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| 26.03.2025 | The New Face of Tech Hiring: Elitism and Layoffs in the American Job Market | The American tech landscape is shifting. A recent leak from a US recruiter has thrown a spotlight on the exclusive hiring practices that are shaping the industry. Meanwhile, tech giants like IBM are making headlines for massive layoffs. Tog... |
| 25.03.2025 | IBM layoffs: Why the tech major reportedly plans to slash nearly 9,000 jobs in the United States | In the latest round of corporate restructuring, IBM is laying off approximately 9,000 employees across multiple locations in the US. The employees who are likely to exit comprise a quarter of staff working on the corporation’s Cloud Classic... |
| 13.05.2024 | Sensibill Launches eReceipts in Partnership with Scotiabank for Receipt Management in Mobile Banking | If you dread being audited because you always forget to keep the right receipts, we’ve got news for you.
Sensibill, a white-labeled solution that allows banking customers to manage their receipts directly from desktop and mobile banking app... |
| 26.02.2019 | Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server | Enlarge
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More than five years have passed since researchers warned of the serious security risks that... |
| 26.04.2017 | IBM launches 4 new data centers in the U.S. | IBM, which has been putting a lot of emphasis on its cloud services and infrastructure lately, today announced that it is opening four new data centers in the United States. These new facilities — two in Dallas, Texas and two in Washington,... |
| 30.03.2017 | Verizon Ventures Joins $25M Series B for MapD Technologies | GPU analytics company MapD Technologies today announced it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors NVIDIA, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The f... |
| 30.03.2017 | NEA Leads $25M Series B for MapD Technologies | GPU analytics company MapD Technologies today announced it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors NVIDIA, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. The f... |
| 18.01.2017 | Fundica Roadshow offering $1 million investment award to one startup | For its fifth year, the Fundica Roadshow is partnering with First Stone Venture Partners to offer a $1 million investment award to one startup.
With 10 stops across Canada, early-stage startups will get a chance to pitch their business to a... |
| 25.10.2016 | IBM to fold SoftLayer into Bluemix | IBM will blend its Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering with its SoftLayer bare metal cloud servers infrastructure-as-a-service from now following customer feedback for less complexity.
Customers will be able to use a single IBMid login t... |
| 11.09.2016 | 5 ways artificial intelligence will change enterprise IT | It’s been a busy summer in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) space, but the most interesting A.I. opportunities may not come from the biggest names.
You may have heard about Tesla’s self-driving cars that made headlines twice, for vastly d... |
| 11.09.2016 | 5 ways artificial intelligence will change enterprise IT | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s been a busy summer in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) space, but the most interesting A.I. opportunities may not come from the ... |
| 15.08.2016 | Workday gives IBM big win with seven-year cloud deal | Workday announced a 7-year cloud infrastructure deal with IBM Softlayer today to run their development and testing services on IBM’s cloud, handing IBM a huge win in the process.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the news.
It’s a big d... |
| 20.05.2016 | Startup spending guide: Where to spend money | Ryan Angilly Contributor
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| 05.04.2016 | Virtual supercomputer joins TB fight | Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are expected to contribute vast computing resources to aid the 'Help Stop TB' project.
Computing power is expected to boost research needed to combat tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's most deadly dise... |
| 10.02.2016 | IBM’s SoftLayer has quietly blocked users in Iran | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
IBM’s SoftLayer, which provides server hosting an... |
| 10.02.2016 | IBM’s SoftLayer has quietly blocked users in Iran | IBM’s SoftLayer, which provides server hosting and cloud infrastructure around the world, has blocked all IPs coming from Iran. The service, which competes with cloud services from Amazon and Google, has a large base of user organizations, ... |
| 07.12.2015 | IBM launches Object Storage service on Bluemix, 10 years after AWS launched S3 | IBM today announced the beta availability of Object Storage, a new storage service on its Bluemix cloud.
The release definitely has a late feel to it, considering that the market leader in the public cloud business, Amazon Web Services, ann... |
| 07.12.2015 | IBM launches Object Storage service on Bluemix, 10 years after AWS launched S3 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
IBM today announced the beta availability of Obje... |
| 28.10.2015 | Attention Innovators: Here’s Your Chance to Win $20,000 in Prizes | Are you an innovator? Or, at the very least, do you or someone you know consider yourself an innovator? What even is an “innovator”? Am I an “innovator”? (Answer to that last question: no). If you're one of the thousands of people participa... |
| 08.07.2015 | IBM SoftLayer launches servers with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators | IBM today announced the availability of new servers packing Nvidia’s Tesla K80 GPU (graphic processing unit) accelerators in the IBM SoftLayer public cloud. IBM is the first cloud provider to start offering dedicated, “bare metal” servers f... |
| 08.07.2015 | IBM SoftLayer launches servers with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
IBM today announced the availability of new serve... |
| 04.03.2015 | IBM Watson Group Buys AlchemyAPI To Enhance Machine Learning Capabilities | IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform made famous by beating the three best Jeopardy! champions ever several years ago, bought Denver-based AlchemyAPI today. It did not reveal the purchase price.
