Around the same timePhil Estesof (then at IBM) was writing a container benchmarking tool calledBucketbench. This was a problem that other people were clearly interested in solving. Phil’s tests showed that for pre-pulled images, runc (the lowest level of a container in Kubernetes) could st...
Westporter Alan Nudelman died Wednesday. He was 87. The Chicago native graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering. He served as an Army lieutenant. After 25 years at IBM, he became president of Composition Materials for 30 years. Alan is survived by his wife Kay...
It is also important to keep in mind that when JD was founded it was very much a one man show where Richard pretty much took on most of the executive responsibilities as the company did not have the money nor reputation to hire professional managers. JD upgraded its C-suite in the early...
Among the largest US companies in China are household names like Apple, Ford, Tesla, GM, Qualcomm, McDonald’s, KFC, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, GE, IBM and on and on. Each earns and burns billions in China. But if things get worse between our two countries, ...
Sometimes, such harsh actions work. IBM, which had its self-described “near death experience” back in the mid-1990s, had tens of billions of dollars of writeoffs – just absolutely unheard of,unimaginable,inconceivablefor the original blue chip stock – and laid off 200,000 of its 400,000...
Other big sponsors include IBM, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and HP. All will be seeking to recruit women and increase the diversity of their workforce. So, is this a "jobs fair" I asked?They laughed and said no; but there is intense competition to rec...
IBM drops $1.2B to significantly expand its global cloud footprint Jan 21, 2014 5 mins analysis Big data analytics star in VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 update Jan 13, 2014 5 minsShow me more PopularArticlesVideos analysis Breaking the cloud monopoly By David Linthicum Apr 22, 20255 min...
For a while there, it looks like Suzhou PowerCore, a revamped PowerPC re-implementer that joined IBM’s OpenPower Consortium and thatdelivered a variant of the POWER8 processor for the Chinese market, might try to extend into the POWER9 and POWER10 eras with its own POWER chip designs. ...
More in the feild of Neuro Genetics. The Man Who’sBuilding a Computer Made of Brains,IBM cracks open a new era of computing with brain-like chip. Filed underRevolutinary,startups,Tech startupsand taggedAga khan university hispital,Alzheimer,android,apple,artificial intelligence,artificial limbs...
The numbers tell the story, market value of $90 billion, expected revenues this year of $49 billion, 20% revenue growth in its most recent quarter, and operating margins consistently above 8%, compared with slim to no operating profits on PCs for HP, Apple, and IBM. The company has ...