At the IBM Think Virtual event this year, IBM clearly articulated what most of us are only beginning to realize, and that is the world we live in is about to change a lot. You might argue it has already …
The Think Virtual Keynote: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Stepped Up to the New World Read More »
I worked for IBM for around a decade in a variety of roles, including marketing, internal audit, and competitive analysis, giving me an unusual amount of depth on how the company almost failed in the 1990s. The firm went from …
We thought the cloud leaders were clear and had ranked them 1,2,3 as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. I never really understood this because when you talk about market leadership, you generally talk about revenue, but Google just broke out their …
IBM Passed Google to Take #3 Position In Cloud Revenue Long Ago (And No One Told Us) Read More »
Brand reinforcement is high on the agenda at IT vendor customer and partner conferences. After all, the vendors have access to big venues, professional production services and crowds of media on hand so explaining themselves and their strategies is natural. …
At Think 2019, IBM Opens a New Chapter for Itself and Business Partners Read More »
Over the past decade, the role of developers as agents of business and technological change qualifies as one of the tech industry’s biggest evolutionary shifts. It started with developers driving cloud computing and bring your own device (BYOD) adoption, then …
IBM and Apple AI for Developers: It’s the Real Thing Read More »
I’m at IBM Think this week and this is a huge conference. IBM can still pull an amazing number of IT professionals into an event. One of the more interesting discussions came during the Ginny Rometty keynote. This discussion was …
IBM and Royal Bank of Canada: Critical Partnership for the Future Read More »
It’s hardly a secret that data center-focused vendors celebrate new generation server microprocessors and systems. Coming after years of development and tens of millions of dollars in investment, new systems highlight vendors’ essential capabilities and their success in expanding the …
IBM Transforms POWER9 Advances into Mainstream Business Value Read More »
I’m ex-IBM myself and it gives me great pleasure to see my old firm do well. Well this quarter they didn’t disappoint with significant improvement in their new business initiatives, which are just short of 50 percent of revenue. You …
IBM’s Pivot Is Basically Over and They are Back to Kicking Butt Read More »
Successful business organizations seldom rest on their laurels but that’s hardly a surprise. Between continually shifting markets, constantly evolving economic and political developments and competitors looking for exploitable opportunities, companies that fail to maintain forward motion often find themselves at …
IBM’s New Gen LinuxONE – Modernizing the Mainframe and Benefitting Customers Read More »
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 …
IBM DB2 Direct Makes a Clear Case for Oracle Migration Read More »