The acquisition gives Watson a ke... |
| 23.10.2014 | Mark Cuban slams IBM: It's 'no longer a tech company. They have no vision.' | Three days after IBM reported yet another disappointing quarter, its stock is still in a downward spiral, and people are piling on to criticize the company.
That’s because this was 10 quarters in a row of declining revenue, with every busin... |
| 11.06.2014 | IBM lowers its SoftLayer cloud prices while no one is looking | IBM walks a fine line in the public cloud business. It wants to remain competitive with its rivals, but it also wants to seem special and distinct.
That careful positioning played out in a statement IBM’s SoftLayer public cloud business mad... |
| 24.02.2014 | Google debuts a calculator to predict public cloud costs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google wants you to know up front just how much i... |
| 24.02.2014 | Google debuts a calculator to predict public cloud costs | Google wants you to know up front just how much it would cost to run an application on its public cloud.
The beta version of Google’s new Cloud Pricing Calculator lets developers estimate their needs for storage, memory, CPU, and other reso... |
| 07.02.2014 | IBM looks to end the OpenStack wars with Jumpgate — a bridge to public clouds | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As open-source cloud software OpenStack picks up ... |
| 07.02.2014 | IBM looks to end the OpenStack wars with Jumpgate — a bridge to public clouds | As open-source cloud software OpenStack picks up more and more momentum, public-cloud providers are thinking hard about how much they should support OpenStack when many of them already have their own proprietary systems.
IBM is looking to m... |
| 23.01.2014 | Lenovo finally walks away with IBM’s low-end server business for $2.3B | The deal is done: IBM has sold multiple lines of low-end data center equipment to Lenovo for around $2.3 billion.
Yesterday we got some indication the deal was close to completion, and now everything is official.
Lenovo gets 7,500 employees... |
| 18.12.2013 | Happy holidays: Amazon gives China a cloud of its own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At the Amazon Web Services user conference in Las... |
| 18.12.2013 | Happy holidays: Amazon gives China a cloud of its own | At the Amazon Web Services user conference in Las Vegas last month, senior vice president Andy Jassy warned everyone that the already large public cloud would be increasing its geographical reach. “We’re not close to being done here,” Jassy... |
| 28.10.2013 | Cloudera makes Hadoop an easier cloud option — and IBM, Savvis, and Verizon like it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Cloudera is embracing the cloud in a big way.
The... |
| 28.10.2013 | Cloudera makes Hadoop an easier cloud option — and IBM, Savvis, and Verizon like it | Cloudera is embracing the cloud in a big way.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is expanding its partner ecosystem to bring its distribution of Apache Hadoop, the open-source data processing framework, to public cloud services from IBM, V... |
| 20.10.2013 | IBM Is Not A Cloud King | IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy.
Revenues were down $1 billion with hardware sale... |
| 12.09.2013 | RIAA Asks Softlayer to Shut Down “Pirate” Sites, Identify Owners | Despite a plethora of legal options millions of people still download MP3s from unofficial sources. These sites are a thorn in the side of the RIAA, who represent the largest music labels in the world.
One of the ways the music group is try... |
| 04.06.2013 | IBM to acquire cloud infrastructure powerhouse SoftLayer | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After numerous rumors that it was going to happen... |
| 04.06.2013 | IBM Buying SoftLayer in Cloud-Computing Wars | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
IBM announced Tuesday it is acquiring Dallas-based SoftLayer, which will serve as the keystone for its new cloud service division, along with IBM’s SmartCloud franchise.
Terms... |
| 17.03.2013 | The Winners of Tech Cocktail’s SXSW Power Hour Pitch Jam Are… | In keeping with the fast pace of SXSW, we put 29 startups on stage at our SXSW Startup Celebration sponsored by CEA and .CO for 60 seconds each. There were talking phones, a bit of screaming, and the promise of a tattoo (more on that below)... |
| 15.03.2013 | EMC & IBM reportedly looking to buy Amazon cloud rival SoftLayer | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Enterprise behemoths EMC and IBM are taking a clo... |
| 14.12.2012 | 4 key survival tips for early-stage startups | Regardless of where you live, starting up a business and growing it through its early stages is difficult. As the chief strategy officer for SoftLayer, I’ve had the opportunity to mentor hundreds (if not thousands) of entrepreneurs and star... |
| 14.12.2012 | 4 key survival tips for early-stage startups | Regardless of where you live, starting up a business and growing it through its early stages is difficult. As the chief strategy officer for SoftLayer, I’ve had the opportunity to mentor hundreds (if not thousands) of entrepreneurs and star... |
| 13.11.2012 | Multi-cloud 101: Tips for navigating public, private, and hybrid clouds | As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, cloud leaders are defining ever more sophisticated app architectures that leverage both public and private clouds.
CloudBeat 2012 will assemble the biggest names in the cloud’s evolving story to un... |
| 13.11.2012 | Multi-cloud 101: Tips for navigating public, private, and hybrid clouds | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, cloud ... |
| 09.11.2012 | Anatomy of a Demo Day: FounderFuel’s fall 2012 cohort graduates (in pictures) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
MONTREAL — Everything comes down to this.
