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For responsible computing, you need responsible CTOs

Rashik Parmar IBM Think 2021
Recently, the role of chief technology officers made a resurgence in several companies, especially those more involved in technology. A CTO is responsible for overseeing the tech and engineering departments, as well as looking toward the future to decide what features need to be implemented to prepare and adapt to a tech-heavy economy. Being a responsible and forward-thinking CTO is just as important as being a tech-savyy one if a company wants to succeed in the digitized climate, according to Rashik Parmar (pictured), IBM fellow and vice president of technology of EMEA at IBM. “They recognize that this journey is very complex and the pandemic has created tremendous challenges,” Parmar said. “The market dynamics mean that they’ve got to try and really be thoughtful in taking cost out and making sure they survive some of these...
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Samsung re-envisioning the future of edge computing for ‘intelligent human edge’ 

KC Choi IBM Think 2021
As the pandemic has shown, edge computing is setting the trend for what’s going to be the preferred technological architecture for the next few decades. On the forefront of re-envisioning what edge computing can do for the future is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a powerhouse consumer electronics company. “Over a year with the COVID pandemic, that’s actually accelerated a lot of the thinking around the edge,” said K.C. Choi (pictured), corporate executive vice president and head of group with the global mobile B2B team at Samsung. “We’ve seen the edge … start be more extreme, in the sense that it’s pushing further and further out beyond what we originally envisioned the edge to be. We’re really re-envisioning what the edge is. ” Choi spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during...
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IBM on track with next-level, 1,121 qubit quantum computer by 2023

Jaime Thomas IBM Think 2021
This decade could hold more than a few breakthroughs for IBM, as the company claims to remain on target with plans to release a 1,121-qubit IBM Quantum Condor processor by 2023.  To achieve the long sought after quantum qubit status, IBM is relying on a harmonious ecosystem. For Big Blue, a well-timed intersection of hardware and software efforts brings the roadmap into view. “The key thing that we focused on in the last six months is really an articulation of our roadmaps, so the roadmap around hardware, the roadmap around software, and we’ve also done quite a bit of ecosystem development,” said Jamie Thomas (pictured), general manager of strategy and development of IBM Systems. Thomas spoke with Dave Vallente, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during IBM Think. They discussed the quantum computer,...
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Report: Pentagon looking at ending $10B JEDI cloud computing contract

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U.S. Defense Department officials are considering ending the JEDI cloud computing contract, the Wall Street Journal reported today. The JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, contract is set to see the Pentagon spend as much as $10 billion over 10 years on cloud infrastructure and services. The Pentagon awarded the deal to Microsoft Corp. in 2019.  The decision to choose Microsoft for the project came as a surprise because Amazon Web Services Inc., the largest player in the public cloud market by revenue, was widely expected to win JEDI. Microsoft’s contract win, which AWS says was influenced by political interference from former President Donald Trump, has been the subject of litigation ever since. Today’s report that the Defense Department has floated the idea of scrapping the contract comes a few months after the Pentagon...
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Dell tackles main pitfalls of managing edge computing: complexity, security and choice

Gil Shneorson Pierluca Chiodelli Dell Technologies World 2021
We all live on the edge — or at least close to it. Whether it’s the smart thermostat in your living room, the desktop computer in your home office, or the GPS in your car, most devices we rely on our in daily lives answer back to the cloud. With so many devices on the edge, however, managing each separate device, as well as the general infrastructure, can become a challenge. “What we see is not only the need of processing [artificial intelligence and machine learning] at the edge, but also the need of a new type of compute at the edge,” said Gil Shneorson (pictured, left), senior vice president of edge computing offers, strategy and execution at Dell Technologies Inc. “So in the past you would just send the data to the cloud. Now it’s a form of a new computer with [graphics processing unit] capability and other things to process the...
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Amazon proposes novel approach to quantum computing error correction

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Researchers at the Amazon Web Services Inc.-led AWS Center for Quantum Computing have published what they say is their first architecture paper today, describing a theoretical blueprint for a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The paper proposes an entirely new and apparently workable approach to the problem of “quantum error correction,” which is a key challenge that must be overcome in order to devise a working quantum computer that can live up to its full potential. The problem with quantum computers is that they’re incredibly fragile machines. Their potential comes from the fact they use “qubits” to perform computations, rather than the “bits” found in traditional computers. Whereas bits can hold a state of 0 or 1, qubits can be a 0, a 1 or both states at the same time. It’s this property that allows otherwise impossible...
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