Watson offers cloud-based big data analytics

IBM has unveiled three new Watson services delivered via the cloud. The first, Watson Discovery Advisor, is designed to accelerate and strengthen research and development projects in industries such as pharmaceutical, publishing and biotechnology. The second, Watson...

Nedbank taps IBM to analyse social media

Nedbank is using IBM’s predictive analysis solutions to improve the customer experience and provide more responsive realtime services. As a result of this technology implementation, the bank has reduced social media monitoring costs by over R1-million rand a year...

Nedbank taps into IBM Analytics

IBM has announced that Nedbank, a leading financial services provider throughout southern Africa, is using IBM’s predictive analytics solutions to improve the customer experience and provide more responsive realtime services. As a result of this technology...
IBM unlocks big data in the cloud

IBM unlocks big data in the cloud

IBM inventors have patented a technique for combining big data from distributed cloud services with data stored on local IT systems, to gain new insights that can enable businesses to more efficiently and effectively market and serve their customers. The cloud...

IBM beats supercomputer record with Sequoia

Scientists at Swiss university ETH Zurich and IBM Research, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), have set a new record in supercomputing in fluid dynamics using 6,4-million threads on LLNL’s 96...