Tag: IBM

  • IBM Offers Up $5M Watson Solutions Prize

    IBM Offers Up $5M Watson Solutions Prize

    Michael Vizard

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    At the TED2016 conference this week, IBM and XPRIZE, a non-profit organization that designs and manages public competitions to create innovative IT solutions, announced that they will jointly award a $5 million prize to the team that best shows how humans can collaborate with cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as IBM Watson. With the… Read more

  • How IBM Aims to Simplify Partnering

    How IBM Aims to Simplify Partnering

    Michael Vizard

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    ORLANDO, Fla.—While IBM is moving to make it simpler for partners not only to sell a broader range of complementary products, the tech giant is developing a series of services that can only be resold by partners. At the IBM PartnerWorld 2016 conference here this week, the company announced that beginning in January 2017 it… Read more

  • IBM Bets Big on Cloud for the Public Sector

    IBM Bets Big on Cloud for the Public Sector

    Gina Roos

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    IBM is making a bigger push into the public sector with its latest cloud partnerships. The company announced five new major cloud partners that serve the U.S. federal government and a First Responder Application Challenge to develop predictive analytic and mobile solutions to help first responders. Part of the reason for IBM’s big push is… Read more

  • Why Dell’s EMC Buyout Plans Spell Channel Turmoil

    Why Dell’s EMC Buyout Plans Spell Channel Turmoil

    Michael Vizard

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    Although neither company sells 100 percent of its products and services through the channel, there is almost no solution provider that will not be affected, to one degree or another, by the $67 billion merger of Dell and EMC that is expected to close in mid-2016. While the CEOs of both companies touted the complementary… Read more

  • IBM and Cisco Focusing on Converged Tech for MSPs

    IBM and Cisco Focusing on Converged Tech for MSPs

    Gina Roos

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    IBM recently teamed up with Cisco to launch VersaStack, a pre-engineered, tested and supported system that leverages Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Integrated Infrastructure with IBM’s Storwize storage system technology and storage arrays. Designed to operate as a “data center in a box,” the technology is being embraced by managed service providers (MSPs), including iVirtualize in… Read more

  • AirVM Unveils New Cloud Management Platform

    AirVM Unveils New Cloud Management Platform

    Gina Roos

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    AirVM Intros New Cloud Management Platform Cloud management platform company AirVM unveiled AirSembly 2.0, a turnkey cloud management platform designed to enable cloud service providers to customize and integrate to speed delivery of VMware-based cloud services. Aimed at VMware vCloud Air Network Managed Service Providers (MSPs), AirSembly 2.0 features a new user interface (UI) and… Read more