IBM announces a new Ipad app for Cognos today called Cognos Mobile. Check out their press release.
Oct 11
IBM has been making a lot of data related acquisitions recently and today they added another company to their collection, Platform Computing. Platform Computing is a software company that makes tools to manage large computing clusters. They’ve also got some Hadoop/mapreduce related offerings which may be IBM’s interest area.
Sep 03
IBM Research has developed a hardware and software solution to join 200,000 hard disks together into a single 120 petabyte storage cluster. Here’s an article from ExtremeTech and here’s one from O’Reilly Radar with more details. As of last year, Facebook had the worlds largest Hadoop cluster at 21 petabytes. This IBM cluster is for a customer, likely a government agency.
Sep 02
IBM has made a couple acquisitions recently. First, they acquired i2, a provider of analytics software for crime and fraud prevention. Here’s the Techcrunch article. Then they acquired Algorithmics, a risk management analytics company. Here’s the Techcrunch article for that one.
Mar 18
After IBM’s Watson won its recent Jeopardy challenge, a lot of discussion has been about what the powerful computer system will be used for next. Check out an interview.
Mar 16
IBM and Revolution Analytics have integrated R with Netezza. Check out the GigaOm recap.
Feb 20
The Jeopardy match between IBM’s Watson computer and Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter is over, and Watson has won. Here are a few videos to recap the feat.
And here’s a Fast Company article and some stuff from the Linux Foundation.
Sep 20
IBM has just announce they intend to purchase Netezza. Check out the press release.
And check out DBMS2 and Techcrunch for some comments.
Nov 18
IBM has acquired SPSS and more recently acquired business analytics firm Red Pill. Now they are announcing an internal analytics product called Blue Insight, the largest private cloud computing business analytics environment in the world. Check out the Techcrunch article.
