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A major focus of the announcements from IBM Corp.’s Think conference last week involved artificial intelligence and making it available across all cloud platforms. This “AI everywhere” approach applies to IBM’s storage strategy as well. In December, IBM announced a storage system …
Cloud-managed databases target cost and simplify adoption
When it comes to cloud-managed databases, IBM Corp. has designed an approach to let developers focus on building applications while it maintains cloud-based systems to save cost and make administration easier. “Cloud-managed databases, at its core, is about simplifying adoption of cloud-provided services …
Cisco and IBM partnership seeks order in a chaotic multicloud world
Multicloud means multichoice, and that can get complicated real fast. When Chuck Robbins, chairman and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., spoke on his company’s earnings call last week, he acknowledged what enterprise companies had been experiencing for some time. Today’s …
Red Hat’s true value may be strengthening IBM’s enterprise cloud ‘RHELevance’
Linux has blossomed into the right platform at the right time for enterprise computing. When she was vice president of Cognitive Systems at IBM Corp., Stefanie Chiras (pictured) kept a vial of metal on her desk, a memento of an internship spent …
Cloud and Red Hat will determine future course for IBM
IBM Corp.’s customers are not just looking for the company to simply deliver services anymore. They want help in developing new business models and transforming the enterprise, according to analysts. Meeting customer need will depend a great deal on how IBM leverages …
How IBM is working with AI and farmers to protect crops and improve yields
On today’s farm, a silo is more than just a place to store grain. It represents an isolated pocket of data, information that could dramatically improve crop yields and capitalize on consumer demand if properly channeled across the agricultural ecosystem. The Weather …
Race is on to light up the data-driven hybrid cloud network
During the IBM Think conference in San Francisco this week, IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty declared that a combination of private data centers and cloud computing would result in a market worth $1 trillion by next year. That’s the hybrid model reshaping …
IBM focuses on AI while pledging responsible handling of client data
In today’s privacy-sensitive climate, when a large technology company is in position to gather a significant amount of data from a client’s business operation, the next question is fairly obvious. How exactly will that data be used? Although IBM Corp. is not …
Amazon looms large as IBM makes the case for its multicloud strategy
The keynote remarks delivered by IBM Corp. Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty at IBM Think in San Francisco on Tuesday were less of a product pitch and more of a dialogue with partners and customers around digital reinvention and the evolving role of multicloud …
At Think, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pitches digital reinvention 2.0
IBM Corp.’s flagship technology conference Think in San Francisco attracted 30,000 people this week and, by midafternoon on Tuesday, it appeared that every single one of them was trying to enter the convention hall where Chief Executive Ginni Rometty was scheduled to deliver a major address. …