Every w... |
| 09.11.2012 | Anatomy of a Demo Day: FounderFuel’s fall 2012 cohort graduates (in pictures) | MONTREAL — Everything comes down to this.
Every waking moment of the last three months. All the hopes and dreams of the last few years of your life. And all the thousands of hours you and your team have put into your business idea, your sit... |
| 06.11.2012 | Where the world’s million most visited websites are hosted (infographic) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Quick trivia question: Which U.S. city hosts the ... |
| 06.11.2012 | Where the world’s million most visited websites are hosted (infographic) | Quick trivia question: Which U.S. city hosts the most of the world’s million most-visited websites?
That would be Houston, with over 50,000 of the most-trafficked sites in the world, and more than twice the second-place city, Mountain View,... |
| 06.11.2012 | Thanks, Toronto, For Hosting A Great TechCrunch Meetup | Monday night was our TechCrunch meetup in Toronto and we had a blast. The city’s entrepreneurs and tech community showed up in full force for a night of networking and revelry, hosted at Toronto local gem the Steamwhistle Brewery. For me pe... |
| 05.10.2012 | Epic Playground wants to be the Chartbeat for media analytics (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re a publisher, musician, or any other cre... |
| 02.10.2012 | Open Source CMS MODX Launches Cloud Service | Today open source content management company MODX is launching a hosted cloud service to commercialize the product, much as Acquia and WordPress.com have done for Drupal and WordPress.
MODX started out as a volunteer open source project in ... |
| 11.09.2012 | Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku | I’ve had a sense for a while that infrastructure-as-a-service (like Amazon Web Services) and platform-as-a-service (like Heroku) are converging. Developers love the idea of using a PaaS to speed up provisioning and deployment, but don’t nec... |
| 15.03.2012 | Five common fears of the cloud | Cloud adoption is trending massively up and to the right. Yet many managers and CFOs are still wary about becoming heavily dependent on cloud technologies, mostly due to questions around cost, security, and the challenge of managing many di... |
| 19.01.2012 | Top 0 Lessons Learned from the SOPA Protest | So what just happened? Well, several of the world’s most prominent Web destinations interrupted their regular programming to remind their readers of the dangers of a world where certain content may be arbitrarily made to disappear. For most... |
| 17.01.2012 | SendGrid gets $21M in capital, led by Bessemer | Deliverer of cloud-based email solutions plans goes after enterprise market and London expansion
With more and more enterprise companies turning to the cloud for services, SendGrid, a cloud-based provider of email services, hopes to piggyba... |
| 09.08.2011 | PeopleBrowsr launches startup accelerator for social apps in San Francisco | PeopleBrowsr is launching PeopleBrowsr Labs today, a startup accelerator where social media-focused developers can build their apps in a collaborative and supported setting.
The San Francisco space will house between 20 and 30 individuals, ... |
| 09.08.2011 | PeopleBrowsr launches startup accelerator for social apps in San Francisco | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
PeopleBrowsr is launching PeopleBrowsr Labs today... |
| 08.11.2010 | Hosting Companies The Planet And SoftLayer Complete Merger | The Planet and SoftLayer, both giants in the world of dedicated server and Web hosting services, have merged. The news of the merger, which has been subject of rumors and speculation for months now, was confirmed in a (confidential) email t... |
| 30.09.2009 | SoftLayer Receives $20M in Debt Financing | DH Capital, LLC, an investment banking firm serving companies in the Communications and Internet Infrastructure sectors, announced the closing of up to $20m in senior notes for SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. from a private investment group.
P... |
| 28.07.2009 | Downside Of OpenDNS: It Can Extend Website Outages | Hosting provider SoftLayer was partially taken down this morning from a DDOS attack, and several well known websites, including TechMeme and TwitPic, went down with it.
The problem at SoftLayer was resolved, but some users of OpenDNS, a DNS... |
| 01.07.2009 | Cloud Computing by the Hour | Earlier last month web hosting provider SoftLayer announced the availability of cloud services on an hourly basis. The offering includes flat hourly rates for cloud instances, while cloud storage is accessible on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Whil... |
| 18.02.2008 | We’re Back… | No MPAA or RIAA
No DDOS
Hardware troubles caused the downtime, normally not that big of a problem if the people at Softlayer weren’t that incompetent. It took them 12 hours to find out that the motherboard died, and another 12 to reinstall ... |
| 30.03.2007 | TorrentScan.com Shut Down Due to DMCA Violation | Mavol, the owner of Torrentscan.com was stunned by the action of his hosting company (softlayer), but up until now he didn’t receive any explanation for this bizarre action. To make things even sillier, his other sites like imgboot.com and ... |
| - | IBM anuncia interesse em parcerias e soluções para startups brasileiras | A IBM apresentou alguns seus serviços de nuvem e apoio a startups, como a Softlayer, startup adquirida pela IBM que oferece serviço de nuvem e sua incubadora, a Catalyst, que já aceitou startups brasileiras. Marcela Vairo, executiva de alia... |
