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High-performance Spark: Improving on big data’s swiss army knife to enable AI Provided by IBM
In their widely followed 2017 Hype Cycle for Data Management, Gartner’s declaration that Hadoop was “obsolete before plateau” marked a fascinating milestone in the evolution of big data. Big ...Full Article
Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services
As IBM kicked off its annual Think conference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging ...Full Article
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narrowly-defined tasks. AI of the ...Full Article
Azure Gains in Multi-Cloud Shift, But Complexity Grows
Microsoft Azure is benefitting most from the growing adoption of multiple cloud vendors, according to recent surveys of enterprise cloud managers. Perhaps the most revealing is an Amazon Web ...Full Article
IBM: Red Hat Gives Us Both Ends of Cloud
Emboldened by strong quarterly earnings and annual guidance, IBM executives again this week portrayed the company’s pending acquisition of open-source leader Red Hat as positioning it to lead the ...Full Article
IBM Unveils Hybrid Cloud Deals, Red Hat OKs Acquisition
Red Hat shareholders approved the open-source leader’s acquisition by IBM this week, likely clearing the way for the mega-deal to close by the end of this year. IBM (NYSE: IBM) ...Full Article
Patent Awards Slow, But Applications Rise
The broad category of data processing continued to generate the lion’s share of intellectual property claims in 2018, despite and overall decline in the number of U.S. patents last ...Full Article
Struggling IBM Uses CES to Reinvent Itself
Among the featured speakers at the largest consumer electronics show next week in Las Vegas is the CEO of a a major enterprise IT vendor not generally associated with ...Full Article
Oracle Lawsuit Clouds DoD’s IT Strategy
Just in time for the holidays, cloud rivals are fighting like cats and dogs over one of the biggest ever federal IT contracts. The battle lines for the Joint ...Full Article
IBM Seeks Transparency into AI Decision Making
Among the stumbling blocks to AI adoption is lack of transparency, understanding, and therefore trust in how machines actually make decisions. How and why AI arrived at an answer ...Full Article