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IBM Is Investing $3bn Over The Next 5 Years to Push The Limits of Chip Technology
Aug 20, 2014IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
Tags: IBM, Big-Data Systems
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The EMBRACE+ Bracelet Keeps You Informed Via a Series of Visual Alerts
May 15, 2013The EMBRACE+ bracelet keeps you informed via a series of visual alerts from your 100% waterproof bracelet. Leave your smartphone in your pocket or purse and let Embrace+ do the work. Created by two technology loving designers, Paul & Rudy, ...
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Facebook's Engineers Have Many Challenges Ahead of Them Because of Graph Search
Feb 25, 2013Facebook's engineers have many challenges ahead of them as they work to scale up Graph Search, the site's new social search tool. One stumbling block: an over-abundance of data to sift through. Take the example of searching for Japanese ...
Tags: Facebook, social search tool, company news
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Infosys Is Research Arm of IT Business Consulting Firm Infosys, Headquartered in India
Feb 4, 2013There is a shortage of big data modellers as well as data scientists, according to the senior vice president of IT research firm Infosys Labs, Subu Goparaju. Infosys Labs is the research arm of IT business consulting firm Infosys, ...
Tags: data modellers, IT research, Infosys Labs
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IBM Has Rolled out a Tool It Says Can Cull Massive Terabytes of Data
Feb 1, 2013IBM has rolled out a tool it says can cull massive terabytes of data, including email — to help customers detect external attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information or insider threats that might reveal corporate secrets. The ...
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Facebook Has Proposed a New Model for Designing Servers
Jan 21, 2013Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
Tags: Facebook, Buying Servers, upgrade system
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Action for Children Has Chosen Cloud Provider Rackspace to Tackle Its Big Data Challenges
Jan 18, 2013UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...
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CIO Will Speak Together at The National Retail Federation'S Annual Convention in New York
Jan 10, 2013QuantiSense, the leading provider of retail analytics and decision orchestration solutions, announced that Reitmans CIO, Diane Randolph, and QuantiSense CEO, Jeff Buck, will be speaking together at the National Retail Federation’s ...
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Big Data, Algorithms and Sports Analysis Were Among The Topics of Discussion
Dec 26, 2012New York-based political statistician and author Nate Silver was a special guest speaker at IBM's Information On Demand conference. Big data, algorithms and sports analysis were among the topics of discussion. Conference MC Jason Silva ...
Tags: political statistician, Nate Silver, IBM, Big data, sports analysis
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BAG Data Management Was Becoming a Big Problem
Dec 24, 2012Strict standards in Germany Storage from Hitachi Data Systems Cost recovery Viability test and TrueCopy Licence Hitachi Dynamic Tiering For the German Federal Office for Freight Transport - BAG - data management was becoming a big ...
Tags: BAG, storage virtualisation, IT team, public sector
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Actian Corporation Today Announced That Vectorwise 2.5 Is Generally Available for Download
Dec 20, 2012Actian Corporation today announced that Vectorwise 2.5, the latest update of the record-breaking performance database, is generally available for download. Now even more well-equipped to tackle Big Data challenges, Vectorwise 2.5 delivers ...
Tags: Actian Corporation, database, data management, benchmark
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Top Ten Stories That Defined The Cloud Computing Sector in 2012
Dec 20, 20122012 was the year cloud computing hit the mainstream.More users started adopting cloud-based services and vendors intensified competition by launching aggressive price wars for market share. Enterprises and public sector organisations ...
Tags: cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DBaas
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IBM Announced a Number of New Add-Ons and Services
Dec 19, 2012At IBM’s Information On Demand and Business Analytics Forum, being held this week in Las Vegas, the company announced a number of new add-ons and services designed to help organisations analyse their expanding data sets more quickly. ...
Tags: analysis, business analytics, data, IBM, information
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IBM Has Developed a New Chip Which Will Use Light Rather Than Electrical Signals
Dec 11, 2012The new technology can feed a number of parallel optical data streams into a single fiber IBM has developed a new chip which will use light rather than electrical signals to transmit the data for future computing speeding up internet data ...
Tags: IBM, new chip, silicon nanophotonics, single silicon chip
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IBM Has Invented a Chip That Combines Photonics and Silicon on a Single 90 nm Die
Dec 10, 2012IBM has invented a chip that combines photonics and silicon on a single 90 nanometer(nm)die,which is capable of transferring data at 25Gbps. The so-called silicon nanophotonics device(shown below)allows the integration of different ...
Tags: IBM, Silicon, Optical Nanotechnology