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IBM Corp. is making big bets on machine learning, with recent announcements about moving its cognitive computing platform Watson to the mainframe and combining its Data Science Experience with Hortonworks Inc.’s big data management platform. However, as one prominent computer researcher told a …
IBM pushes speed and governance buttons at Munich conference
Speed and governance were the major themes coming out of the IBM Fast Track Your Data event in Munich, Germany, this week. Keynote speakers made several announcements designed to promote IBM Corp.’s data management portfolio and strengthen its marketing position on machine …
Open-source software may save money, but what about monetization?
While the open-source delivery model has emerged as a highly popular success, the problem remains that free downloadable software does not usually lead to revenue. But a growing number of cloud network entrepreneurs are becoming convinced that focusing their efforts on providing …
Teradata’s challenge: How to get value from deep learning results
It’s one thing to apply deep learning and artificial intelligence tools to data. It’s another to realize meaningful results that can make a real difference in your business. Teradata Corp. is seeking to address the value proposition by focusing on use cases …
Cloud Foundry woos developers with Google and Microsoft agreements
In today’s multi-cloud world, there is a premium on making an already highly complex information technology infrastructure simpler. Developers want to move software applications across clouds without having to write or adapt new code. That’s why recent news involving a Kubernetes — …
Will ThinkAgile help Lenovo redefine the software-defined space?
With the announcement of ThinkAgile, a new brand for software-defined products, Lenovo Group Ltd. is drawing a line in the sand between its offerings and those of legacy system vendors. Companies who have built their business on selling rich, customized products may …
Lenovo clarifies its enterprise strategy at Transform event
Lenovo Group Ltd.’s transition from a successful consumer products company to a major player in enterprise computing has been clouded in the past by more questions than answers. But the company made significant progress today in clarifying its enterprise strategy, while going …
AtScale’s work with GoDaddy yields interesting BI results
When AtScale Inc. released its “Hadoop Maturity Survey” in 2015, some industry observers were surprised that business intelligence had become the number one workload on the open source platform for big data management, Hadoop (in front of data science), given the problems …
Lenovo marks quarter century of x86 by announcing largest server portfolio
Lenovo Group Ltd. threw a birthday party for itself today by announcing a significant expansion of the company’s server portfolio on the 25th anniversary of the x86 introduction by IBM Corp. (Lenovo acquired the x86 server portfolio in 2014.) The news was accompanied …
Data’s value? It’s all about the end game, says Dean of Big Data
Most of us have heard about the “three V’s” of data: volume, variety and velocity. Yet there’s a fourth “V” that is getting plenty of attention these days, especially in the C-suite: value. This is leading one particular executive at Dell EMC to …