Product Reviews Net » ibm http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sat, 26 May 2012 11:39:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Jeopardy IBM: Human vs. Machine Results http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/01/14/jeopardy-ibm-human-vs-machine-results/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jeopardy-ibm-human-vs-machine-results http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/01/14/jeopardy-ibm-human-vs-machine-results/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:51:29 +0000 Peter Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=118893 Most American’s at some time or another have seen an episode or two of the game show Jeopardy, but I bet you have not seen many that featured a Human vs. Machine? Well this is just what IBM set up to show just how powerful and clever its DeepQA supercomputer was. The results did not go the way of the human, which viewers will be able to see in February 2011.

Yesterday was just a demonstration round, so viewers will hope to see the IBM computer beat “Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter”. According to eWeek the name of the project is called Watson and has been four years in the making.

We can watch the episode of Jeopardy and see the fun side of it, but there are more serious aspects going on behind the scenes. Having a Supercomputer that is able to understand how we speak and all the slang that goes with it can become very useful in not only the healthcare field, but also business and tech support as well.

Jesse Nunes from Boston.com explains that the Watson Supercomputer consist of 10 racks of IBM servers and includes 15 terabytes of RAM. Do not think that the computer has it easy, as there is no connection to the Internet, so it has to rely on the encyclopedias and other documents stored in its hard drive. It is said that Watson has access to more than 200 million pages of content – more than your average collection then?

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/01/14/jeopardy-ibm-human-vs-machine-results/feed/ 0 IBM To Buy BigFix http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/07/01/ibm-to-buy-bigfix/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-to-buy-bigfix http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/07/01/ibm-to-buy-bigfix/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:33:03 +0000 Gary Johnson http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=103507 IBM announced to the world today that they plan to takeover system management software vendor BigFix. The takeover is expected to be completed by the third quarter, and the terms of the deal have not been revealed so far.

Chris Kanaracus from PCWorld.com is reporting that BigFix has a range of modules that covers areas such as power and patch management, and security configurations. This will bring IBM closer to its rivals in data center automation like BMC, CA Technologies and Hewlett-Packard.

At the moment privately owned BigFix has more than 700 customers and employs around two hundred people. The takeover will see the company absorbed into the IBM’s Software Group. IBM’s Tivoli IT management line is already quite a size but this acquisition could be quite fruitful according to one observer.

Redmonk analyst Michael Coté said “Nowadays, IBM can have surprising holes in its portfolio when it comes to desktop management and automation,”. “While there’s plenty of monitoring, asset management, and so on, Tivoli can always use more of this type of thing, rather than partnering to get it.”

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/07/01/ibm-to-buy-bigfix/feed/ 0 IBM Layoffs 2010: Cutbacks Expected “Any day now” http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/03/02/ibm-layoffs-2010-cutbacks-expected-any-day-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-layoffs-2010-cutbacks-expected-any-day-now http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/03/02/ibm-layoffs-2010-cutbacks-expected-any-day-now/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:36:23 +0000 Jamie Pert http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=94545 If you are an IBM employee you may not like this article, as according to HuffingtonPost IBM will soon laying off a lot of employees.

From what we can see these job cuts are being dubbed as “resource action”, apparently the most affected office will be Raleigh which is located in North Carolina.

From what we can see there are currently 10,000 employees in Raleigh, details are not known however this office could face a potential lay off of 40-50%.

One IBM employee of 32 years was extremely shocked to hear the news, apparently his Toronto work unit could face layoffs of around 5%.

As we find out more in this we will keep you posted, for more details check out HuffingtonPost.

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