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Fujistu Working To Cram 1PB of Storage Into a Single Tape Drive

Home News (Image credit: IBM) An average tape drive stores roughly 12TB of data, but Fujitsu is working to expand that to 1PB, or 2.5PB after compression (2,500 TB), by 2035. That’s a massive increase from the 30TB of storage on today’s average tape drive. Most folks aren’t aware, but the lion’s share of the… Read more

Apple Wants More Macs in Businesses: Can It Take on Intel vPro, AMD Ryzen Pro?

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Having posted its all-time quarter record revenue of $111.4 billion this week, Apple is looking for ways to expand. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, sees selling Macs to businesses as one of the main growth opportunities for Apple, especially with the Apple M1 chip and its successors in tow. But with Intel appealing… Read more

Industry Group Accuses Nvidia of Twisting TPCx-BB Benchmark Results

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), an industry consortium that develops performance benchmarks for servers and data centers and includes names like AMD, Intel, and IBM, has accused Nvidia of violating the TPC’s Fair Use Policy. To compare the performance of its GPUs against other machines, Nvidia presented results from workloads derived… Read more

IBM: Loss of profit causes share price to fall

IBM suffered a surprisingly significant loss of business at the end of the year. In the final quarter, sales fell year-on-year by a good six percent to 20, 4 billion US dollars, about 16, 8 billion euros, as IBM announced on Thursday after the US market closed. Net income fell 42 percent to $ 1.3… Read more

Brief information: home office, IBM, online lessons, solar activity

Home office wherever possible The people in Germany need further patience in the corona pandemic: The federal and state governments have extended the lockdown to mid-February out of concern about the virus mutation and partially tightened it. Schools and daycare centers should also remain closed until then. But the countries want to implement this controversial… Read more

DNSpooq is the new series of DNS vulnerabilities: beware of phishing, credential theft, DDoS attacks

7 software vulnerabilities identified DNS widely used by connected device manufacturers and which threatens to jeopardize millions of devices di Andrea Bai published on 20 January 2021 , at 15: 41 in the channel Security JSOF, an Israeli company operating in the field of cyber security, today revealed the existence of seven vulnerabilities, known together… Read more

Union: IBM Germany is planning almost 1,000 layoffs

In Germany, IBM will give almost 1000 employees the termination. The group has informed its supervisory boards and the responsible works council committees accordingly in the last few days with maintaining competitiveness and realigning the organization and skills. This was announced by the service union ver.di. In order to implement the layoffs, negotiations on redundancy… Read more

The state of quantum computing: scalable in 15 years

Björn Meijer December 5 2020 17: 56 22 Comments Datasets and the World Food Problem Quantum computing is such a concept that is difficult to understand and therefore appears to be quite elusive and future music. Hardware Info spoke with IBM about the near future of this technology and exactly what it could mean for… Read more

Covalent chooses the IBM blockchain to certify the sustainability of its products

Covalent, a company operating in the sector of fashion, will trace the entire supply chain of its products through the IBM blockchain to measure the impact on the environment in the various production phases by Alberto Falchi published on 15 January 2021 , at 14: 04 in the Innovation channel blockchain IBM Covalent is a… Read more

IBM maintains patent leadership for the 28th consecutive year

In terms of patents IBM is second to none and in the last 28 years has always ranked first in terms of the number of registered inventions. In the only 2020, he obtained 9. 130 patents , attributed to more than 9. 000 inventors scattered among 54 Countries, including Italy, which contributed with 102 inventions…. Read more

Relocation complete: The Eclipse Foundation is now officially European

As announced, the Eclipse Foundation has moved its legal headquarters to Europe. To this end, it founded the Eclipse Foundation AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif), which is known in German as an international non-profit association (IVoG), a legal form used in Belgium for non-profit organizations. Now the foundation has completed all the formalities for… Read more

Lightspeed inside: Neuromorphic optical chip accelerates pattern recognition

An international team of researchers from Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain has combined a photonic processor architecture, in which data is represented by laser pulses, with an in-memory architecture for the first time. The chip presented in the journal Nature can process up to two trillion combined multiplication and addition operations per second. Software based… Read more

IBM releases critical security updates for many products

After a break over the holidays, IBM released the first security updates in 2021 last week . Weaknesses in ratings from “Low” to “High” affect numerous products across the company’s portfolio. In addition, a critical vulnerability lurks in several versions of IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer (server and endpoint). Under certain conditions, it enables any code… Read more

Martin Schroeter will be the CEO of IBM's NewCo for Infrastructure Services

The path started by IBM continues in October to split in two and leave infrastructure management services to a new company. Leading this process will be Martin Schroeter, former CFO of IBM of Riccardo Robecchi published 08 January 2021 , at 11: 11 in the Market channel IBM IBM continues towards the spin-off of the… Read more

Pay please! The first search engine helped fight check fraud 90 years ago

In the twenties, banks and companies in Germany began taking pictures of incoming and rejected checks on microfilm in order to curb the rampant check fraud. At Zeiss Ikon, the chemist Emanuel Goldberg devised a search device using image points that act as an index to each image on the microfilm (35 mm film) were… Read more