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IBM makes a 10-year, $240M investment in artificial intelligence research at MIT

IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership… Read More

How cloud and data center providers are dealing with Hurricane Harvey

As Houston continues to deal with the widespread and devastating impacts of Hurricane Harvey, the rain, wind, and flooding affecting… Read More

IBM opens four new data centers around the world as it chases cloud leaders

IBM is set to open four new data centers in California, London, and Sydney, as it tries to stay competitive… Read More

China's Taihu Light supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world as of November 2016, capable of hitting 93 peta-flops (floating-point operations per second). (Top 500 photo)

These six tech companies are getting $258M from the DOE to research exascale computing

Hoping to beat China to the development of the first production-ready exascale computer, the U.S. Department of Energy plans to… Read More

When standards aren’t standard: Inside a growing movement to shape the booming cloud industry

What’s the best way to shepherd the promising technologies underpinning a sea change in computing? The Cloud Native Computing Foundation… Read More

A dashboard for Istio, a new project for monitoring microservices.

IBM, Google, and Lyft team up on open-source project for more control over microservices

After years of evangelizing microservices as the path to a more nimble development organization, companies are realizing they need to… Read More

Nutanix adding IBM’s Power processors to its data center bundles for AI applications

Nutanix plans to release a line of server appliances with IBM’s Power processor for artificial-intelligence applications, the first time it… Read More

Serverless computing might finally deliver on the promise of the cloud

The original promise of cloud computing was simple: no longer would you need to buy, configure, and maintain racks and… Read More

How IBM is using its Watson AI platform to automatically generate Masters highlight reels

IBM is using new technology to help speed up the highlight reel production process at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta,… Read More

IBM Cloud to offer NVIDIA’s advanced GPU accelerator, vowing to solve previously impossible data challenges

IBM says it will become the first major cloud provider to offer NVIDIA’s Tesla P100 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator worldwide… Read More

IBM in the cloud: Inside the tech giant’s quest to stand out against Amazon, Microsoft and Google

LAS VEGAS — IBM CEO Ginni Rometty seemed this week to be the living embodiment of what could be the company’s… Read More

Twitter starts using IBM’s Watson technology to help identify bullies who tweet

LAS VEGAS — Twitter wants to do a better job of policing bullies who tweet, and Twitter vice-president of data strategy… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks ‘crisis of trust’ in the world and jobs in the era of AI

Artificial intelligence is going to transform and impact many jobs, and it is up to the companies building the technology… Read More

IBM announces new data center in China, aims to use Watson to beat out cloud competitors

The cloud is becoming a bigger part of IBM’s business, and the technology giant is expanding its data center offerings.… Read More

Actor and musician Will Smith explains how he honed his career with data, ‘like an African American Watson’

LAS VEGAS — At a conference full of news on cloud storage, enterprise device management and other technical advances, Will Smith… Read More

IBM aims to undercut AWS and Azure with new ‘Flex’ cloud storage service

LAS VEGAS — IBM unveiled a raft of new products and services at its InterConnect conference here today, aimed at making it easier… Read More

IBM and Salesforce connect Watson and Einstein in new artificial intelligence alliance

IBM and Salesforce will work together on artificial intelligence under a surprise partnership announced this afternoon. The companies will combine aspects… Read More

IBM plans to deliver ‘industry first’ quantum computers via the cloud

IBM today unveiled plans to build commercially-available quantum computer systems for business and science that will be accessed via the IBM… Read More

Cash or Watson? IBM and Visa bringing AI-based purchasing to cars, running shoes and other objects

IBM is partnering with credit card giant Visa to spread the use of its IBM Watson supercomputing and artificial intelligence… Read More

IBM scores cloud contract with U.S. Army that could be worth $62M

[Editor’s Note: A reference in the headline to the financial value of the contract has been corrected since the original post.] Big… Read More

Samsung, not IBM, tops US patent wins in 2016, says Seattle public records startup Sqoop

Samsung and its subsidiaries won the most patents of any company in 2016, according to a new report from Sqoop,… Read More

For 24th straight year, IBM granted most U.S. patents, but Microsoft and Amazon are gaining

IBM is once again the king of patents, according to a new report, but other tech giants, including Pacific Northwest… Read More

IBM’s Watson Internet of Things engine scores top ranking in new analyst study

In trying to enlarge its share of the public-cloud market, IBM has put a lot of emphasis on its Watson Internet… Read More

Study: AWS has 45% share of public cloud infrastructure market — more than Microsoft, Google, IBM combined

Amazon Web Services holds a 45 percent share of the worldwide public market for Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) —… Read More

IBM says its new Cloud Object Storage allows easily moving and splitting data

IBM has announced Cloud Object Storage, a service it said lets organizations store large volumes of unstructured data on any combination… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and IBM launch Partnership on AI to advance understanding and best practices

The “opportunities and challenges” of artificial intelligence spurred some of the biggest technology companies in the world to come together… Read More

Microsoft sees ‘staggering’ potential for blockchain technology as it releases new ‘Bletchley’ template

Microsoft has released version 1 of Bletchley template for Azure, which lets users create a distributed-ledger, or blockchain, network with minimal knowledge… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

Microsoft Azure just behind Amazon Web Services in Gartner’s new IaaS rankings; Google is a distant third

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking… Read More