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HPC Cloud Provider Nimbix Launches IBM Power9 Targeting AI
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed ...Full Article
Power9 and the ‘D Word’: IBM Touts OpenPOWER Ecosystem, Announces New Customers, Products for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters
At SC17 in Denver four months ago, Ken King, GM, OpenPOWER, IBM Systems Group, told a somewhat jaundiced trio of journalists that 2018 would, finally, after several years of ...Full Article
IBM Reports 2017 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results
January 18, 2018 ARMONK, NY, Jan. 18, 2018 — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 earnings results. “Our strategic imperatives revenue again grew at a double-digit rate ...Full Article
Machine Learning Fuels U.S. Patent Surge
Technology innovators intensified efforts over the last year to secure intellectual property rights on transformative technologies ranging from AI to blockchain platforms. While IBM maintained its overwhelming lead in ...Full Article
Back to the Future – The Mainframe in a Connected World
Since the mid 90’s, industry watchers have predicted a slow, gradual death for the mainframe, as x86-based server farms and the cloud gained a stronger foothold in the high-performance ...Full Article
Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach
Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims ...Full Article
IBM Demonstrates In-memory Computing with 1M PCM Devices
Last week IBM reported successfully using one million phase change memory (PCM) devices to implement and demonstrate an unsupervised learning algorithm running in memory. It’s another interesting and potentially ...Full Article
AWS Dominates Soaring Cloud Market
Despite intense competition in the booming cloud market, Amazon Web Services remains the overwhelming infrastructure-as-a-service leader by a wide margin, a cloud marker tracker concludes. AWS is "in a ...Full Article
Google, IBM Partner to Tighten Container Security
Among the ways proposed to secure application containers and micro-services as they proliferate in datacenters is more rigorous oversight of the software supply chain. With those security considerations in ...Full Article
Red Hat, Microsoft Extend Alliance to SQL Server
Red Hat continues to expand its ties with major cloud providers with the addition of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server on its flagship Linux platform. Separately, the ...Full Article