Tag: IBM

February 28, 2024

As IBM highlights, existing FlashSystem products already scan all incoming data as it is being written, without impacting performance. The new AI-enhanced FlashCore Module 4 (FCM) is even more advanced, continuously monitoring stats gathered from every single I/O to look […]

January 25, 2024

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in a large telecoms research lab, as part of the Advanced Local Loop group. Our problem domain was the “last mile”—getting services to peoples’ homes. One of my research areas involved thinking about […]

September 7, 2023

IBM has unveiled generative AI foundation models and Watsonx.ai generative AI enhancements to its Watsonx AI and data platforms. Announced September 7, IBM’s Granite series mutli-size foundation models use the “Decoder” architecture and apply generative AI to language and code […]

July 5, 2023

Since the Watson demonstration on the Jeopardy quiz show, IBM has attempted to position itself as a dominant player in the cloud and artificial intelligence business. The company has not achieved success in either field, and now Big Blue is […]

April 14, 2023

IBM has acquired Ahana, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based provider of PrestoDB, for an undisclosed sum. PrestoDB, or Presto, is an open source, distributed SQL query engine created at Facebook (now Meta) that is tailored for ad hoc analytics against data of […]

January 18, 2023

A report(opens in new tab) from IBM has claimed quantum computing poses an “existential risk” to the current encryption protocols that secure our most sensitive data, like digital transactions. Protocols like public key cryptography (PKC) are said to be vulnerable […]

November 22, 2022

IBM has filed a civil suit against partner Micro Focus in federal district court in New York, alleging that the British software company had violated its partnership agreement and violated IBM’s patents in selling its “Micro Focus Web Services.”The suit, […]

November 11, 2022

IBM has unveiled a 433 qubit quantum processor that it is championing as a breakthrough moment in the industry. Although still well below the power of what IBM hopes to achieve in future – it plans to have a 4,000 […]

July 27, 2022

Data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before, a wide-ranging study by IBM has found. Surveying 550 organizations from all over the world, the company claims that the global average cost of a data breach has now hit […]

July 12, 2022

IBM is expanding its Power10 line of enterprise servers, introducing new mid-range and scale-out systems. The tech giant said the new launches were engineered for data-intensive workloads such as SAP S/4HANA, and offers additional ways to implement dynamic capacity, including […]

May 10, 2022

IBM announced a revision of its (originally) 2020 quantum computing roadmap, bringing about a renewed focus in quantum computing scaling by doubling down on modularity and quantum-capable networking. In a day and age where delays are the norm, IBM’s re-commitment […]

April 20, 2022

Sharing files on Windows 11 will soon be even more secure as Microsoft has announced its plans to finally disable the SMB1 protocol in all editions of its operating system. For those unfamiliar, the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol was […]

January 25, 2022

Quantum computing, the next wave of computational power, is a little limited right now. Don’t just take that from us: IBM itself has said so in a research paper that proposes a method for increasing the applications available for quantum […]

November 15, 2021

The IBM Quantum Summit 2021 livestream is scheduled for tomorrow, but the quantum computing giant is already giving us an early look at what will be showcased during the event. Named Eagle, IBM’s new 127-qubit quantum processor is supposedly the […]

November 5, 2021

Use of single or private cloud has trended downward from 29% in 2019 to only 2% in 2021. This comes from a recent IBM study. In case you think I was burying the lead, this leads to the logical conclusion […]

May 28, 2021

A study by Ponemon and IBM indicates that misconfigured cloud servers cause 19% of data breaches. This is an expensive problem with an average cost of half a million dollars per breach. This figure does not consider the potential PR […]

February 22, 2021

As the old IT truism goes, nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Now, in the cloud era, many are starting to apply the same logic to another well-known vendor: Microsoft. For enterprises with extensive Microsoft footprints—spanning Office, Windows, Dynamics, […]

November 4, 2020

Looking to bring security and compliance analytics to devops, IBM has added its Code Risk Analyzer capability to its IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery service. Code Risk Analyzer is described by IBM as a security measure that can be configured to […]

October 15, 2020

Given the company is one year shy of its 110th birthday, there is no denying the endurance of the IBM brand, nor the huge amounts of reinvention the company has had to undergo over the years in order to achieve […]

October 9, 2020

IBM is splitting into two public companies, with a spin-off handling the firm’s legacy IT infrastructure work, allowing IBM to focus on new high-margin businesses, particularly cloud services and AI. The 109-year-old company announced the news this week, which follows […]