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IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

By Tom Raftery on February 2, 2016

IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, Internet of Things, IoT, Watson, watson IoT cloud

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

By Tom Raftery on May 29, 2015

Personalised medicine is where a patient’s DNA is sequenced, as is the DNA of their tumour (in the case of cancer), and an individualised treatment, specific to the genotype of their cancer is designed and applied.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cognitive Computing, HANA, Health, medical research insights, molecular health, personalised medicine, personalized medicine, precision medicine, sap, sapphirenow, Watson

Disrupting Today's Workplace - Part Three

Disrupting Today’s Workplace – Part Three

By Michael Fauscette on July 14, 2014

Technology is one part of the impetus for change in the workplace and has historically been a lever in major transitions like the one we’re currently experiencing. There are new technologies like mobile, cloud and social that are a big part of this change of course, but there are some other specific technologies that are […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Computing, decision support, disruptwork, FoW, future of work, Jeopardy, Watson, work

Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry

Technology is completely revolutionising the healthcare industry

By Tom Raftery on May 29, 2014

Healthcare is changing. Recent advances in technology are completely revolutionising how we approach the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness. And this is just the beginning of what will be a technological revolution in healthcare. Smartphone use is growing at an enormous pace. They now account for 87% of the total mobile handsets in the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, ehealth, HANA, Health, Healthcare, ibm, iWatch, Medicine, sap, Watson, wellpoint | 2 Responses

Enterprise Un-Credibility

Enterprise Un-Credibility

By Vinnie Mirchandani on January 9, 2014

I am reading news from CES this week including that from a “personal cloud” company, Lyve Minds, a Seagate Technology startup. It made me ponder how believable the offering would be if an enterprise software company had announced it. 3 years after much fanfare and publicity from the Jeopardy! outing, the Wall Street Journal estimates […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Hype, ibm, sap, vaporware, Watson, workday | 3 Responses

Your Glass Watson

Your Glass Watson

By Denis Pombriant on May 30, 2013

I was discussing Watson, the IBM super silicon brain that won Jeopardy! the other day with a reporter writing an article.  Around the same time, I was also looking into Google Glass, the wearable computer that enables people to record what they see and to see what they’re recording through a teeny tiny screen mounted […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged google, Google Glass, Groucho Marx, ibm, IBM Watson, Watson, wearable computer

Presentation on Big Data Analytics and Watson at IBM’s Information on Demand Conference

Presentation on Big Data Analytics and Watson at IBM’s Information on Demand Conference

By Evangelos Simoudis on November 3, 2011

Last week, I spoke at IBM’s Information on Demand conference about big data and Watson.  I also moderated a panel discussion on the initial applications being developed using the technology developed for Watson.  Below is the annotated and properly hyperlinked text of my presentation. Data is emerging as an extremely valuable asset; some even characterize […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged BigData, Data analysis, google, ibm, unstructured data, Watson | 1 Response

IBM and Indiana Jones

IBM and Indiana Jones

By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 30, 2011

Since Apple introduced the Siri personal assistant with the new iPhone 4S I have read several blogs how much better it is compared to Google Voice Search or to GPS and other voice recognition products. How about compared to IBM Watson? IBM has ma…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Google Voice Search, ibm, iPhone, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Watson

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

By Merv Adrian on July 20, 2011

The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Big Data, BigInsights, Brisk, Cassandra, Cloudera, DataRush, Datastax, Eigenbase, EMC, Facebook, Flume, Hadapt, hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, ibm, InfoSphere, Isilon, Karmasphere, Linux, MapR, mapreduce, microsoft, Mondrian, NetApp, NFS, Oozie, Open source, oracle, OSS, pervasive, Pig, Platform Computing, SQLStream, Sqoop, Watson, Yahoo, zookeeper | 1 Response

Watson on Jeopardy! Big Data Analytics and User Experience

Watson on Jeopardy! Big Data Analytics and User Experience

By Evangelos Simoudis on February 22, 2011

Last week five other VCs and I were invited by IBM’s Venture Capital Group to a private viewing of Jeopardy’s final round where Watson was competing.  Following the show, and Watson’s win, we engaged in a very interesting conversation with Eric Brown, Watson’s technical lead, and Anant Jhingran, CTO of IBM’s Information Management Division, about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, ibm, Jeopardy, Watson | 1 Response

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