Published on: 2025-04-20 10:08:14
Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees. On Tuesday, Big Blue shared new rules on where it expects its US sales staff to work: At least three days a week at a client, a flagship office, or a sales hub. And the mainframe giant last week told all US Cloud employees, sales or otherwise, to return to the office at least three days per week at designated "strategic" locations. Several current and former IBM employees who h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 15:55:17
Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 01:55:17
Note: This post is a companion piece to my article The origins of DEL (0x7F) and its Legacy in Amiga ASCII art. That article is all about the character DEL, what it is, how it was used, and why it even has a visual representation, but with a focus on Commodore's Amiga computers. Whereas AmigaOS's Topaz font renders DEL with diagonal lines, IBM's PC renders it... as a house. This bonus article is about that. This article wouldn't have happened without the great help and insights of Michael Walden
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 11:55:55
Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors , this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware.IBM z17 is advertised as being able to process up to 24 trillion operations per second and their new product page and press release is littered with mentions everywhere of AI and security.As IBM talked about last year at Hot Chips, the IBM Telum II processors are eight cores
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A short list of the most transformative products of the past century and a half would include the lightbulb, Ford’s Model T—and the IBM System/360. This mainframe series forever changed the computer industry and revolutionized how businesses and governments worked, enhancing productivity and making countless new tasks possible. In the years leading up to its 7 April 1964 launch, however, the 360 was one of the scariest dramas in American business. It took a nearly fanatical commitment at all le
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IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest version of its mainframe computer hardware. This fully encrypted mainframe is powered by an IBM Telum II processor and is designed for more than 250 AI use cases, the company says, including AI agents and generative AI. Mainframes might seem like old hat, but they’re used by 71% of Fortune 500 compan
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IBM on Monday said it has acquired Hakkoda, a data and AI consultancy based in New York. The acquisition would “further expand” IBM’s ability to bring consultants and AI to clients, particularly customers in industries like financial services, public sector, and healthcare and life sciences, said Mohamad Ali, SVP and head of IBM’s consulting business, in a statement. “With Hakkoda’s data expertise, deep technology partnerships, and asset-centric delivery model, IBM will be even better-position
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IBM introduces the TrackPoint II Keyboard (Black) (Model M13) under the OPTIONS by IBM brand. Whilst it is only a visual (raven black) variant of the existing IBM-branded M13, it will still become one of IBM's most iconic specific Model M variants. IBM introduces the ThinkPad 701C and 701Cs notebook computers, IBM's novel solution to reducing a laptop's overall footprint in an era of typical only small displays available. Its integrated IBM TrackWrite Keyboard (also known as the "butterfly keyb
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Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: 2000 pounds Which of the following chipmakers never made x86 CPUs? Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton (approximately 2,200 pounds) and was used in the IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to feature a moving-head hard disk. The drive occupied 16 square feet and utilized fifty 24-inch platters, which were read by two independently moving arms with an average access time
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 16:14:47
In its latest addition to its Granite family of large language models (LLMs), IBM has unveiled Granite 3.2. This new release focuses on delivering small, efficient, practical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for businesses. IBM has continued to update its Granite LLMs line at a rapid rate. Its last release, Granite 3.1, appeared at the end of 2024. That version was essentially an update. This new model, however, adds experimental chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities to its bag of
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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp , whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. Together the companies' capabilities will help clients accelerate innovation, strengthen security, and get more value from the cloud. Today nearly 75% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud1, including public clouds from hyperscalers and on-prem data centers, w
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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp , whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. Together the companies' capabilities will help clients accelerate innovation, strengthen security, and get more value from the cloud. Today nearly 75% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud1, including public clouds from hyperscalers and on-prem data centers, w
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IBM has finalized its multi-billion dollar HashiCorp acquisition, two days after the U.K.’s antitrust regulator gave the deal its blessing. A spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had quietly greenlighted the acquisition earlier this week prior to the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Tuesday. Today’s announcement comes 10 months after IBM first revealed plans to pay $6.4 billion for HashiCorp, an enterprise software company best know
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 20:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In the wake of the disruptive debut of DeepSeek-R1, reasoning models have been all the rage so far in 2025. IBM is now joining the party, with the debut today of its Granite 3.2 large language model (LLM) family. Unlike other reasoning approaches such as DeepSeek-R1 or OpenAI’s o3, IBM is deeply embedding reasoning into its core open-source Granite models. It’s an appr
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The U.K.’s antitrust authority has given the go-ahead to IBM’s planned multibillion acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp. In a brief case update published today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had “cleared the anticipated acquisition by IBM of HashiCorp,” and it would publish the full rationale for its decision in due course. The announcement comes some 10 months after IBM first revealed it was doling out $6.4 billion for HashiCorp as it sought deeper i
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