IBM’s mainframes aren’t the least expensive solutions in the market unless you take into account the risks they mitigate. Banks tend to be very frugal, yet they overwhelmingly favor IBM’s mainframe solution (at least the large banks do). This is …
This week IBM presented a major quantum computing update, and it was a fascinating experience. IBM does a nice job when presenting a technology. It steps away from the typical speeds-and-feeds thing to showcase how a technology can and should …
IBM just released its financials which show it has significantly outperformed its peers. Given IBM’s age, this is amazing in and of itself. But what is even more amazing is that the star of the IBM show is a mainframe, …
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. …
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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 »
