IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition …
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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 4628How to make real-world use of Big Data
What is so new about Big Data, the tech buzzword that is attracting so much attention these days? Ahmed Auda, Business Unit Executive, IBM Middle East Software Group, demystifies this latest technology trend
Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after “a few historic banner years” of spending …
Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down
A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that number-two-ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last …
Dell’s server strategy paying off
The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company’s server business is growing, said IDC in its first …
Computer scientists oppose Oracle’s bid to copyright Java APIs
Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, …
IDC: Server market revenue down 7.7 percent in Q1
Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by …
IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in …
IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot
Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to …
Amazon Web Services will continue to disrupt enterprises, IT vendors
As I recently noted, much of the IT industry detests Amazon Web Services, with VMware in the lead. In my own …