Last week, IBM announced the release of its “Security Role and Policy Modeler” to augment its IBM Security Identity Manager suite, the company’s flagship software product for policy-driven IT security governance and access management. The new addition is modeling analytics using sophisticated identity-management algorithms to ease the often tedious job of IT managers and security [...]
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IBM’s Watson starts work at Cedars-Sinai’s cancer center
Very soon, oncologists at the Cedars-Sinai’s cancer center could get expert advice from the IBM Watson supercomputer in seconds. IBM is working with WellPoint, the largest health plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield on a software solution running on the Watson platform that will evaluate in real time cancer treatment options based on historical cancer [...]
IBM to allow employees to bring their own Smartphone or Tablet
IBM opens its doors to the growing trend of “bring your own device” (BYOD) for all of its employees globally. By the end of the year, IBM will allow its current 100,000 workers to bring their own mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) to work and use them to accomplish work related tasks. IBM’s Bill Bodin, [...]
IBM buys Q1 Labs
IBM is announcing that the company has acquired Q1 Labs, a network security intelligence software provider based in Waltham, Massachusetts. This new venture will join IBM’s new security systems division to be headed by Q1 Labs CEO Brendan Hannigan. The company has not disclosed the amount of the deal. This new security division will create [...]
100 Times Write Performance Computer NAND Memory breakthrough from IBM
Computer memory technology gets a breakthrough that can usher solid state chips to be developed to store the same volumes as NAND flash technology but enjoying 100 times write performance and significantly longer lifespans. This was announced by computer giant IBM this Thursday. Today, NAND flash technology in memory products like your compact flash drives [...]
IBM Experiments with Tivoli Offerings
IBM had just announced on December 8, 2009 that its Tivoli Monitoring software will be offered as a hosted version. This version is recommended to companies that prefer paying subscription fees over getting licensed for the software. It is good to have version options as the software is vital in running a midsized company or [...]
IBM Rises to the Clouds
IBM recently launched a new software that could be used in the office environment. The Tivoli Monitoring is offered for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This is after previous moves by IBM to make deals with Amazon’s EC2 through lobbing a good portion of its middleware and its database software. Just recently, Amazon [...]
Malicious Code Gumblar Attacks Again
Just recently, thousands of sites were hacked by Gumblar, a malicious code that infects computers through legit but unsecured websites. Although a majority of these hacked websites are small-time sites from foreign countries, Gumblar does a clever trick into pushing traffic into the infected domains to launch the attack. How Gumblar works According to researchers, [...]
IBM Makes a Breakthrough in 3D Imaging
IBM scientists over in Zurich, Switzerland have made a great breakthrough in photography, 3D imaging, technology, quantum physics, and just about any and all industries and fields out there. IBM has been able to take the world’s first 3D image of atomic bonds. At first thought, it’s hard to realize just how huge of a [...]