IBM
Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to ...Full Article
IBM Extends Spark Push With Analytics Tools
IBM is expanding its Bluemix cloud development platform with a heavy dose of data analytics tools designed to integrate data services into a growing number of hybrid cloud deployments. ...Full Article
Handicapping IBM/OpenPOWER’s Odds for Success
2016 promises to be pivotal in the IBM/OpenPOWER effort to claim a non-trivial chunk of the Intel-dominated high-end server landscape. Big Blue’s stated goal of 20-to-30 percent market share ...Full Article
IBM Maintains Patent Lead, But Here Comes Amazon
Intellectual property has become the coin of the realm for technology enterprises. Hence, companies like IBM and high-flying global competitors like Samsung tout their growing patent portfolios as market ...Full Article
IBM Targets Enterprise Video with Clearleap Deal
Unstructured data in the form of video continues to make inroads in large enterprises as it becomes as a service as well as source of business intelligence. With that ...Full Article
OpenPower Looks to Accelerate Enterprise, HPC
At SC15 today, IBM provided a glimpse of its broadening vision for accelerator-assisted computing on Monday (Nov. 16) with announcements at the SC15 conference around Watson, a strategic alliance ...Full Article
‘API Economy’ Gets Boost With Open Spec Initiative
A new open source initiative backed by application and service vendors as well as enterprise users aims to extend an emerging development framework to become an open API industry ...Full Article
IBM Expands Hybrid Cloud Strategy With Gravitant Deal
IBM expanded its cloud and enterprise services offerings this week with the latest in a series of acquisitions designed to propel its hybrid cloud strategy. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said ...Full Article
Tear Down Those Security Walls
Securing the enterprise like a castle of yore is bad for business, employees, and customers, so enterprises must protect data wherever it resides -- in sensors, mobile devices, silos, ...Full Article
IBM, VMware Ally to Push Hybrid Cloud Adoption
VMware earlier this week announced a refresh of its hybrid cloud management platform that ties those tools more closely to its NSX network virtualization platform for software-defined datacenters. The ...Full Article