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Machine Learning Fuels U.S. Patent Surge
Technology innovators intensified efforts over the last year to secure intellectual property rights on transformative technologies ranging from AI to blockchain platforms. While IBM maintained its overwhelming lead in ...Full Article
Back to the Future – The Mainframe in a Connected World
Since the mid 90’s, industry watchers have predicted a slow, gradual death for the mainframe, as x86-based server farms and the cloud gained a stronger foothold in the high-performance ...Full Article
Tech Giants Adopt ‘Balanced’ Licensing Approach
Some of the largest stakeholders in the booming open-source software community have issued new licensing guidelines for developers designed to thwart aggressive or unfounded enforcement of intellectual property claims ...Full Article
IBM Demonstrates In-memory Computing with 1M PCM Devices
Last week IBM reported successfully using one million phase change memory (PCM) devices to implement and demonstrate an unsupervised learning algorithm running in memory. It’s another interesting and potentially ...Full Article
AWS Dominates Soaring Cloud Market
Despite intense competition in the booming cloud market, Amazon Web Services remains the overwhelming infrastructure-as-a-service leader by a wide margin, a cloud marker tracker concludes. AWS is "in a ...Full Article
Google, IBM Partner to Tighten Container Security
Among the ways proposed to secure application containers and micro-services as they proliferate in datacenters is more rigorous oversight of the software supply chain. With those security considerations in ...Full Article
Red Hat, Microsoft Extend Alliance to SQL Server
Red Hat continues to expand its ties with major cloud providers with the addition of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server on its flagship Linux platform. Separately, the ...Full Article
Google Joins Rush to Nvidia Cloud GPUs
Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.” The search giant announced Thursday (Sept. 21) the beta launch ...Full Article
IBM Goes ‘Retro’ For Cloud Data Migration
The rise of streaming analytics, and with it ever-greater volumes of big data in motion, is prompting new ways to "transport" data that is increasing ending up in the ...Full Article
IBM’s Latest AI Effort Targets Algorithms, Physics
Investment continues to flow into artificial intelligence research, especially in key areas such as AI algorithms that promise to move the technology from specialized tasks to broader applications that ...Full Article