As we increasingly experience the “Internet of Everything”, processing power is increasing in everything from watches to smartphones to computers, vehicles and devices we haven’t yet imagined. At the same time, the amount of data being collected into knowledge bases has given rise to artificial intelligence systems such as IBM’s Watson, which stunned the world by besting two unbeaten Jeopardy champions on national television.

What if every business could harness that kind of intelligence, which increasingly appears like real cognition? Now they can, without the need to invest millions in hardware and millions more in software. Thanks to the integration of Watson services and IBM Bluemix, every business can affordably access Watson’s AI to create applications that streamline business processes and slash the effort and cost to deliver the smartest of smart applications.

Attend this 3-part TechBytes series presented by Slashdot Media and sponsored by IBM to hear inventor and industry expert Marek Sadowski discuss three key areas:

• Taking Cognitive Computing to the Next Level with AI and IBM Watson
• How IBM Watson and AI will Influence Industries Worldwide
• Hijacking the Internet of Things with IBM Watson

Register now for these events and be one of the first to learn how to adapt the world’s leading AI platforms with simple to implement cloud tools.

About the presenter:

Marek Sadowski is a mobile full stack developer advocate, a robotics startup founder and an entrepreneur, who moved to Silicon Valley to promote IoT and robotics solutions driven by AI and Cloud. He shows live demos on how IoT and robots could get cognitive with IBM Watson.

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A guide to help CFOs and CIOs assess the managed services decision from a financial standpoint, as well as measure TCO on an ongoing basis.

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This guide provides insights into the key capabilities to look for in a managed services provider and can help you compare.

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In an age where there’s an app for everything, reducing the amount of time from ideation to deployment can deliver a real competitive advantage. For many organizations, the adoption of agile methodologies and DevOps practices have changed the way that organizations view IT and development teams, and have yielded measurable results and proven ROI.

This TechBytes series takes a quick dive into three areas of DevOps – an overview of methodologies; testing approaches; and automation of release practices – and delivers actionable advice on how organizations can best turn DevOps into bottom-line value.

About the presenter:

As an offering manager for IBM’s Continuous Testing portfolio, Marianne Hollier brings her nearly 20 years of testing, quality assurance, and quality engineering experience to shape and define the test automation and service virtualization offerings that IBM brings to market.

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In an age where there’s an app for everything, reducing the amount of time from ideation to deployment can deliver a real competitive advantage. For many organizations, the adoption of agile methodologies and DevOps practices have changed the way that organizations view IT and development teams, and have yielded measurable results and proven ROI.

This TechBytes series takes a quick dive into three areas of DevOps – an overview of methodologies; testing approaches; and automation of release practices – and delivers actionable advice on how organizations can best turn DevOps into bottom-line value.

About the presenter:

Eric Minick, leads the product management team to identify the path forward for our continuous delivery offerings at IBM, and shares that vision with their clients.

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In an age where there’s an app for everything, reducing the amount of time from ideation to deployment can deliver a real competitive advantage. For many organizations, the adoption of agile methodologies and DevOps practices have changed the way that organizations view IT and development teams, and have yielded measurable results and proven ROI.

This TechBytes series takes a quick dive into three areas of DevOps – an overview of methodologies; testing approaches; and automation of release practices – and delivers actionable advice on how organizations can best turn DevOps into bottom-line value.

About the presenter:

As IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO, DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption, Sanjeev Sharma is responsible for leading the worldwide technical sales community for DevOps offerings across IBM’s portfolio of tools and services, working with IBM’s customers to develop DevOps solution architectures for these offerings, and for driving DevOps adoption.

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As a best practice for solution delivery, a strong API strategy can drive a whole landscape of opportunity for IT managers. This paper draws from data collected by CIC and many customer discussions to highlight the most pressing API issues facing IT teams.

Download this white paper to learn:

• Why you need an API strategy
• Tips to avoid common pitfalls and barriers to compelling APIs
• Ways to foster new ecosystems
• The value of connecting back"

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One of the exciting areas of the IoT is its potential to change how we engage with technology and transact business. The move to IoT is providing unprecedented access to data that either didn’t exist before, or was too complicated and expensive to collect. While the Machine to Machine (M2M) era focused mainly on the challenges of connecting devices, the IoT era concentrates on the opportunities presented to businesses who use connected data. This data can provide valuable context for business processes. By collecting and analyzing IoT data, groups within an organization can increase efficiencies with services such as predictive maintenance and route optimization. It can also improve the customer experience by supporting new service experiences such as omnichannel retail and smart home applications.

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The maturing cloud computing landscape has provided new tools to help companies scale development and application innovations. there are at least seven ways that the cloud can be used to help businesses build apps that include at least the seven functions outlined below.

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Software applications are essential in today’s business environment, where internal and external services are delivered across mobile, social, collaboration, and cloud technologies. Application Performance Management (APM) is strategically important for companies that need to ensure the performance and availability of business-critical software applications -- if an application has problems that impact customers, a business can lose revenues or incur damage to its brand.

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Still wondering what all the application monitoring hype is about? Read more to find out all the reasons why you still don't need to monitor your apps, no matter what everyone else says!

• You already know your application is doing great and everyone loves it.
• You can't even remember your last outage; It was probably before you were born.
• All those nasty messages on Twitter about your app are just people being silly on the Internet.
• APM provides no real value to you or your business: it's about as informative as tabloid magazines.

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