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Over the past few weeks I’ve written several articles on the good and bad of artificial intelligence. On the good side there are projects that make our lives easier; on the bad, there are things that could end our lives. But possibly the most useful of all artificial intelligence applications is what IBM Watson and…
In a definitive “world’s first” achievement, Maryland-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Local Motors teams up with IBM Watson Internet of Things to offer a first of its kind experience to residents of National Harbor, MD. Dubbed Olli, the vehicle is the first EV – or any kind of vehicle, for that matter – that has…
At U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Summit held today, IBM Watson Health and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs announced a collaboration that will help VA doctors identify the best genome-based treatment for 10,000 war veterans with cancer over the next two years. The public-private initiative, involving IBM’s Watson for Genomics technology, will…
On May 24, IBM announced that it is collaborating with Twilio to offer two key services on the latter’s marketplace that was launched earlier this year. According to IBM’s press release, the two services that will be offered – IBM Watson Message Sentiment and IBM Watson Message Insights – will be made available as add-ons…
At Moogfest 2016 this past week, IBM described a number of new developments that IBM Watson is now featuring. According to IBM Watson team spokesperson Ally Schneider, Watson now features a number of AI improvements including 30 open-source APIs across four categories: language, speech, vision, and data insights. “Watson has the ability to read through…
IBM announced today that the company will be partnering with Slack to allow developers to build bots and other conversational interfaces. Both companies are working towards creating an updated ‘Slackbot’ that will be powered by Watson, as well as a Watson-enabled bot for IT and network operations. We have heard of the rat race, the…
IBM’s Watson has just enrolled in eight universities in order to “beef up” its security skills during a year-long research project. In a company announcement, IBM says that students and faculty at the schools will be participating in research to train Watson in “learning the nuances of security research findings and discovering patterns and evidence…
IBM announced today that it will be building quantum computing systems and making them available for commercial use. The computing service, which will be delivered via IBM’s cloud platform, will allow users to connect to IBM’s quantum processor, enabling them to run algorithms and experiments, working with individual quantum bits. According to IBM’s press release:…
IBM Analytics is a monster unit in its own right. In 2016, IBM reported $19.5 billion in revenues from the segment. That’s more than the total revenue that a top tech company like Salesforce makes; in fact, it’s even more than what Amazon AWS, the leader in public cloud infrastructure, earns every year. IBM Analytics…
The cloud computing industry surged strongly in 2016, and if the last quarter of 2016 is anything to go by, 2017 holds a lot of promise for the segment as a whole, especially for the top three cloud service providers Amazon, Microsoft and IBM, as well as vertical SaaS players such as Salesforce. First let’s…
IBM Analytics, which focuses on big data solutions, is huge by any standards. In the last three quarters, revenues from the division totalled $13.9 billion. In comparison, Salesforce, the CRM leader, made only $6.67 billion during full fiscal 2016, while Microsoft’s annualized cloud revenue run rate just exceeded $13 billion during the most recent quarter….
About 8 months ago, when I spoke to IBM’s Cloud CTO Dr. Jim Comfort about IBM’s cloud initiatives, one of the things that struck me was the emphasis he placed on IBM’s strategy in the hybrid cloud space. His assertions of nearly a year ago are now increasingly becoming reality in a world where the…
In this cloud industry review series, I’ve been talking about the biggest players in cloud, the edge they have over the competition, the pace at which they’ve been growing and where they are as at the end of 2016 – the Year of Cloud. The first article covered cloud infrastructure industry leader Amazon Web Services,…
IBM’s focus on hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions has finally paid off. Tech market research firm Frost & Sullivan has bestowed the Cloud Company of the Year Award for 2016 on the 105-year-old Armonk, New York-based technology giant for its “market leadership in delivering a complete and fully integrated stack of cloud services including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS,”…
GM and IBM this week announced that they will use IBM Watson to give GM’s OnStar navigation system a booster shot of artificial intelligence. OnStar Go, as it’s being called, will essentially be a “brand experience” where the car connects users to various products and brands on the go. Right now, the OnStar AtYourService function does…