To that end, Andrés Cepeda will make available to IBM part of his music history for IBM Watson –through technologies such as Watson Beat and Watson Tone Analyzer- to indicate the emotional tone, language and music structure that match the sentiment of his fans. The technology will help him compose a full song (music and lyrics) whose final arrangement and performance will be the responsibility of the artist.

IBM’s cognitive computing system, Watson, is a cloud-based platform that learns similarly to humans via senses, learning, and experience. It can analyze large volumes of unstructured and structured data, understand natural language, and glean insights to improve the decision-making of professionals in a wide range of fields. As Watson learns information from additional data, its machine learning capabilities makes it more intelligent over time to solve challenges and expand human expertise.

Through this partnership, IBM Watson Beat will study big volumes of data including the lyrics and melodies of the artist’s full musical pieces, and IBM Watson Tone Analyzer will study conversations on social networks and social trends, among other sources, taking Andres Cepeda’s creativity and potential to a whole new level and integrating the highest human sensitivity with leading-edge technology to create a totally new collaboration in music.

The resulting collaboration with Andrés Cepeda will be released in September, with the introduction of a new single to drop by the end of the year.

“As artists, we want to create deep connections with our audience and find inspiration in places we never imagined. For that reason, IBM Watson is a great assistant to accomplish this goal,” said Andrés Cepeda.

“This partnership with Grammy-winner Andrés Cepeda is a sign of how augmented intelligence can help artists and other professionals spark new innovations and discoveries in music and other industries including healthcare, finance, and architecture,” said Federico Martínez, General Manager IBM Colombia. “Andrés is a forward thinking artist who will revolutionize the Latin America music industry through cognitive computing that understands human emotions, social trends, language styles, and the most successful rhythms or hits, to help musicians continue creating in really innovative ways.”

This project uses Watson Beat, which interprets musical theory, structure and emotional intent from a few notes and can expand upon it to create entire songs; and Watson Tone Analyzer, which detects tone and style in a piece of text in conversation or communications. Tone Analyzer uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones in written text: emotions, social tendencies, and writing style.

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“We are excited about the launch of our newly redesigned website and all it has to offer to our clients. As our collection continues to grow, I continue to look to those nearest me for strength and inspiration. Intricate but not complicated, bold but still bright, these pieces reflect the women in my life for which they are named,” said Dana Gordon, Founder of Dana Rebecca Designs.

Dana Rebecca Designs is based in Chicago with retail locations across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. There are also over 10 online retailers that carry the products and are highly educated about the jewelry.

Dana Rebecca Designs partnered with Alpine Consulting as the solution, services and development partner to create and release the new website on the Magento eCommerce platform.

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They also need to work at breakneck speed and combine endurance with vast storage capability and serviceability. Such is the case with the latest server from IBM — the Power System S812.

With the proven Power8 processor at its core, the Power System S812 is the entry point into the Power8 server family and brings a range of advantages, not the least of which is the double-speed to which it moves data to the point of impact. The S812 is a smart option for small businesses and scale out deployments that require powerful processing in a small footprint. While the Power System S812 supports a maximum of 64 GB DDR4 memory for IBM i workloads as well as a maximum of 128 GB DDR4 memory for AIX tasks, it’s extremely energy efficient, and easy to manage.

The S812 brings the power of data systems technology to a whole new level. The thrust of the innovative Power System S812 combines enhanced speed with greater efficiencies to move the physical and virtual boundaries of data center technology to drive faster data-centric applications that businesses rely on for increased productivity. Data-intensive businesses will appreciate the faster insights provided by the S812’s POWER8 processor, as well as the smart acceleration enabled by CAPI technologies such as accelerators for key workloads.

Additionally, the S812 allows businesses to achieve lower latency and a smaller footprint with CAPI Flash. IT professionals can also move data in and out of systems with greater speed and efficiency, thanks to double the memory and I/O expansion. The Power System S812 also provides enhanced speed and efficiency for database, transactional and other highly multi-threaded applications, thanks to transactional memory that is supported by 50 percent more cores — and twice the number of simultaneous threads per core.

The Power System S812 server solutions and services have been designed for small- to medium-sized businesses requiring optimal performance while keeping their infrastructure state of the art. Building on the success of IBM’s groundbreaking Power Systems line, the S812 is an invaluable tool to help organizations to take advantage of new business opportunities and manage risk, while providing an incomparable level of service, all designed to fit neatly into tight budgets.

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