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, …
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 …
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 …
AMD had a busy week last week, launching three significant new offerings across their ecosystem. First, they released their new EPYC enterprise-class of processors, which appear to more than double performance in some implementations. They refreshed their Mobile Ryzen line …
This week IBM announced they were able to get one of their most potent quantum computers, a 27 -qubit client deployed system to achieve a quantum volume of 64. This advancement shortens the potential timeline till “quantum advantage,” the time …
One of the first jobs I got after I joined IBM was in Competitive Analysis. I got the job after doing a several year stint in Internal Audit as part of a hand-picked Tiger Team. I made a bit of …
IBM Moves to Introduce ‘Confidential Computing’ to Adjust to the New Normal Read More »
