Red Hat Acquisition Gives IBM A Much-Needed Booster Shot Of Open Source And Cloud DNA
Forrester IT
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Yesterday, IBM announced its intention to purchase Red Hat for $34B.
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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
The following press release announces IBM’s intent to Acquire Cloudant: ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., Cloudant could not have found a better home than IBM.” – bg. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups
CTOvision
JULY 21, 2015
The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.
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IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry » Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 24, 2013
Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry.
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IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security
Network World
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. Learn how server disaggregation can boost data center efficiency and how Windows Server 2019 embraces hyperconverged data centers. |
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The IBM Press Release on Spark That Every Tech Leader Should Read
CTOvision
JUNE 15, 2015
IBM just announced a major new push around Apache Spark. You know Spark, the free and open source complement to Apache Hadoop that gives enterprises better ability to field fast, unified applications that combine multiple workloads, including streaming over all your data. I was really surprised.
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IBM releases Qiskit modules that use quantum computers to improve machine learning
Venture Beast
APRIL 9, 2021
IBM is releasing Qiskit Machine Learning, a new application module that's part of its open source quantum software. Read More.
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143 Identity Relationship Management Market to Exceed $50 Billion by 2020
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, ForgeRock expects an increase in the number of applications serving each device, driving an increase in identity revenue per device — approximately $50 billion in total opportunity. Cloud Computing CTO Cyber Security Open Source Startup News Forgerock IBM RSA Scott McNealy Sun Microsystems'
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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 25, 2024
In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl.
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As mainframe application development grows, so does the security risk
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2024
A Rocket Software survey found that over half (51%) of IT leaders rely on mainframe systems to handle all, or nearly all, core business applications. Let’s imagine a hacker exploits a vulnerability found in a program running in IBM z/OS. Once hackers find their way into the mainframe, it’s easy for it to go unnoticed.
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How to modernize and accelerate mainframe application development
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 9, 2023
With that in mind, what can businesses do to modernize their applications effectively? Tap into open-source software Mainframe-dependent businesses often think that open source is just for cloud-based products – but that assumption is incorrect. Success hinges on development support.
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IBM-HashiCorp: Shareholder lawsuit seeks to derail $6.4 billion acquisition
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 12, 2024
IBM announced its plans for the acquisition in April , offering $35 per share in cash for HashiCorp. It said that HashiCorp’s infrastructure provisioning application, Terraform, would bolster its software business and complement its Red Hat division. However, Graff’s lawsuit suggests a different narrative.
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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 24, 2022
He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. Each houses an IBM z15 system. The first is to run transaction-intensive banking applications, including bank statements, deposits, mobile banking, debit-card processing, and loan payments.
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NASA, IBM team up to build LLMs that can help fight climate change
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 3, 2023
IBM on Thursday said it has partnered with the US space agency NASA to co-develop a foundation large language model based on geospatial data that it claims will help scientists and their organizations fight climate change. The open source model, which will be available on Hugging Face , was developed on IBM’s watsonx.ai
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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List
CTOvision
OCTOBER 18, 2013
H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. Alpine’s lightweight web application does this by leveraging the parallel processing power of Hadoop and MPP databases. We list our methodologies at the end of the list. The Analyst One Top Technologies List. Amazon and Microsoft.
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OpenTofu: Liberating IaC and DevOps beyond Terraform
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 31, 2024
These form the supporting infrastructure that enable developers to deliver rapidly scalable applications using a unified set of tools and best practices. This decision was met with massive pushback from the community , who wanted Terraform to retain an open source license and let the product be shaped by the community.
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Cloudera jockeys for AI platform prominence
Network World
OCTOBER 10, 2024
That means that using one single hyperscaler’s AI stack can limit enterprise IT options when it comes to deploying AI applications. In June, the company acquired Verta’s Operational AI platform, which helps companies turn their data into AI-ready custom RAG applications. However, Cloudera could not disclose customer names at this time.
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Why NoSQL Is The Wrong Choice For A CIO — Sometimes
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 21, 2013
Open source noSQL databases seem to appear to be the solution to all of their data processing needs. This is where the door of opportunity opens for noSQL databases. Post tags: ACID , BASE , data , databases , hype , IBM , Microsoft , noSQL , open source , Oracle , relational databases , structured data.
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Is the cloud seducing software giants into the enemy lair?
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 12, 2024
At that time, Oracles perceived rival was IBM. It seemed fairly harmless as open-source coders played one language against another. From source-available to open source Growing from that point, can we lean on genAI to help convert SAP and Oracle custom code to open source?
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Your car is about to go open source
Galido
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.
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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing
Cloud Musings
JUNE 29, 2017
Did you know that the reservations systems of the biggest carriers mostly run on a specialized IBM operating system known as Transaction Processing Facility (TPF). Designed by IBM in the 1960’s it was designed to process a large numbers of transactions quickly.
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Gartner: Network automation to increase threefold by 2026
Network World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The application of automation across infrastructure and operations will deliver significant gains, according to Gartner. Technology providers that offer best-of-breed tools for AI for IT operations (AIOps), application performance monitoring, and genAI will influence AI,” Gartner’s Saunderson said in a statement. IBM drops $6.4B
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Getting ahead of cyberattacks with a DevSecOps approach to web application security
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 20, 2023
Web applications are foundational to a company’s business and brand identity yet are highly vulnerable to digital attacks and cybercriminals. As such, it’s vital to have a robust and forward-leaning approach to web application security. According to IBM , a single data breach costs $9.4 What is DevSecOps?
