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 »
People respect and even revere the IT industry for innovative computing products that regularly appear in the market. However, the availability of those solutions depends on equally or even more innovative manufacturing processes. That underscores a fundamental truth about commercial
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We often talk about current rivalries like Google vs. Apple vs. Microsoft, but these pale next to some of the wars that have gone back decades. Granted the Sun vs. IBM war is long over and—surprisingly—IBM won. In fact, IBM
IBM Goes to War with Oracle: IT Customers Praise Result Read More »
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
IBM & Continuum Squeeze Complexity and Risk Out of Cognitive Development Read More »
Like the other 125+ industry analysts attending the recent IBM InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, I attended various keynote speeches, partner panels, product updates and client meetings, but I found two sessions with IBM executives particularly interesting. The first
Lessons from IBM InterConnect – Disruption is Inevitable Read More »
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
IBM Power Systems Grows Up to Be Cognitive Computing Read More »
Watch the IT industry long enough and you develop a healthy skepticism for anything labeled “new” or “unique” but now and then something thoroughly different than most anything that has gone before comes along. A few cases offer such clear
IBM Builds the Case and Market for Quantum Computing Read More »
