Within one month we saw one IT giant after another coming up with “open-source” frameworks for ML / Advanced Analytics. This can’t be a coincidence! 

• IBM most recently announced SystemML – specializing on abstraction and model generation.
• Microsoft announced just 2 weeks ago: DMLT – Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit
• Intel announced just before their TAP (Trusted Analytics Platform) – specializing on a secure data platform.
• Google did similar with TensorFlow – specializing on deep learning and flexible approaches to parallelization.

Read more at this Gartner’s post.