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IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership

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 IBM and MIT came together today to sign a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at the prestigious Cambridge, MA academic institution. The lab will be co-chaired by Dario Gil, IBM Research VP of AI and Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Big Blue intends to invest $240 million into the lab where IBM researchers… Read More Continue reading IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership→

Salesforce, IBM deepen partnership with new app integrations

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 Salesforce and IBM are joining forces again as they attempt to deepen the alliance between the two companies. The partnership began last March when they agreed to sell each other’s artificial intelligence products, Watson and Einstein. Today’s announcement is all about data integration. Salesforce will be adding the ability to include IBM weather data in Lightning apps, while IBM… Read More Continue reading Salesforce, IBM deepen partnership with new app integrations→

Apple and Accenture teaming up to help enterprises build advanced mobility tools

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 There is a general misconception that Apple is strictly about consumer tools, but the fact is that the company has a big presence in the enterprise just by the sheer number of iPhones and iPads in the business world. It also has some high-profile… Continue reading Apple and Accenture teaming up to help enterprises build advanced mobility tools→

Pivotal-VMware-Google forge container partnership

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 Pivotal, VMware and Google have teamed up on a containerization project that the companies say should simplify creating, deploying and managing container projects at scale. The companies are taking what is a set of open-source products and provid… Continue reading Pivotal-VMware-Google forge container partnership→

VMware Cloud is now live on AWS — and IT pros just did a little happy dance

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 When VMware announced it was partnering with AWS last fall, it turned more than a few enterprise heads. After all, we’re talking about one company that dominates virtual machines on-prem, and the other in the public cloud. Together, the two companies make a powerful combination — and VMware made the whole shebang official today at VMworld when it announced that VMware Cloud was live… Read More Continue reading VMware Cloud is now live on AWS — and IT pros just did a little happy dance→

Box deepens partnership with Microsoft and turns its attention to AI and machine learning

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 When I spoke to Box CEO Aaron Levie last year at the Boxworks customer conference, I had to ask the obligatory machine learning question. Surely Box was of sufficient size with enough data running through its systems to take advantage of machine … Continue reading Box deepens partnership with Microsoft and turns its attention to AI and machine learning→

Strange days indeed

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Two wooden figures holding hands in front of a lake. In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining the Linux foundation and Google joining Microsoft’s .NET foundation. You cannot minimize just how at odds these announcements are with what has been the reality of the tech industry over the last 20 years.… Read More Continue reading Strange days indeed→

Strange days indeed

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Two wooden figures holding hands in front of a lake. In a month of unexpected outcomes, we have also seen some tech partnership announcements, ones we thought we might never see. In fact, just this week we witnessed Microsoft joining the Linux foundation and Google joining Microsoft’s .NET foundation. You cannot minimize just how at odds these announcements are with what has been the reality of the tech industry over the last 20 years.… Read More Continue reading Strange days indeed→

Canonical-Pivotal partnership makes Ubuntu preferred Linux distro for Cloud Foundry

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Pivotal offices. Pivotal, developers of the Cloud Foundry open source cloud development platform and Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced a partnership today where Ubuntu becomes the preferred operating system for Cloud Foundry.
In fact, the two companies have been BFFs since the earliest days of Cloud Foundry when it was an open source project developed at VMware. Read More Continue reading Canonical-Pivotal partnership makes Ubuntu preferred Linux distro for Cloud Foundry→

Apple’s latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco

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shutterstock apple Lost in the hubbub of today’s two hour-plus Apple WWDC keynote was an announcement of deep integration between Apple and Cisco in the upcoming release of iOS 10 — yes, you read it correctly, Cisco. When it comes to enterprise partnerships, IBM has gotten the lion’s share of the attention. More recently, SAP made a high-profile partnership announcement of its own, but… Read More Continue reading Apple’s latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco→