IBM has acquired virtualisation management software firm CSL International, with the aim of improving the cloud computing capabilities of its zEnterprise System mainframes.
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UAE to open region’s first AI summer camp
UAE students will soon be able to attend an artificial intelligence-focused summer camp following Minister of State for Artifical Intelligence Omar bin Sultan Al Olama's announcement that the government is collaborating with number of leading national and international technology and education companies in the private sector to open such programme in the country.0 4628
India to overtake US on number of developers by 2017
The US may be the global centre of the IT universe, but India will exceed the US in the number of software developers by 2017, a new report notes.
Red Hat reveals new VP for global strategic alliances
Red Hat today announced that it has named a new vice president of Global Strategic Alliances. Scott Musson, previously of VMware, will be responsible for Red Hat’s global alliance, system integrator and independent software vendor (ISV) relationships, and will manage Red Hat’s strategic relationships with HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco.
CIOs in privileged position to become the CEO
BT Global Services CEO Luis Alvarez said that CIOs are in a privileged position to become chief executives because of the opportunity that comes from “understanding the technology and understanding the business processes”.
US inventor of DRAM tech honoured with Japan award
A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honoured with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize.
IBM re-moulds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that …
IBM in new round of lay-offs
IBM has cut about 1,300 employees and more lay-offs are possible, according to an employee organisation. The news comes from …
Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud
Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public …
Unstructured data: Can you crack the code?
A simple motive for code cracking has always been the benefits of what lies beneath the complexity. As with the universe-load …
Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy …