The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), founded in 1911, manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
IBM’s putting on a charm offensive to win startups over to its cloud portfolio and SoftLayer’s bare metal options continue to appeal. But it still has a long, hard slog to… Read more »
So, the typewriter, an icon of a bygone, pre-PC era, is making a comeback among some government workers and young people revisiting the analog tools of the past. Read more »
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
Apple didn’t invent the smart phone, they just took the idea of a smartphone and jumped ahead a quantum leap. It’s a bit too much to say they perfected it, but they… Read more »
Enterprises can leverage bare metal clouds to have more control over cloud services, cost issues, better performance, and security concerns. Read more »
IBM said today that it will develop two new supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy that are based on IBM’s new Power servers and will contain NVIDIA GPU accelerators and… Read more »
On Thursday, during AWS re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Intel announced an exclusive Haswell processor designed specifically for Amazon. The Seattle giant said the new processors power its new EC2… Read more »
Intralinks VIA is a highly secure file sync-and-share application, and the company has released Intralinks VIA 2.0, driven by the goal of bridging the gap between an increasingly mobile workforce and… Read more »
IBM’s Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives personalized advice to users based on their genetic information, as… Read more »
The “WinShock” vulnerability has been around and exploitable for the better part of two decades. While there’s no evidence that it has been exploited, it can let attackers take over the… Read more »