The analyst take on IBM freeing machine learning tools for big data 'everywhere' #IBMML - SiliconANGLE

Extending the life of its mainframes yet again, IBM announced today that it is bringing machine learning to its traditional mainframe customers, and, eventually, to any computing processes located inside data centers. This will allow the mainframes to take advantage of data in a more modern machine-learning context and extend the useful life of the mainframe platform. In doing so, IBM is providing data scientists with the same types of machine learning capabilities in a mainframe environment that they are used to finding in the cloud. The goal is to automate the tedious work of creating, testing and deploying analytical models, freeing scientists to give more thought to the quality of their queries. "We're now entering the'Cognitive Era' with the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence," said Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's mobile live streaming studio.