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Can IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna make the elephant dance again

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Critics of IBM say the American tech icon went the hybrid cloud way because it lost the fight to become a public cloud hyper-scaler to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Hybrid clouds are a combination of privately-owned computer servers and networks and machines and services rented off the internet.

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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

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IBM has announced it is acquiring US-based digital transformation services provider Octo for an undisclosed amount from private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. On Wednesday, the US Department of Defense announced it is awarding a five-year cloud computing contract worth up to $9 billion to IBM, Amazon, Google and Oracle.

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AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium 5-7 May 2015 at Baltimore Convention Center

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There''s also plenty of networking opportunity. Sponsors include a broad range of companies, such as IBM, Cisco, Intel, Leidos, BAE, Solarwinds, Symantec, NES, Informatica, and Teradata. Defense Information Systems Agency’s new operational role in the cyber domain as network defender creates a formal relationship between DISA, U.S.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks names new CFO as pandemic fuels mobile ordering; Panopto adds IBM exec; F5’s new security leader; and more

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Seattle-based video platform Panopto hired former IBM executive Dave Neway as VP of marketing. He was most recently head of marketing for IBM Watson advertising. Haiyan Song joined Seattle-based F5 Networks as EVP of security. She will be based out of F5 Networks’ San Jose, Calif. Dave Neway. Panopto Photo).

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AWS opens up its Amazon Braket platform as ‘launch pad’ for quantum computing

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Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform , Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. Google AI Quantum and the IBM Q Network take advantage of quantum processors that have been developed in-house. IonQ Photo via AWS).

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IonQ opens up Forte quantum computing platform for use on Amazon Braket Direct

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IonQ Forte joins two earlier generations of the company’s processing hardware, Harmony and Aria, as options for Amazon Web Service’s Braket quantum computing service. Certain types of problems, ranging from network optimization to codebreaking , are thought to be more easily solvable using quantum processors.

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Why Multi-Factor Authentication is Key to Modern Cybersecurity

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Multi-factor authentication requires users to provide two or more pieces of evidence in order to gain access to a network, application, or system, and can dramatically decrease the likelihood of infiltration. According to a 2021 IBM report , the average cost of a data breach increased by 10% between 2020 and 2021, rising from $3.86