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IBM’s New Mainframe Can Encrypt Everything All The Time
Mainframes might seem like the grey-beards of the IT business, with a less than bleeding edge rep compared to modern cloud-based systems. But IBM’s new Z Series systems could shift that perception. They have the ability to handle 12 billion encrypted transactions per day using a new encryption engine that makes it possible to pervasively…
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IBM Delivers IDaaS For Cloud App Access
IBM Cloud Identity Connect is a new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) that provides access to thousands of popular cloud apps with single sign-on (SSO) to their cloud or on-premise applications. The new service will be available on June 15th from the IBM Cloud Marketplace. There’s a free one-year subscription for up to five applications, for customers of…
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IBM’s Watson Working On AI For Endpoint Management
In the coming years we will see AI used in more ways and in applications we can scarcely imagine. This is a space IBM has been very active in, particularly through their Watson project. With people using more devices and the expected explosion in end-points with the IoT, they’ve applied their Watson tech to the…
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#CensusFail: Why IBM Rejected Nextgen’s DDoS Protection
IBM has been thrown under the bus ever since #CensusFail happened back in August. Big Blue was the IT contractor that was hired to run the Census website, which went down for nearly two days after being hit by repeated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. IBM’s upstream provider for the Census, Nextgen, has since…