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.
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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 4312
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 …
IBM to acquire SoftLayer Technologies
IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition …
How 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 …