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In his three part series, ServicesAngle editor Bert Latamore examines the transitions that IBM’s famous AI platform, Watson, underwent in the past two years. The synthetic Jeopardy! champion transformed from a bulky supercomputer into an artificial intelligence system that leverages powerful algorithms …
EMC + VMware: Turn Losing Assets into Golden Geese with Pivotal Spinoff
EMC and VMware invited industry analysts to New York this week in order to go over their reworked roadmap for the Pivotal Initiative, an upcoming joint venture between that two companies that was first announced in December last year. At the time …
EMC Does Right by XtremIO Buy : Analyst Calls It “Solid”
The datacenter is an ever-changing thing, striving for efficiency. One notable shift is now taking place in flash, where innovative startups like Fusion-io are at risk of losing their lead now that industry giants like EMC have validated flash with viable solutions …
Google’s Bevy of Personal Data Compromises Results in More “Awareness” Tools
This Tuesday Google settled a lawsuit that accused it of scooping data from unprotected WiFi networks as a part of its Street View mapping initiative, which was banned in Germany and a few other countries for fear that it would violate the privacy …
PaaS Boosts Developer Productivity, Infrastructure Utilization at Chase Bank
PaaS has taken another step towards establishing itself in the enterprise sector, where complex system deployments are often difficult to outsource. But recent improvements in PaaS technology has earned a big win with one of the finance industry’s biggest forces. Apprenda recently …
Daily Roundup: Mozilla Shuns iOS, Pinterest Traffic Analytics and More
Today’s most notable consumer tech updates include the launch of a new Pinterest feature for site owners, a bold revelation from Mozilla at SxSW, and the introduction of apps for Google Glass at the same event. SiliconAngle’s Kristin Feledy provided a full …
Here’s How HP Can Speed Up Its 5 Year Plan to Restructure
At Hewlett-Packard’s recent analyst gathering in Boston, the company’s top brass shared their plan to get the technology vendor back on the saddle. Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante was among the insiders who got an invite to the meeting. Vellante discussed his observations …
IBM’s CEO Says Big Data is Like Oil, Enterprises Need Help Extracting the Value
IBM chief executive officer Ginni Rometty regards analytics as a new source of competitive advantage for her company’s enterprise clientele. “I want you to think about data as the next natural resource,” Rometty told an audience of business leaders and lawmakers during …
Gartner Predicts Analytics Growth to Drop Significantly in 2013
In one of its latest reports, research firm Gartner projects that the global market for analytics and business intelligence will only grow 7 percent this year. That’s a significant drop from the 16 percent that Gartner reported for 2011, when big data …
Amazon Slashes Rates, Microsoft Shows Off Xbox 720 : Cloud Review
This week had a few very newsworthy highlights, including the latest from Amazon and VMware, a massive cloud funding round, and a major update about the much-expected Xbox 720. Amazon lowered the rates for its Reserved Instance service by 28 percent in …