12th IBM Cloud Garage opens in Munih





IBM opens its 12th Cloud Garage in Munih. The IBM Cloud Garage in Munih is located inside the Watson IoT headquarters.

IBM says this opening will bring its strength in cloud, agile tools, blockchain, data and AI to the region. Munih is regarded as Europes Silicon Valley.

IBM Cloud Garages are a network of physical hubs all around the world. It brings together designers, product managers and software architects to work side-by-side with IBM experts in order to help companies in new cloud innovations.

According to IBM, this new Garage will bring perspectives on cloud-powered agile development and design to this space, as well as projects that combine the potential of hybrid and cloud-native foundations with blockchain and AI tools. Additionally, it will tap into the nearby IBM development facility in Boeblingen, Germany, for deep expertise in data science, quantum computing and blockchain.

The other existing IBM Cloud Garages already launched in London; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Nice, France.

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SAP says 'It’s time to get real'




In a new study, SAP says 'Its time to get real'. Citing from Gartners report "on Peak of inflated Expectations" about Blockchain Technology, SAP decided to embark upon a new survey on the technology which covers hundreds of organisations currently engaged Blockchain to uncover realities.

The survey covers the results of the Blockchain future promise, current use cases, market adoptation, business impact.

The results of survey reveals interesting facts. These are mainly
Participants are optimistic about the future of the technology.
%92 sees technology as an oppurtunity.
The most promising use cases are identified as
Supply chain and IoT: %63
Legal and regulatory: %19
Cryptocurrency: %8
Sustainability: %3

In the study, SAP involvement on the blockchain technology is viewed by the participants as a major step forward to advance and accelerate further the progress of the technology especially on supply chain, manufacturing IoT markets. 

The majority of the participants would join SAP-led Blockchain consortium.

IBM rolles out Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) program



At the Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas, AI Developers welcome the announcement of Deep Learning as a Service.

The announcement was made by IBM at the conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Called as Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) program, this new cloud integration and security services is available within IBM's Watson Studio for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developers.

With this service, AI developers design complex neural networks then experiment at scale to deploy optimized deep learning models, within Watson Studio.

The introduction of the Deep Learning service does not mean this is the first-time IBM has ever had a deep learning offering (or used deep learning in its Watson services). IBM offered an on-premise version of Deep Learning for quite some time,  but this is the first time IBM offers a deep learning service on the cloud. Plus IBM continues to provide deep learning-based services to application developers with the Watson Developer Cloud.

IBM delivers deep learning through IBM Watson Machine Learning service which is integrated into IBM Watson Studio. The Neural Network Modeler works within the deep learning service. Data scientists, developers and business users can design their neural models through a drag-and-drop process without code. The Neural Network Modeler generates the code from one of the user’s preferred frameworks such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch or Caffe.

IBM’s deep learning offering differs from competitors in numerous ways:
  • Neural Network Modeler  is not currently offering by IBM competitors. 
  • Experiment Assistant delivers an experiment-centric managed container-based training flow that supports easy monitoring of parallel training runs built using the most popular deep learning frameworks.
Here how Tanmay Bakshi explain the model
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