IBM uses Watson as part of new cloud service

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	IBM uses Watson as part of new cloud service IBM is making its artificially intelligent computer system, Watson, available to researchers as a cloud service. Scientists from universities, pharmaceutical companies and commercial research centers have been using Watson, which was built to understand human language, to analyze and test hypotheses in their data, along with data held in millions of scientific papers available in public databases. Read More   WHITE PAPER: CDW Mobile Policy Checklist Here's what to consider when putting together a mobile policy designed to support a highly productive workforce. Read Now In this Issue Amazon's file sharing service Zocalo now generally available Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Salesforce renames and revamps Communities service Cotap, a WhatsApp for the enterprise, links with cloud storage providers The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella Customers praise Microsoft's 'no BS' explanation of cloud service outage Jive deepens integration with Cisco's WebEx and Jabber VMware calls new "hyper-converged" system a building block for software-defined data centers EMC gives VMware admins the reins to replication and recovery WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more Amazon's file sharing service Zocalo now generally available Enterprises that want to share and store files online have yet another option now that Amazon Web Services has opened its Zocalo service to general availability. Read More   Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver and more Before their corporate jobs, many tech CEOs got their hands dirty, scrubbing oils stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. Here are their stories. Read More   Salesforce renames and revamps Communities service Salesforce.com has renamed and updated its Communities product, which lets companies build social websites where employees, partners and customers can mingle and collaborate. Read More   WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more Cotap, a WhatsApp for the enterprise, links with cloud storage providers Cotap, a startup launched last year that provides a WhatsApp-like messaging service for the workplace, has integrated its product with four leading cloud storage providers and released a desktop app, as it jockeys for position in the enterprise communications market. Read More   The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella Satya Nadella has taken decisive steps since being named Microsoft CEO in February 2014 to solidify his leadership of the company and try to turn it in a new direction. Read More   Customers praise Microsoft's 'no BS' explanation of cloud service outage   A Microsoft executive last week gave what some users called a "refreshingly direct" and "no BS, straight-talking" explanation of a several-hour outage of the cloud-based Visual Studio Online, collecting kudos for acknowledging mistakes and spelling out what happened. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic   State of Cloud Security Report In a relatively short time, cloud computing, specifically Infrastructure-as a-Service, has shifted from a new but unproven approach to an accepted, even inevitable, model. Driven by flexibility and efficiency, the question facing most organizations is which applications and workloads to move to the cloud and when. Learn More Jive deepens integration with Cisco's WebEx and Jabber Jive Software has pushed out updates for the cloud versions of both its enterprise social networking (ESN) suite and its JiveX software for building external online communities. Read More   VMware calls new "hyper-converged" system a building block for software-defined data centers VMware this week unveiled at its VMworld event the first in a family of "hyper-converged" systems, a product called EVO:RAIL that it says will help customers build software-defined data centers. Read More   EMC gives VMware admins the reins to replication and recovery EMC is putting replication and recovery into the hands of VMware administrators with a software version of its RecoverPoint appliance that's designed for cloud computing. Read More
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