In a bid to encourage more developers to use its Watson cognitive computing services, IBM is sponsoring a new development contest that offers $5 million in total prize money. However,
Cisco and Pivotal have signed an agreement to resell each other’s cloud computing offerings. Both will sell the Pivotal Cloud Foundry cloud development platform, as well as Cisco’s Metapod, an
Although it hasn’t made a public announcement, Verizon has been notifying customers that its Public Cloud Reserved Performance and Marketplace services will cease operations on April 12, 2016. The company
IBM has taken the wraps off a new Internet of Things (IoT) development tool called Quark. Available under an open source license, Quark is based on the IBM Streams tool
IBM has launched a new mainframe system called the z13s, which is optimized for hybrid cloud computing environments and features outstanding security. According to the company, the z13s can encrypt
Last month, a group of developers sent an open letter to GitHub complaining about the service’s lack of responsiveness and requesting several improvements to features. GitHub has finally responded with
At the Rackspace::Solve event, Rackspace announced that it would begin offering a private cloud computing stack based on Red Hat’s version of OpenStack. Rackspace customers can run Red Hat Enterprise
The Node.js Foundation has announced that it will take over management of the open source Express Web server framework. In the past, StrongLoop, which was acquired by IBM, had managed
A group of American computer science researchers has published a new analysis of GitHub data that yielded a very unexpected result. The team went looking for gender bias against women