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.
RBC Capital Markets boils down the basics of cloud computing — storage, compute, I/O and a few other features — to come up with one unit of cloud pricing that can… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, hear how Talko stood on the shoulders of AWS and Azure — and wielded the Opus codec, WebRTC, FreeSwitch and other open-source tools to build an… Read more »
Both companies said they’ve had to be cagey about the Xen vulnerability until now, but offered a bit more information about the patching process and — in Rackspace’s case — an… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer is addressing the same Xen hypervisor vulnerability that sparked reboots by Amazon Web Services and Rackspace — but it’s doing so days later. Read more »
In an unusual move, Tibco has announced that the firm has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $4.3 billion, the largest buyout in tech this year. The sale followed a… Read more »
Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture… Read more »
With the new Helium software, the OpenDaylight Project wants to make its version of software defined networking the de-facto standard for the tech industry. Read more »
The tech world is excited about the smart home, but for most consumers, the idea of paying more for a connected device that doesn’t offer much new functionality and opens them… Read more »
IBM SoftLayer’s hybrid bare-metal/cloud infrastructure and free internal networking wins some converts, but it still has a long way to go in the AWS-obsessed world of startups. Read more »