Guard your virtual environment with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

The server virtualization market is expected to grow to approximately 8 billion dollars by 2023. This would mean a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7 percent between 2017 and 2023. Protection of these virtual environments is therefore a significant and critical component of an organization’s data protection...

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Exploring AI Fairness for People with Disabilities

This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities emphasizes participation and leadership. In today’s fast-paced world, more and more decisions affecting participation and opportunities for leadership are automated. This includes selecting candidates for a job interview, approving loan applicants, or admitting students into college. There is a trend...

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AI, machine learning and deep learning: What’s the difference?

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It’s not unusual today to see people talking about artificial intelligence (AI). It’s in the media, popular culture, advertising and more. When I was a kid in the 1980s, AI was depicted in Hollywood movies, but its real-world use was unimaginable given the state of technology at that...

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Three ways to intelligently scale your IT systems

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Digital transformation, with its new paradigms, presents new challenges to your IT infrastructure. To stay ahead of competitors, your organization must launch innovations and release upgrades in cycles measured in weeks if not days, while boldly embracing efficiency practices such as DevOps. Success in this environment requires an...

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Your onramp to IBM PowerAI

As offering managers on IBM’s PowerAI team, my colleagues and I assist worldwide clients, Business Partners, sellers and systems integrators daily to accelerate their journey to adopt machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and other AI applications, specifically based on IBM PowerAI and PowerAI Vision. Thanks to our...

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A future of powerful clouds

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In a very good way, the future is filled with clouds. In the realm of information technology, this statement is especially true. Already, the majority of organizations worldwide are taking advantage of more than one cloud provider. IBM calls this a “hybrid multicloud” environment – “hybrid” meaning both...

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AI today: Data, training and inferencing

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I discussed artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning and some of the terms used when discussing them. Today, I’ll focus on how data, training and inferencing are key aspects to those solutions. The large amounts of data available to organizations today have made possible many AI capabilities...

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Making the move to value-based health

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A few years ago, the IBV Institute for Business Value published a report which predicted the convergence of population health management and precision medicine into a new healthcare model we called Precision Health and Wellness. We believed a key component of that model would be a continued transition...

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Accelerating data for NVIDIA GPUs

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These days, most AI and big data workloads need more compute power and memory than one node can provide. As both the number of computing nodes and the horsepower of processors and GPUs increases, so does the demand for I/O bandwidth. What was once a computing challenge can...

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My Strategy to Prepare for IBM Cognos Controller Developer (C2020-605) Certification Exam

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About IBM Cognos Controller Developer Certification IBM Cognos Controller is given with an integration component, Financial Analytics Publisher, that automates the process of obtaining data in near real-time from IBM Cognos Controller into IBM Cognos TM1. After the data is a source in IBM Cognos TM1, it can...

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The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – Lift Up Your Career

Data architects are generally senior-level professionals and are highly admired in huge companies. A data architect is an individual who is responsible for designing, creating, expanding, and leading an organization's data architecture. Data architects describe how the data will be collected, utilized, integrated, and managed by various data...

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Automate disaster recovery using IBM VM Recovery Manager

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Business continuity is a top priority for every enterprise. And, at the foundation, it’s all about having a solid plan in place to deal with disruptions and potential threats. If you’re an IT planner, you know that data protection and disaster recovery (DR) — the aspects of business...

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