It won’t be long before we are up to our virtual necks in AIs and at NVIDIA’s GTC this week IBM stepped up with a new platform called PowerAI which targets AI developers and sort of performs the role of […]
IBM Launches PowerAI as AI ‘Midwife’ Read More »
Reducing or eliminating complexity and risk are critical issues in the IT industry, especially when it comes to emerging technologies. Doing so is important for both short and long term strategies since success often leads customers into trying on new
IBM & Continuum Squeeze Complexity and Risk Out of Cognitive Development Read More »
Late last month the United Kingdom filed Article 50, officially notifying Europe of its intent to leave the European Union. This will most certainly impact the global economy, but can we trust our current forecasting systems to prepare us for
Article 50: Can Legacy Forecasting Systems Prepare Us for the Impact of Brexit? Read More »
Like the other 125+ industry analysts attending the recent IBM InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, I attended various keynote speeches, partner panels, product updates and client meetings, but I found two sessions with IBM executives particularly interesting. The first
Lessons from IBM InterConnect – Disruption is Inevitable Read More »
One of the inherent problems with IBM’s Power Systems Computing effort was its focus on the processor. This makes sense for companies like AMD and Intel which, at their heart, are processor companies but for IBM—a solutions company—this effectively crippled
IBM Power Systems Grows Up to Be Cognitive Computing Read More »
Watch the IT industry long enough and you develop a healthy skepticism for anything labeled “new” or “unique” but now and then something thoroughly different than most anything that has gone before comes along. A few cases offer such clear
IBM Builds the Case and Market for Quantum Computing Read More »
The drumbeat of services, press releases and strategic partnerships related to machine learning processes and deep learning frameworks shouldn’t surprise anyone with an eye on IT markets. Both machine and deep learning efforts reflect the increasing interest and momentum around
IBM: Machine Learning and the Mainframe Read More »
The right data–used in the right way–can be crucial to making effective business decisions. Gathering the wrong metrics, or gathering too much data with no intelligent way to separate important or actionable information from trivial data can be devastating. Metrics
Security Metrics and the Sinking of the Titanic Read More »
Decision-making is the very essence of business. Decisions matter, from setting out a company’s high-level strategic vision to executing on its most basic daily operations. Every decision is accompanied by uncertainty and risk, because decision-makers must simultaneously decide which paths
Buy-In Matters in Business Decision-Making Read More »
There’s a security revolution underway in the United States. In an attempt to reduce credit card fraud, retailers everywhere are transitioning from legacy magnetic strip cards to the more secure chip-and-PIN system. Under this new threat cyber criminals are picking
Human Identifiers Power Data Protection in the War on Rising Card Fraud Read More »
