Honeywell claims to be building most powerful quantum computer ever
Honeywell is working on a new quantum computing system that should be the fastest in the world. The company promises that its quantum computer, unveiled this morning, will double the performance of the most powerful quantum system in existence today.
Honeywell is currently a supplier of industri... Read more
Google Cloud announces support for IBM Power Systems
Businesses that use an outdated structure, and are therefore less inclined to switch to working in the cloud, are met halfway by Google. As of today, the use of IBM Power Systems will also be supported.
An advantage of this is that companies do not have to move their entire structure, but could ... Read more
IBM makes SysFlow open-source in fight against cloud threats
IBM's research department has announced that SysFlow, a toolkit for combating vulnerabilities in cloud environments, is now available as an open source kit.
SysFlow should simplify searching through data in order to find out where something is happening, which is quite a challenge for security t... Read more
IBM launches Advertising Accelerator for AI-optimised advertising
IBM is introducing a solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to increase conversion and customer engagement in advertising campaigns. IBM Watson will be used for Advertising Accelerator, a solution that should save analytics teams a lot of time.
Watson automatically creates campaigns for... Read more
MIT and IBM develop AI that recommends documents per topic
In an effort to provide faster and better performance than most methods to date, a combined team from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and the MIT Geometric Data Processing Group came up with a technique that combines a number of popular AI tools.
The researchers say their approach can scan millions of... Read more
New IBM battery uses seawater as a source of minerals
IBM reports that it has a new battery design that does not require cobalt, but extracts the necessary minerals from seawater. The first fully functional battery prototype should be presented within about a year.
There's quite a race going on, according to Reuters, as to who will be the first to ... Read more
IBM deploys new AiMOS supercomputer for AI
IBM has installed its latest supercomputer AiMOS at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. AiMOS should help develop new artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The supercomputer has a speed of 8 petaflops and can therefore perform eight quadrillion calculations per second, says Silicon... Read more
IBM launches threat detection as containerised software
IBM has expanded its containerized software portfolio with a threat detection tool, named Cloud Pak for Security. The tool is designed to increase the productivity of network security teams by simplifying threat searches.
Cloud Pak for Security helps teams to detect threats in their company's in... Read more
IBM launches open source tools for Kubernetes developers
During Kubecon + CloudNativeCon, IBM made a number of announcements in the field of tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem. Big Blue announced two new tools and updated two existing projects. All tools are open source.
The two new tools are called Kui and Iter8, according to Jason McGee, IBM Fellow ... Read more
‘Predictability of AWS network performance relatively low’
The network performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is less predictable than Microsoft's and Google's, even though the company is the leading public cloud platform. This is demonstrated by ThousandEyes' second Cloud Performance Benchmark.
ThousandEyes researched the network performance of clou... Read more