Recognizing the emergence of a strong demand for cognitive computing, IBM has made the decision to give birth to a new business unit that will deal specifically on technologies related to the supercomputer. The Blue chip company announces IBM Watson Group, a new division that will bring together software, services, research, experts and market forces…
The demand for cloud computing is strengthen when the companies have reached the awareness that they need to provide innovative IT services while reducing costs. The cloud model promotes investment in technology, allowing scheduling, provisioning, with a rapid and dynamic management of virtualized computing resources on demand. IBM has supported thousands of clients around the…
Heart failure will remain among most deadly and costly diseases for human beings unless we discover new methods to detect the illness much earlier. Every individual is impacted by their health, social and environmental needs. To truly treat each patient as an individual, and provides professional the most comprehensive care, big data analytics technology today…
At the LinuxCon 2013, IBM announced it would invest $ 1 billion in new technologies and open source Linux for Power Systems servers. The investment aims to help companies leverage big data and cloud computing with modern systems built to handle the new wave of applications that arrive at the data center. The big blue…
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has been on the hot seat for a while now. First was the dispute with Amazon over the US Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) $600 million cloud service agreement, and now the issue about the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) probe of its accounting and financial declarations. The SEC investigation…
In an effort to strengthen their position in the market for business-targeted computing services delivered over the internet, IBM has agreed to buy the cloud computing company SoftLayer Technologies. The exact purchase price was not disclosed, but a source who refused to be named (due to his lack of authority to speak publicly about the…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made an appeal with a US federal court last Wednesday and filed a complaint against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The move is to get the court’s approval to have the cloud service agreement between the two agencies to push through, which was put on hold after IBM’s protest. The Government…
Analyze large volumes of data not only promotes the application of new software and other connectors, but also increases the need for computing hardware, servers storage, etc. With its portfolio analytics, knowledge management, security and monitoring, HP offers a new platform for Big Data. Under the project name HAVEn, HP has announced a Big Data…
Big Data is everything. The analysis of large amounts of unstructured data is one of the four major trends in the world. IBM announced its solutions and services dedicated to Big Data analysis of employee data with the key to improved organizational performance. Recruitment and retention of highly qualified staff is an important aspect of…
IBM showed strong protest over the $600 cloud project agreement that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supposedly awarded to Amazon. The giant companies, Amazon and IBM continue to battle for the intriguing cloud contract as each pushes its old and new business solutions for the CIA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) already announced that it…