage demands each places on data management ...Full Article
