When a new innovation comes along it’s natural to get excited about it, especially when it comes to customer service. More and more is being demanded by customers, and in order to keep up, companies need new tools and solutions. […]
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In more ways than one, IBM’s Z mainframe resembles Doctor Who’s Tardis in being “bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.” That isn’t mere rhetoric. Along with a physical presence that tends to make even the most
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The tech industry loves “co-opetition” where competing vendors willingly work together when it is beneficial for themselves and their customers. Generally, the co-opetition dynamic works as advertised with some strategic relationships going back for decades. That said, co-opetition partners occasionally
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Big ideas are commonplace in the IT industry but they take on even larger roles at vendors’ annual customer and partner conferences. That was certainly the case at the recent Dell EMC World 2017 in Las Vegas. For the 13,500
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It won’t be long before we are up to our virtual necks in AIs and at NVIDIA’s GTC this week IBM stepped up with a new platform called PowerAI which targets AI developers and sort of performs the role of
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Reducing or eliminating complexity and risk are critical issues in the IT industry, especially when it comes to emerging technologies. Doing so is important for both short and long term strategies since success often leads customers into trying on new
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Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Square and Venmo have been moving into payments over the past several years, dramatically changing the way consumers pay for things. Checks and cash are fading as people increasingly pay using their phones or take
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Late last month the United Kingdom filed Article 50, officially notifying Europe of its intent to leave the European Union. This will most certainly impact the global economy, but can we trust our current forecasting systems to prepare us for
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Lenovo’s new DX8200D software-defined storage (SDS) appliance with DataCore’s SANsymphony is interesting technologically but also underscores the workings of the Lenovo Data Center Group’s (DCG) partner strategy. In essence, Lenovo designed the DX8200D to exploit the capabilities of existing SAN
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One of the inherent problems with IBM’s Power Systems Computing effort was its focus on the processor. This makes sense for companies like AMD and Intel which, at their heart, are processor companies but for IBM—a solutions company—this effectively crippled
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