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IBM pledges commitment to Spark

July 3, 2015 By editor

IBM announced a major commitment to Spark last month, calling the open source project

potentially the most important new open source project in a decade.

The announcement covered a number of actions, including

  • building Spark into the core of the company’s analytics and commerce platforms
  • using Spark to power Watson Health Cloud
  • open sourcing their SystemML machine learning technology and collaborating with Databricks to advance Spark’s machine learning capabilities
  • offering Spark as a cloud service on IBM Bluemix
  • having 3500 researchers and developers work on Spark-related projects
  • educating more than 1m data analysts on Spark through extensive partnerships
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