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Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public ...Full Article
Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent ...Full Article
IBM Embraces Nvidia GPUs for Acceleration
IBM wants its Power Systems platforms to continue to thrive in the datacenter, and it knows it has to do everything it can to give the Power family of ...Full Article
Amazon SVP Says Outlook for Enterprise Datacenters Is Cloudy
Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, ...Full Article
IBM Transitions SmartCloud Users to SoftLayer
Last week, IBM notified customers of its SmartCloud Enterprise infrastructure cloud that on January 31, 2014, their accounts would no longer be available and that customers would have to ...Full Article
IBM Says Uncle to AWS on $600 Million CIA Cloud
After nine months of disputing that Amazon Web Services should not have been awarded a massive contract to build a private cloud for the US government's Central Intelligence Agency, ...Full Article
Servergy Pits Power-Linux Servers Against ARM, X86
Not everyone thinks that ARM processors will be the only viable alternative to X86 processors in the datacenter when it comes to energy-efficient computing. Servergy, which just uncloaked from ...Full Article
MD Anderson Teams up with Watson for “Moon Shots”
Today, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM have announced that Watson’s cognitive computing system will come to the facility to help put an end to ...Full Article
IBM Takes the Guesswork out of Holiday Shopping
Shopping season may be stressful for shoppers hoping to beat the crowds and find the lowest price, but retailers are far from immune from the stresses of the holidays. ...Full Article
Watson Comes to Cleveland Clinic Patient Rooms
When IBM’s Watson made his debut on Jeopardy!, the supercomputer’s makers were quick to point out that while its knowledge of trivia may be impressive, the real impact will ...Full Article
