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 is launching its generically named IoT Foundation product to act as a repository for device data and to provide a secure way to share that data between services. Read more »
One thing is for sure, we can expect to see much more of cloud consolidation and disruption happening in the IT space over the coming months and years. Recently, Cisco, EMC,… Read more »
The week in cloud: Amazon has said that live migration would not have averted last month’s cloud reboots. But folks are betting it’s working on the technology just the same. Read more »
IBM has announced a long list of new Watson customers and startup partners, ranging from standby industries such as health care to new ones such as cybersecurity and nonprofits. Perhaps more… Read more »
The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
Fresh off a recent $40 million funding round, cloud darling Docker just bought a small startup that the company feels fits in nicely with its focus on making application development easier… Read more »
Andrew Spyker, who’s already won the vaunted Netflix Cloud Monkey award, liked it so much he’s joining the company as a member of its cloud platform engineering team. Read more »
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning’s Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP’s impending split into two public companies. Read more »
The new OpenPower Foundation sanctioned Power S824L server comes loaded with IBM’s POWER8 processor and Nvidia’s GPU accelerator and will be aimed at the webscale crowd. Read more »
This PC spreadsheet had a great run in the late 1980s, but it’s been under the radar for years — succumbing to the Microsoft-Excel-and-Office onslaught. Now, IBM is officially ending support. Read more »