by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “IBM today announced new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and hybrid cloud capabilities for the VersaStack™ converged infrastructure solution. VDI can reduce data center costs, streamline troubleshooting, and increase data security for enterprise clients managing hybrid cloud workloads. To address large-scale, high performance VDI workloads and data […]
NVIDIA Tesla Accelerators Demonstrate Advanced Performance for Training Deep Learning Models
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “IBM announced that benchmarks conducted by IBM engineers found that the NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 GPU accelerators on the IBM Cloud can provide up to 2.8 times more performance than the previous generation NVIDIA® Tesla® K80 for certain test cases. A second benchmark conducted by Rescale also found […]
IBM Extends Data Science Collaborative Workspace to the Private Cloud
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “IBM today announced the availability of a collaborative workspace for private clouds geared towards organizations and data scientists working with sensitive data. Using Data Science Experience Local, data scientists are now able to more easily and quickly collaborate on analytic models and deliver insights that developers can […]
IBM Expands Bluemix OpenWhisk to Help Developers Quickly Connect Data to Serverless Apps
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “IBM today announced it has added new capabilities to Bluemix OpenWhisk, one of the leading open serverless computing platforms, to help developers more simply and securely connect event-driven programming into outside data streams. This expansion of OpenWhisk allows developers to expose serverless actions as secure and […]
IBM, NVIDIA, Stone Ridge Technology Set Record in High Performance Computing in Oil & Gas
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “IBM and Stone Ridge Technology today announced a performance milestone in reservoir simulation designed to help improve efficiency and lower the cost of production. Working with NVIDIA, the companies shattered previous published results using one-tenth the power and 1/100th of the space. The news demonstrates the […]
IBM Puts Watson into the Hands of Marketing Professionals
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “IBM today introduced new cognitive capabilities for IBM Watson Marketing Insights, a cloud-based offering that continuously examines customer behavior and learns how it may impact the success of the business. With these insights marketing teams can take action to launch targeted campaigns designed to turn all customers […]
IBM Brings Anaconda Open Data Science Platform to IBM Cognitive Systems
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “IBM announced today that it is working with Continuum Analytics to offer Anaconda, a leading Open Data Science platform, on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI software distribution for machine learning and deep learning that makes it simple and fast to take advantage […]
IBM Study: Cognitive Technology to Impact Key Human Resource Functions
by Angela Guess A recent press release out of IBM reports, “Cognitive technology has far reaching implications in Human Resources – from hiring through onboarding to HR operations, employee engagement and performance. According to an IBM report, HR executives are already recognizing the impact of cognitive and there are several key areas where cognitive capabilities […]
IBM Launches Industry’s Most Secure Enterprise-Ready Blockchain Services on IBM Cloud
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “IBM today announced the new release of IBM Blockchain, the first enterprise-ready blockchain service based on the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0. The service enables developers to quickly build and host security-rich production blockchain networks on the IBM Cloud, and is underpinned by IBM LinuxONE, […]
IBM Breaks Industry Record for Conversational Speech Recognition with Deep Learning
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “IBM today announced that it broke the industry record for speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes spoken words ever closer to human parity. Last year, IBM announced a major improvement in conversational speech recognition: a system that achieved a 6.9 percent word error rate. Since […]