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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

Governments such as that of India are pushing for the adoption and use of open source software capable of cutting licensing costs from giant companies such as Oracle, IBM and Cisco. IBM@OSCON 2015: Let's work together (womenstoolbox.com). IBM And NVIDIA Launch OpenPOWER Research Centre In France (techweekeurope.co.uk).

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Robert Scoble has just had lunch with Randal and executive producer John Wolpert (who when he was with IBM was mentioned to me with great reverence by his colleagues).

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Smart Manufacturing Is Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

A Digital Twin is a virtual representation of a manufacturer’s product used in product design, simulation, monitoring, optimization and servicing. This post was brought to you by IBM Global Technology Services. If you’re company isn’t deeply leveraging all of these concepts today, you don’t know anything about manufacturing.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. As well, the more data you have, the more physical or virtual compute resources you may need.

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IBM on the state of network security: Abysmal

Network World

At least if you look at the results from the IBM Security’s 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index released today which contains myriad depressing nuggets such as: The number of records compromised grew a historic 566% in 2016 from 600 million to more than 4 billion -- more than the combined total from the two previous years.

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

IBM blog figure 1. IBM Benchmarking Report for KPIs looks as functional and business KPIs, and not churn KPIs. Figure 2 below shows call drop rate by circle, and subscriber growth rate by circle in India, which is based on data taken from year 2011 by an IBM team. IBM blog figure 2. According to IBM IP titled.

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If it is always “Day 1” at Amazon, it is Day 10 in Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Try getting a driver’s license or not paying your taxes. Private companies now embrace machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to power chatbots, text messaging, frequently-asked-questions and help desks. IBM is harnessing its artificial intelligence engine Watson to revolutionize law firms , healthcare and help desks.