Over the past decade, the role of developers as agents of business and technological change qualifies as one of the tech industry’s biggest evolutionary shifts. It started with developers driving cloud computing and bring your own device (BYOD) adoption, then […]
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It’s hardly a secret that data center-focused vendors celebrate new generation server microprocessors and systems. Coming after years of development and tens of millions of dollars in investment, new systems highlight vendors’ essential capabilities and their success in expanding the
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I’m ex-IBM myself and it gives me great pleasure to see my old firm do well. Well this quarter they didn’t disappoint with significant improvement in their new business initiatives, which are just short of 50 percent of revenue. You
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and other computing forms that mimic human intelligence elicit so much interest and controversy that it’s easy to forget their reliance on highly complex and robust systems. That point underlies the breakthrough in Distributed Deep Learning (DDL)
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In more ways than one, IBM’s Z mainframe resembles Doctor Who’s Tardis in being “bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.” That isn’t mere rhetoric. Along with a physical presence that tends to make even the most
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People respect and even revere the IT industry for innovative computing products that regularly appear in the market. However, the availability of those solutions depends on equally or even more innovative manufacturing processes. That underscores a fundamental truth about commercial
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We often talk about current rivalries like Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft, but these pale next to some of the wars that have gone back decades. Granted the Sun vs. IBM war is long over and—surprisingly—IBM won. In fact, IBM
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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
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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
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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
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