Because I worked with great people, one of my favorite jobs was as a competitive analyst at IBM. That was where the lock-in business model that Apple has embraced first became successful in the computer space. Lock-in has several advantages, …
The tech industry has fielded very mixed financial results this quarter. Major players like Google and Meta, the new kids on the block, did not perform well as their ad revenue-dependent business models highlight their traditional and troubling weaknesses. What …
IBM has held out the concept of a next- generation, digital assistant for some time. I once hoped that its partnership with Apple would result in a Siri upgrade to Watson that would finally make that poor AI meet expectations. …
Digital Iris AI Invades Dallas Airport Thanks to IBM and Soul Machines Read More »
Small- to medium-sized enterprises and businesses (SMEs/SMBs) face some unique challenges when it comes to accessing and adopting new technologies and IT services. Not surprisingly, tech vendors tend to initially target deep pocketed large enterprises with latest/greatest solutions and services, …
Last week, IBM had an analyst briefing on its security efforts and, unsurprisingly, it was one of the most comprehensive I have ever seen. For much of the 80s and 90s, upcoming companies like Apple, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems seemed …
IBM Steps Up to Showcase Unusual Security Competency Read More »
The close links between industry standard silicon and system vendors are clear every time new or next gen microprocessors hit the market. Intel or AMD issues a press release highlighting their latest achievements, along with a list of server vendors …
IBM Expands Power10 Portfolio with Midrange and Scale-Out Solutions Read More »
Annual technology customer and user conferences take on any number of shapes, but their underlying structure typically indicates the subjects and themes that are closest to the host vendor’s heart. In most cases, new commercial products and services take pride …
IBM Think 2022 – Embracing the Present, Preparing for the Future Read More »
IBM Power platform and products are quickly becoming an example of how to compete in a world defined by competing technologies. The X86 platform shared by Intel and AMD owns PCs and servers for the most part, while ARM (largely …
IBM Power Platform Advances with Merlin and the Power of Focus Read More »
IBM just released its financials. After divesting its legacy services unit, it’s showing an impressive 11% year-over-year growth in an increasingly challenged market due to the Russia/Ukraine war and sustained logistics issues related to that war and the pandemic. These …
The past two decades have been a time of revolutionary technological change in virtually every region and sector, but it is hard to think of any area where things have shifted more radically than in enterprise data centers. Consider that …
IBM’s New IBM z16 – Meeting and Anticipating Critical Enterprise Requirements, Again Read More »
