IBM introduces enterprise magnetic tape drive that holds 50TB per cartridge

Magnetic tape drives have long occupied the role that hard drives have shifted toward since the emergence of SSDs – cost-effective cold storage. Although they're too slow for most users, recent developments allow magnetic drives to carry hundreds of gigabytes per square inch of tape. This

https://www.osnews.com/story/136824/ibm-introduces-enterprise-magnetic-tape-drive-that-holds-50tb-per-cartridge/

#IBM

The good old #IBM #PCs #Kleinanzeigen https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/ibm-type-8555-retro-rechner-/2529520280-228-5193

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes

Ars Technica writes:

There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That's not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are mostly retired or dead.

IBM, eager to keep those legacy functions on its Z ma

https://www.osnews.com/story/136752/ibms-generative-ai-tool-aims-to-refactor-ancient-cobol-code-for-its-mainframes/

#IBM

@SwiftOnSecurity #programming is #creative and #intellectual labour.

Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy #metrics like #LinesOfCode (#IBM) or #Commits (#Huawei) doesn't work.

In fact the latter ones did that #LyingWithNumbers for #KPI so hard on the @linux / #Linux #Kernel that they were close to getting #banned from the #LKML and #git.

Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code #readability is being a priority in #Linux!

Research Team Simulates Super Diffusion on a Quantum Computer https://thequantuminsider.com/?p=2357950 #Research #IBM #John_Goold #quantum_computing #research #simulation_super_diffusion_in_quantum_computer #Trinity_College_Dublin #quantumdaily Insider Brief Trinity College Dublin quantum physicists in collaboration with IBM Dublin have successfully simulated super diffusion in a system of interacting quantum particles on a quantum computer. This is the first step in doing highly challenging qu

Great #TerminalTalk episode with Joe Bostian & Chad McIntyre about #Python 🐍 for #IBM z/OS!

It's been a fascinating journey to watch what it takes to get a properly running Python on a totally different operating system than most of us are familiar with.

https://www.terminaltalk.net/e/joe-bostian-and-chad-mcintyre-python-and-open-source-update/ #zOS #IBMZ

#NSU #IBM Cybersecurity Initiative #HBCU #Cybersecurity https://jtspratley.com/blog/norfolk-state-university-nsu-ibm-partnership

@SeanCasten @GOP
I was somewhat surprised to see #IBM paying to promote their software that can be used to track corporations' #ESG efforts to make reporting easier on that foul site of ELoon's and the replies to it will show you why I think that it's such a waste of money.

Blahblah AI blahblah foundation model blahblah open source blahblah save the world. If IBM & Hugging Face really wanted to make a difference, they'd take 1% of the money behind this and channel it to forest defenders on the ground
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-08-03-IBM-and-NASA-Open-Source-Largest-Geospatial-AI-Foundation-Model-on-Hugging-Face?sf180690669=1
#foundationmodels #ibm #huggingface #climatecrisis

Absolutely no one:

Me: I was once the technical consultant on an #IBM training video starring the guy from the Topol “Smoker’s Toothpaste” commercial.

https://youtu.be/5AbwIDbpAis

IBM Blue Lightning: world’s fastest 386?

The Blue Lightning CPU is an interesting beast. There is not a whole lot of information about what the processor really is, but it can be pieced together from various scraps of information. Around 1990, IBM needed low-power 32-bit processors with good performance for its portable systems, but no one offered such CPUs yet. IBM licensed the 386SX core from Int

https://www.osnews.com/story/136532/ibm-blue-lightning-worlds-fastest-386-2/

#IBM

When I hear the name IBM, I still think of how they invented calculating machines and very deeply engaged with the Nazis to identify and murder people.

IBM not only *leased* their calculating machines to Nazis - which means IBM constantly sent service personnel to the death camps - but developed methods to calculate how many parts Jew, Roma, Sinti, and other 'Nazi metrics', before selecting you and your entire family for death. The calculating machines only worked on special punch-hole cards that were made and sold exclusively by IBM, to maximise profit.

When the USA entered the Second World War, IBM were informed they had to stop dealing with Germany, IBM circumvented this by simply saying 'well, then we'll no longer sell calculating machines to the U.S. government'. They were allowed to continue doing business with Germany.

This video clip is from the wondrously illuminating documentary 'The Corporation':

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=eajsDM7yZtw

The entire documentary: https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=5nFQDQMJARs

P.s. Edwin Black's book 'IBM and the Holocaust' is one that I wholeheartedly recommend to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

#IBM #nazi #WarCrime #TheCorporation

KPMG Becomes a Member of IBM Quantum Network to Enhance its QC Expertise https://thequantuminsider.com/?p=2356579 #Insights #Quantum_Computing_Business #collaboration #IBM #IBM_Quantum Network #KPMG #quantum_computing #quantumdaily In a recent YouTube video released by KPMG US, Cliff Justice, Partner and Leader of Enterprise Innovation for KPMG US, and Aparna Prabhakar, Vice President of Ecosystem, IBM Quantum, discuss the exciting prospects that arise from the collaboration between KPMG and IB

The IBM mainframe: how it runs and why it survives

Ars Technica has a great article about the IBM mainframe.

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If they’re dinosaurs, they’re T-Rexes, and desktops and server computers are puny mammals

https://www.osnews.com/story/136472/the-ibm-mainframe-how-it-runs-and-why-it-survives/

#IBM

@jwildeboer und ich bin anderer Meinung: #IBM und sein krankes Verhalten hat alles damit zu tun.

@jwildeboer ich höre mir gerne deine Argumente an. Oder lese eine verlinkte Seite. Mein letzter Stand ist, dass man von euch zwar gemäß #GPL den Source Code bekommt, aber die Geschäftsbeziehung von #RedHat einseitig beendet werden kann, sollte man diesen Code weitergeben. Ist das weiterhin so oder hat #IBM ein Einsehen?

IBM Quantum Research Points Toward Quantum Speedup in Tackling Complex, Useful Calculations https://thequantuminsider.com/?p=2356426 #Quantum_Computing_Business #Research #David_Layden #IBM #IBM_Quantum #Markov_chain_Monte_Carlo #MCMC #quantum_advantage #Sarah_Sheldon #quantumdaily Insider Brief IBM Quantum researchers report that near-term quantum computers may be able to use algorithms to solve complex problems faster than classical devices. The team showed that their approach, if it scales,

@nicklockwood that bug is very old, and #IBM / #RedHat ain't the first to do so.

The most public example before is #grsecurity, which also #paywalled access to #SourceCode...

QAI Ventures Welcomes New Cohort of Startups to its Accelerator https://thequantuminsider.com/?p=2356361 #Quantum_Computing_Business #accelerator #Anaqor #DWave #Europe #IBM #ionq #Kipu_Quantum #Mirex #Moonlight_AI #QAI_Ventures #QAI_Ventures_Accelerator #qdc #QuantumBasel #QuEra_Computing_Inc #Strangeworks #Switzerland #quantumdaily Insider Brief QAI Ventures announced the selection of its first cohort of startups for the QAI Ventures Accelerator program. Startups include Anaqor, Kipu Quantum,

Reading this with mild passing interest...

"Oracle takes on Red Hat in Linux code fight"
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/oracle-takes-on-red-hat-in-linux-code-fight/

#Oracle #IBM #RedHat #OracleLinux