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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.

Nasuni acquires Storage Made Easy

File data services leader makes second acquisition in 60 days, follows significant investment.

Syniti promotes Javeed Nizami

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Helping IaaS providers build reliable, fast clouds

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Wipro releases the ‘State of IT Infrastructure 2020’ report

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Zero Circle and Wasabi Technologies partner

Invoice-based carbon footprint and carbon offset programmes empower businesses of all sizes to...

Top-ranked financial fund administrator HedgeServ deploys all-flash platform

Integrated with its OpenStack and VMware environments, SolidFire’s all-flash platform...

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