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Biggish Blue is getting smaller
Published in News
Thursday, 19 September 2024 10:26

Biggish Blue is getting smaller


More staff lay offs

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that the once colossal IBM is laying off more staff.

IBM gets Gaudi 3 Enterprise AI to the Cloud
Published in AI


IBM is the Secret Sauce for Gaudi 3

In a surprise development, Intel announced that IBM plans to deploy Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators as a service in the IBM cloud to help enterprises scale AI. IBM is a huge business-oriented company; such a partnership goes a long way.

IBM outsources Granite code
Published in News
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 10:51

IBM outsources Granite code


AI tech goodness is given to Apache 2.0

Big Blue has been a busy bee, getting its Granite code out in the open by using stuff already out there for everyone to see, like GitHub Code Clean and other public code.

IBM ask for voluntary redundancies
Published in News
Monday, 04 March 2024 11:48

IBM ask for voluntary redundancies


While sharpening its axe

Big Blue wants to become smaller and asks workers who want to quit with a pay-off to put their hands up as it starts a new round of global sackings.

IBM remote workers told to find an office or leave
Published in News


Our managers are lonely

IBM suits has given a harsh warning to those managers still working from home: move near an office or find another job.

Cloudy with a chance of rip-off
Published in Cloud
Monday, 29 January 2024 11:42

Cloudy with a chance of rip-off


Ex-geek warns cloud could go the same way as mainframes

A former software engineer has warned that cloud setups could end up the same way as the old mainframes,

Boffins break logical qubit record
Published in PC Hardware
Thursday, 07 December 2023 10:19

Boffins break logical qubit record


More cats make fewer errors

A team of boffins has built a quantum computer with the largest number of logical qubits (quantum bits).

Musk pins hopes on SMEs
Published in News
Tuesday, 05 December 2023 11:45

Musk pins hopes on SMEs


Please give me all your money

After losing key advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney with his superior management skills, Elon [look at me] Musk is trying to interest small to medium-sized businesses to advertise in his social notworking business X.

Nearly half the world will need to retrain
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Thanks to AI, old trains will be redundent 

The IBM Institute for Business Value claims that 40 per cent of the world’s workers will need to be retrained within the next three years to cope with the changes of AI to their workloads.

IBM close to writing a $5 billion cheque for Apptio
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Cloud shift continues

Big Blue is about to get bigger after buying software Apptio for $5 billion from Vista Equity Partners Management.