IBM's retooling to become focused on software and services is legendary. The company is an outsourcing and services leader and has placed its bet on analytics for the near future. IBM's software assets focus on everything from business intelligence to analytics to collaboration to middleware and open source development. On the hardware side of the house, IBM is a mainframe and server leader. Big Blue also has a large research unit and is the patent leader.
The facility will be the first Latin American institution of the AI Horizons Network and will receive a $20 million investment.
It took seven weeks for Big Blue's AI to learn to speak 'council' and pick up the tone of social media posts.
The three-year project aims to produce AI models that can analyze genomic data, health records and biomarkers to predict the onset of heart attacks and other common conditions.
IBM is increasingly plugging into multiple cloud environments--public, hybrid and private--and now aiming to expand the reach of Watson.
The cloud computing race in 2019 will have a definite multi-cloud spin. Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company.
The IBM Blockchain Platform is now running on the IBM Cloud in Melbourne, with a second platform to be created in Sydney soon.
Employees, data, and resources are three of the biggest assets in any organization. All employees should be familiar with the processes for recovering information if it becomes lost, inaccessible, or compromised....
SaaS provider Smart Energy Water has signed a multi-million dollar, five-year deal with IBM after beginning its cloud journey elsewhere
The collaboration gives McCormick a way to speed up product development and give its 500-plus, global team of researchers a way to stay in sync.
IBM also said it will create a data science apprentice program as well as the data scientist certification for employees.
'Olli' and 'Matilda' will autonomously usher passengers in Adelaide to and from the beach.
Does IBM’s announcement of its new quantum computing system mean that quantum computing must be on your technology roadmap?
Microsoft wins a five-year services deal with Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and intelligence community.
The Q System One has a modular design and parts designed to minimize interference. IBM's plan is to start scaling quantum computational center.
At CES 2019, IBM outlined the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System, which uses sensor data, crowdsourced input and supercomputing to improve forecasts.
The effort is likely to be part of a barrage of health, wellness, and AI announcements coming out of CES 2019.
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
There's no better way to put Chef Watson to the test than actually putting on an apron, heading down to the kitchen and taste whatever big data actually has to offer.
In November 2014, the top six supercomputers all run Linux, but that's about the only thing they have in common.
The GlobalFoundries semiconductor factory deal is only part of the recipe for Big Blue's ongoing survival. Here are a few other things that Armonk needs in order to maintain relevancy for the next decade and beyond.
This year IBM celebrates 25 years of partnership with the world's most famous tennis championships. We go behind the scenes to examine the tech that serves up the online coverage.
Black Hat USA 2013 vendor area included companies such as Veracode, Booz Allen Hamilton and Microsoft, with creative schwag such as Botnets for Breakfast (cereal) and 'hacker' playing cards.
ZDNet goes behind to scenes to learn more about the tech that is used to support the Australian Open.
Take a trip down memory lane with these old PC ads. We sure have come a long way since then -- on style and pricing.
IBM's 300mm chip fab in upstate New York turns out high-performance chips around the clock. ZDNet was invited to take a look inside, and learn about what the future holds for chip making.
How do you make your datacentre run better, and save money? At IBM's research labs and facilities in upstate New York, three ideas are uppermost on people's minds: energy efficiency, monitoring, and utilisation.
I got a tour of IBM's Operations Center at the US Open this week, and I took a few pictures. Check out the infrastructure underlying delivery of all scores, stats and analytics at America's Grand Slam tennis event.
IBM's Sequoia supercomputer retakes the crown for the fastest supercomputer in the world.
In 1952 IBM solved the problem of using magnetic tape to back up computer-generated data.
IBM takes advantage of qubits which can potentially work on millions of computations at once - far outperforming a PC.
Every second tennis players are on the courts at the Australian Open, they are generating new data and information that needs to be catalogued. Tennis Australia brought IBM back on board to handle the massive workload in 2012 and ZDNet Australia went behind the scenes.
The three-year project aims to produce AI models that can analyze genomic data, health records and biomarkers to predict the onset of heart attacks and other common conditions.
Jeff Welser, vice president and lab director at IBM Research - Almaden, sits down with Tonya Hall to talk about IBM's latest 5 in 5 announcement.
The collaboration gives McCormick a way to speed up product development and give its 500-plus, global team of researchers a way to stay in sync. Read more: https://zd.net/2SytfNz
Facebook's ranking as the best place to work in the US takes a dive after 2018's scandals.
The machine learning system is being given a crash course in cybercriminal techniques.
IBM makes progress on chip fabrication without using lithography.
This deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan and Steven Vaughan-Nichols talk about the rationale behind IBM's purchase of Red Hat, how the open source community reacts, and whether the deal will live up to its advance billing.
Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM. Read more: https://zd.net/2Oxdguc
Microsoft's cloud growth is outpacing AWS but it is still way behind the top dog of cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft's latest financial results show that it is now bigger than IBM has ever been -- but Google got there first.
After providing precision oncology care fore more than 2,700 veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs and IBM are extending their partnership through at least June 2019.
There are hidden costs over time which make the bill far larger than you may expect.
The agreement, which is the largest ever IT contract signed by the federal government to date, will see IBM provide hardware, software, and cloud-based solutions. Read more: https://zd.net/2KulRQl
Oniqua specializes in inventory optimization software for asset-intensive industries such as mining, oil and gas, transportation, utilities, and manufacturing. Read more: https://zd.net/2t1xB1P
Lenovo's RD210 makes perfect sense if you're a small business that just needs a grunty all-purpose 1RU server.
While the interface of IBM's free office suite is sexy, its hunger for system resources and lack of features mean that OpenOffice.org 3 is still the best free office suite. Also, watch out for Symphony's lack of OOXML support.
Lenovo's first vPro-equipped desktop is smart looking, well designed and packs a lot of grunt. While there is not much room for expansion, the ThinkCentre M55p is already well equipped and the small form factor will be well received in a space conscious office.
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
The premium you pay is worth it: the ThinkPad T60 delivers a sturdy design, a complete range of network connectivity, top-shelf performance, long battery life, and just enough ports for the typical business user.
Businesses seeking a sturdy, secure, portable workhorse should consider the ThinkPad R60.
IBM's ultraportable notebook drops to 1.22kg and gains powerful rescue and recovery tools. Read our initial impressions.
IBM's Thinkpad A31p features the latest Pentium 4-M processor and a meaty graphics subsystem to go with it.
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