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TODAY June 8 at 11 a.m. ET: The Chief Data Officer Playbook – Creating a game plan

IBM applies cloud, Watson, and research to combat Zika virus

Interactive demo: Understand every step of the customer journey

Study: Enterprise mobility has changed the way companies conduct and secure business – forever

Uncover what’s inside the mind of a hacker – webcast TODAY June 8 at 11 a.m. ET

IBM speeds high performance data analytics with software-defined infrastructure technology

Making sense of DevOps tools: Open source to enterprise solutions

Trends and directions for collaboration solutions: IBM and IDC webcast



Analytics
Introducing an even easier Watson Analytics. IBM Watson Analytics has a brand new interface and has been redesigned to make everything – loading data, discovering insights, displaying findings – much simpler. And now you can try Watson Analytics Professional for free. Learn more.
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Apache Spark Makers Build: Compete for over $100,000 in prizes; enter by Aug. 3
Infographic: What is enterprise intelligence, and how does it work?
Bridging NoSQL databases into open data science initiatives
Cloud
Calculate cloud costs – and see what you can save with SoftLayer. See for yourself how SoftLayer® IaaS delivers high performance bare metal and virtual cloud servers, along with storage and networking, at a lower cost than most on-premises solutions. Try the online calculator.
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IBM Cloud first to offer latest NVIDIA GRID with Tesla M60 GPU, speeding up virtual desktop applications
In Forbes: FleetCor will move infrastructure behind its 1.9B transactions to IBM Cloud
Bluemix Essentials: FREE self-paced developerWorks® course gets you started with IBM Bluemix™
Commerce
Interactive demo: Understand every step of the customer journey. With IBM Customer Experience Analytics, you’ll see your apps and web sites from the customer perspective to discover new opportunities – and get the insights you need to resolve issues, boost conversions, and maximize lifetime customer value. Learn more and try the demo.
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Identify your top payment challenge and find a solution: Take the assessment (less than 10 minutes)
How marketers are breaking down barriers to growth: Observations from Amplify 2016
Exceptional digital experiences are redefining the ways we live and work: Online white paper
Mobile
Enterprise mobility has changed the way companies conduct and secure business – forever. Ninety-nine percent of the enterprise workforce uses mobile devices for work; 63 percent say that mobility comes with greater-than-expected risk. Learn about the state of mobile security today, and how enterprises will improve it in 2016. Download the study.
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Tutorial: Go from mobile app idea to working prototype in minutes – without writing a line of code
Mobile marketers: Leverage the full power of mobile messaging
On-demand webinar: Three things you should know about mobile security
Security
Uncover what’s inside the mind of a hacker – webcast TODAY June 8 at 11 a.m. ET. Did you know that an operating system vulnerability can be worth as much as $1 million on the black market? Ethical hacker Paul Ionescu wants to help developers “put their hackers’ hats on” to prevent software vulnerabilities. Register and attend live.
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Takeaways from CISO Forum 2016: What’s keeping CISOs awake at night?
Key insights from the 2016 Mobile Security & Business Transformation Study: Webinar June 15
The numbers are in: Gartner's 2015 Security Software Market Share Rankings
Watson
IBM Watson Explorer named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Big Data Text Analytics Platforms, Q2 2016. The study compared “10 providers that matter most,” including Watson Explorer Advanced Edition V11, which earned the highest score in the Strategy category. Get the details.
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AI is leaving the lab and entering the market: Watch the Washington Post video
Watson Learns a New Language: Korean. Watch on YouTube.
Watson reaches more than one million developers with two new services on Twilio
IBM Systems
IBM speeds high performance data analytics with software-defined infrastructure technology. New IBM Spectrum™ Computing software includes cognitive features to help clients improve management of computing resources, and achieve faster results from data-driven applications and analytics. Learn more.
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Modernize mainframe applications for digital business: IBM to acquire EZSource
New OpenPOWER software distribution puts deep learning a click away
Faster machine learning, and more: IBM scientists achieve storage memory breakthrough
DevOps
Making sense of DevOps tools: Open source to enterprise solutions. Join Michael Azoff, Principal Analyst at Ovum, and Sanjeev Sharma, IBM CTO of DevOps Technical Evangelism, as they discuss the evolution of DevOps, and findings from three recent Ovum Decision Matrix reports. Attend the live webinar June 16.
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Get a personal tour of UrbanCode® Deploy: Request a live demo
Panel discussion via DevOps.com: What DevOps looks like in 3 to 5 years
Take 10 minutes to evaluate the state of your current software delivery approach
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Living agile: How IBM moved 500,000 mailboxes to the cloud. IBM's Ed Brill shares how IBM deployed and rolled out Verse and Connections Cloud to 500,000 mailboxes in a matter of months, using a rapid, agile approach to scale globally. Watch on demand.
Plus:
Get your teeth into IoT with Grush, the gaming toothbrush powered by Watson
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