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New IBM Big Data Predictive Analytics and Consulting Service Focuses on Taking Infrastructure Maintenance out of the Break/Fix Era
The largest hidden problem in business, government, and society in general today is infrastructure maintenance and repair. Every machine and structure ages every day, every part gets a little weaker and more worn, everything that businesses and societies depend on moves a little closer to its failure date. Most of this wear and normal aging ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 20, 2013
EMC Announces “Heritage Trust” Grant Recipients EMC has announced grants to three local organizations — the Centro de Documentacion de las Artes Escenicas (Chile), Help Georgie Go Digital (Canada), and Caffe Lena History Project (New York) — from the EMC Heritage Trust Project. The grants will support projects that practice and encourage the stewardship of ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 19, 2013
IBM Completes Acquisition of Star Analytics IBM today announced completion of the software portfolio of Star Analytics Inc., a privately held business analytics company centered in Redwood City, California. The purchase will further advance IBM’s business analytics initiatives, allowing clients to easily access financial information stored in their applications, allowing them to make more informed ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 18, 2013
Moscow RR Chooses HP Software for Suburban Rail Moscow Railways (MZD) has raised quality and safety levels for its suburban transportation network with a single automated management system based on HP Service Manager software. MZD, an affiliate of JSC Russian Railways, is responsible for 60.4 percent of suburban transportation across Russia, averaging 1.4 million passengers ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 15, 2013
EMC Wins Environmental Design Award for Durham Center of Excellence EMC Corp. has earned a LEED Gold — Commercial Interiors certification for Phases 1 and 2 of its 450,000 sq. ft. Center of Excellence in Durham, North Carolina. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building rating and certification system ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 14, 2013
Infosys Expands in Germany with BMW Group Contract BMW Group has selected Infosys as its worldwide partner for application basis infrastructure management services. The five-year engagement will cover such services as maintenance and operations of the Web infrastructure, content management, SAP Basis operations, management of the company’s internal IT system, and BI. More Ethisphere Institute ...
EMC, VMware Define Strategy for Pivotal Moment
EMC and VMware are facing a pivotal year in more than one way writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in “The Pivotal Move for EMC and VMware”. In one sense, of course, they are literally approaching a “pivot point” with the impending April 1 opening of their joint venture, Pivotal Inc. This will involve strategic realignment ...
IBM’s Vision for Watson in Healthcare
Ed. Note: This is the third installment in a three-part report exploring IBM’s so far two-year project to create the ultimate diagnostic and individualized treatment engine for lung, breast, and blood cancer patients using its unique Watson natural language cognitive engine. The first part defined the challenge and discussed why the Watson team has taken ...
IBM Big Data Analytics Brings New Hope for Victims of Traumatic Brain Injury
More than 1.7 million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year from causes ranging from concussions to bullet wounds according to the Centers for Disease Control. Of those, about 52,000 die, 275,000 are hospitalized, and 1.367 million are treated and released from an emergency department. TBI is a contributing factor ...
What is Watson?
Ed. Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series exploring IBM’s multi-year project to create the ultimate Big Data patient diagnostic and treatment plan tool using its unique Watson natural language cognitive system. The first part defined the scope of the problem. This part will look at what Watson is and what makes ...