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Tape Storage Spec Jumps to 15TB

Data storage licensing specifications released this week by a consortium of technology companies would boost tape storage capacity for archival and other long-term storage to as much as 15 terabytes. The LTO (Linear T Read more…

Apache Spark Gets IBM Mainframe Connection

IBM's recent embrace of Apache Spark is beginning to generate dividends in the form of open source contributions for a mainframe big data link to Spark. Big data software vendor Syncsort, Woodcliff Lake, N.J., said Tu Read more…

Funding Big Data Projects Using IBM Global Financing (IGF)

Sponsored Content by IBM

All companies and organizations face the challenge of extracting the maximum return from their capital investments. Flexible financing options can help minimize up-front payments and better align project outlays with the Read more…

Struggling Under Multiple Databases? Get Used To It

Programmers are a fickle bunch. One day they're all using Java, and the next day Python is the hot new thing. While developers indelibly will dabble in different languages, we're now seeing them do similar things with da Read more…

Funding Big Data Projects Using IBM Global Financing

Sponsored Content by IBM

All companies and organizations face the challenge of extracting the maximum return from their capital investments. Flexible financing options can minimize up-front payments and better align project outlays with the anti Read more…

IBM, Databricks Join Forces to Advance Spark

IBM has jumped on the Apache Spark bandwagon, revealing it would throw its considerable weight behind the open source in-memory processing framework that has been gaining momentum over the last year. Separately, Datab Read more…

IBM Pre-Fab Analytics Targets Vertical Markets

IBM is retargeting retailers, banks, telecommunications carriers and the energy sector with a package of 20 "pre-built" predictive analytics capabilities tailored to specific industry requirements. The vertical analytics Read more…

NOAA Launches Big Data Project

A big data project launched by the U.S. Commerce Department brings together major cloud analytics vendors and the Open Cloud Consortium to develop infrastructure needed to access the more than 20 terabytes of satellite w Read more…

Intel Says Upgraded Haswells Will Speed Analytics

The new Xeon processors unveiled today by Intel will find their way into a number of applications. But one of the most prominent uses will be powering the next-generation of real-time analytics, the chip giant says. Encr Read more…

Building an IT Foundation for Big Data Success

We are in the midst of a major transformation in the business landscape, one that's being driven by disruptive technologies such as cloud and mobile computing, social media, and big data analytics, says Jacqueline Woods, Read more…

One on One with IBM’s Global VP for Data Analytics

As the Global Vice President of Systems Software and Growth Solutions for IBM, Jacqueline Woods has a tremendous amount of influence over a $12-billion portfolio of cloud, mobile, and big data solutions. Woods, who deliv Read more…

IBM Embraces Hadoop in ‘BigInsight’ Push

IBM jumped onto the Hadoop bandwagon this week with the introduction of its BigInsights for Apache Hadoop offering along with machine learning with R statistical computing and other features designed to handle data analy Read more…

IBM Targets Predictive Analytics at Hiring, Retention

As it builds more data analytics into its cloud infrastructure, IBM is trying to leverage predictive analytics as a new recruitment tool to help companies find and attract top talent. IBM said it is now offering a tal Read more…

Military Insurer USAA Embraces IBM’s Watson

IBM said this week it is expanding commercialization of its Watson cognitive computing technology through a deal with military financial services provider USAA that will result in what IBM said will be Watson's first com Read more…

As Pollution Worsens, China Turns to Big Data

You've got to see, smell, feel Beijing's smog to believe it. Looking out a high window of a tall building, the air is opaque. Despite rules against them, vendors cook and sell food on side streets using charcoal grill Read more…

IBM Makes A $1-Billion Bet To Make Watson A Business

For the past two years, since its Watson question-answer system went on the Jeopardy! game show and beat the two best humans at this game, an IBM team with a few hundred people centered in Austin, Texas, has been working on ways to commercialize Watson and put it to work. With the launch of the Watson Group inside of IBM today in New York, Watson is entering its third phase, where IBM is investing $1 billion over several years to extend the technologies underpinning Watson and get them into mainstream products and services. Read more…

IBM Takes BLU In-Memory Database to the Cloud

IBM this week rolled out a cloud-based version of its BLU in-memory database that's designed to provide users with a low-cost options for data warehousing and BI. The company also unveiled a host of other big data analytics and cognitive computing offerings--and made some big Hadoop performance claims--at its annual Information OnDemand shindig in Las Vegas. Read more…

IBM Hits the Throttle on Big Data Discovery With New Lab

Aiming to hasten the pace of discovery for its clients, IBM today announced the launch of its newest big data proving ground. Designated the “Accelerated Discovery Lab,” the new venture aims to leverage IBM’s significant computing capabilities to help clients open the throttle on their big data discovery processes. Read more…

IBM to Rain $1 Billion into Linux and Open Source for Big Data

Citing the desire to help clients capitalize on big data and cloud computing, IBM announced this week at LinuxCon its intention to shovel another $1 billion (USD) over the next four or five years into new Linux and open source technologies for the company’s Power Systems servers. Read more…

IBM Ships Hadoop Appliance for the Big-Skills Challenged

One of the side effects of the massive run-up in Hadoop deployments is the creation of a big skills shortage. IBM claims to have addressed part of that shortage with the general availability of an all-in-one Hadoop appliance that will relieve users of some of the burdens of deploying, programming, and managing a Hadoop environment. Read more…

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