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February 23, 2017

IBM Launches Commercial Blockchain Tech for Private Equity Firms

Tech Optimization
Financial services lie at the heart of use cases for blockchain, and IBM is now addressing one subset of that industry—private equity firms—with a new, specialized commercial dep...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insights News
February 22, 2017

MIT Researchers Create Super-Efficient Power Converter for IoT

Tech Optimization
The widely held belief that billions upon billions of interconnected devices will make up the Internet of Things within just a handful of years rests partly on a parallel assum...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insights News
February 16, 2017

IBM Spells Out Detailed Vision for Watson IoT

Tech Optimization
IBM made headlines in 2015 when it committed to spend $3 billion on its IoT (Internet of Things) strategy over the next several years, and this week reached a milestone in that...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insights News
February 15, 2017

Nokia Creates Global Network Grid for IoT

Tech Optimization
Nokia is betting it can be a player in IoT by offering enterprises a single place to acquire a global IoT networking footprint. Here are the key details from its announcement a...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Insights News
February 15, 2017

Google's Mega-Scale Database, Cloud Spanner, Is Now in Beta

Tech Optimization
Google has made a long-anticipated move with the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, its globally distributed relational database that has powered many of its mega-scale consumer ser...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insights News
February 13, 2017

Salesforce Rolls Out Einstein AI for Service Cloud

Future of Work
Salesforce's Einstein AI technology has surfaced in its Service Cloud product suite as the company moves to embed AI in all of its applications. Here are the key details from S...
Chris Kanaracus
Insights News
February 8, 2017

Microsoft Offers Patent Troll Protection for Azure Customers

Tech Optimization
Competition in the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) markets is getting fiercer all the time, but now Microsoft has come up with an additional...
Chris Kanaracus
Insights News
February 7, 2017

Microsoft Makes Big Price Cuts for Azure VMs and Storage

Tech Optimization
Microsoft has made significant pricing cuts for Azure virtual machines and blob storage, in a move that suggests 2017 will see competition heat back up among cloud providers on t...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insights News
February 6, 2017

Siemens Poised to Name Former SAP co-CEO Snabe Chairman

Tech Optimization
Siemens' longtime chairman is stepping down at the end of this year, and the massive German industrial conglomerate has made a telling choice in the man who will replace him: For...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller