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IBM brings Watson to Africa

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IBM has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa in a bid to fuel development and spur business opportunities across the world’s fastest growing continent. Dubbed “Project Lucy” after the earliest known human ancestor, IBM will invest US$100 million in the initiative, giving scientists and partners access to the world’s most advanced cognitive computing technologies.

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Encouraging developers to break into the multi-million euro cloud market.

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New 4,500 m2 data centre in Madrid offers services from the ground to the cloud and across the continent via Europe’s largest fibre optic network.

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IBM has announced a new data virtualization service for its portfolio of cloud-based enterprise offerings.

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British Airways increases scalability, reliability, flexibility and performance while building on its IT infrastructure using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Processing and preserving scientific research data

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SSDs sent into space

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Avnet helps to bring EMC VSPEX BLUE to market

Avnet’s channel partners worldwide can now offer hyper-converged solutions that are sized for...

An open pathway to digital transformation for CorpFlex

CorpFlex dramatically reduces infrastructure costs, improves performance and transforms process...

The Quest to address data resiliency, backup and deployment challenges

Investments in core solution areas across Quest’s new Information Systems Management business...

Backup-only recovery solutions are failing organisations

Zerto recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey,...

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