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Truly Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools You Can Use Today
CTOvision
DECEMBER 28, 2015
IBM is also investing heavily in AI, with Watson the most famous result. Most of these firms seem to be on one of two paths: Success, which will mean being acquired by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or IBM, or failure, which will see them acquired by the same firms for their talent. are making it so easy for others to create and field AI.
3 Case studies demonstrate the power of modern enterprise content management
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 21, 2024
The solution provides electronic file and records management capabilities that integrate seamlessly with the company’s core insurance applications, automating everything from document retrieval to records management. With support from Hyland Professional Services, the bank migrated 2.5 It’s enabled us like a force multiplier.
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Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z
Tech Republic
AUGUST 21, 2023
Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 80 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data.
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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 14, 2023
The exam tests knowledge of Cloudera Data Visualization, Cloudera Machine Learning, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, and Cloudera Data Warehouse, as well as SQL, Apache Nifi, Apache Hive, and other open source technologies. The exam consists of 40 questions and the candidate has 120 minutes to complete it.
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Getting your enterprise ready for the real AI
Network World
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
For more and more enterprises, it’s an application you run in house. You can’t buy hardware in anticipation of your application needs,” one CIO said. About one-third progress along that path, but two-thirds say they now believe self-hosted AI should be based on an “open source” model. What is the “real” AI?
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SAP: Latest news and insights
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 15, 2024
SAP publishes open source manifesto June 27, 2024: SAP has made five commitments — make consistent contributions to the community, champion open standards, strive to adopt an open-first approach, nurture open source ecosystems, and adopt a feedback-driven approach.
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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2023
As transformation is an ongoing process, enterprises look to innovations and cutting-edge technologies to fuel further growth and open more opportunities. Albeit emerging recently, the potential applications of GenAI for businesses are significant and wide-ranging. percent of the working hours in the US economy.
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Top 16 business process management tools
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 16, 2022
Because of this, BPM tools can be conceived of as a nexus that sucks in data from an array of business applications, tracking everything that happens in a given business process — what some have come to describe as “building a digital twin.”. Open-source options are also available for use by companies that have the developers to support them.
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Amazon vets raise cash for Griptape, a Seattle startup that helps companies build AI apps
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
(LinkedIn Photos) A pair of Amazon alum is raising cash for a new startup that helps enterprises build and deploy secure artificial intelligence applications, preventing company data from slipping through the cracks. Founded earlier this year, Griptape is developing an open-source Python framework and cloud platform.
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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2024
To counteract this, and in anticipation of further forays with the technology, some CIOs are exploring a range of technologies and methods to curb the cost of generative AI experimentation and applications. IBM, Oracle, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise also offer GPU-as-a-service.
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Blockchain Business Innovation
Cloud Musings
MAY 17, 2017
If used in this fashion, it can enable transactional applications that can have embedded trust, accountability and transparency attributes. This end-to-end visibility, also known as shared ledgering, can also be linked to business rules and business logic that can drive and enforce trust, openness and integrity across that business network.
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Is Cloud Interoperability a Myth?
Cloud Musings
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Knowing this, the Openstack Interop Challenge looks toward cultivating success by leveraging the open source cloud technology as a common integration layer. Participants include AT&T, Canonical, Cisco, DreamHost, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HPE, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Linaro, Mirantis, OSIC, OVH, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and VMware.
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You’ve Got the Data. Why Can’t Your Developers Build with it?
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 27, 2022
With an open data stack that just works. It is based on open source technologies, allows developers to use the tools of their choice, and converges “data at rest” and “data in motion.”. Open source fosters innovation. So how can we simplify and accelerate the way developers build real-time apps?
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5 ways to deploy your own large language model
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Things are changing week by week. “We
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12 data science certifications that will pay off
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2024
Certification requires a three-step process that includes applying for the certification, completing the experience application form, and attending a board review. The exam tests your knowledge of and ability to integrate machine learning into various tools and applications.
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Summary from the 30 July Analyst Forum
CTOvision
AUGUST 12, 2014
Sponsors of the event are: Leidos , BAE Systems , Carahsoft , Cloudera , Digital Reasoning , Digital Globe , IBM and ICG. The FCC is making an application that will send pings during a crisis, constantly updating individuals while simultaneously sending feedback to responders.Innovation
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For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Even in its infancy, gen AI has become an accepted course of action and application, and the most common use cases include automation of IT processes, security and threat detection, supply chain intelligence, and automating customer service and network processes, according to a report released by IBM in January.
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Wells Fargo prepares to take a quantum leap
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 17, 2022
When IBM started work on its quantum computing research network, Wells Fargo decided to explore the possibilities. “As Today, Wells Fargo is working with the MIT–IBM research group to explore and test-drive mathematical computations using quantum. Financial Services Industry, IBM, Quantum Computing Not engaging is not an option.
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The Future is Being Written in Real-time
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 22, 2022
NoSQL databases are optimized for modern data applications that require large data volume, low latency, and flexible data models. Secondly, customer behaviors and actions need to become visible and available to all applications across an organization. About Chet Kapoor : Chet is Chairman and CEO of DataStax.
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Generative AI is electrifying. Charge ahead or get shocked.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 24, 2023
A large majority of applications will include AI by 2025, and let’s be honest, you can’t put a price on GPT. The generative AI differentiator Up until this point, we’ve seen customers create great products, applications, and experiences using predictive AI. It’s not just a buzzword or part of a science fiction storyline.
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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 20, 2024
Modern data architectures must be designed for security, and they must support data policies and access controls directly on the raw data, not in a web of downstream data stores and applications. Application programming interfaces. The Zachman Framework is an enterprise ontology created by John Zachman at IBM in the 1980s.
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