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.
Back in January 2014, I wrote Things that didn’t happen, and what it means, reflecting on things that didn’t happen in 2013. Specifically, I argued that the work management marketplace hadn’t consolidated:… Read more »
Amazon definitely wants enterprises to adopt its cloud, but it’s still wooing little startups too. This week, it said it will issue $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credit to any student who completes qualifying… Read more »
Apprenda, which started out as a .NET-and-Windows-focused Platform-as-a-Service but has since opened up to other languages and technologies, continues to broaden its horizon. A new partnership with Piston Cloud gives it an entry into the OpenStack… Read more »
Gigaom’s Structure Data conference is just three months away — March 18 and 19 in New York — and it’s looking like our fifth one will be the best one yet. The… Read more »
Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its third quarter, has managed to pull off a tricky… Read more »
It’s safe to say that Docker has had a momentous year with the container-management startup gaining a lot of developer interest and scoring a… Read more »
IBM says it has developed a machine learning system that identified images of skin cancer with better than 95 percent accuracy in experiments, and it’s now teaming up with doctors to… Read more »
Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about? It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim data center expansion to fuel its effort to offer… Read more »
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is working with IBM to analyze hundreds of thousands of VA hospital medical records using the Watson cognitive computing system. Improving the diagnosis and treatment of Post-Traumatic… Read more »