Say a company adopts a big-data framework and puts all of its information in a data lake. Then it has it’s resident data scientists go in and carefully cleanse, wrangle and label the data. Think this company is doing data science, the kind that leads to artificial intelligence? Think again. “None of that is data science,” ...

Are machine-learning and artificial-intelligence models ready for prime time? Can organizations let them loose and allow intelligent technologies to act on their behalf, making decisions that affect customers? A special team at IBM Corp. is tuning the educated-guess engine that is a predictive-analytics model. It wants to up the educated factor, reduce the guess factor, and ...

Cloud-native and DevOps are terms we hear a lot lately. Businesses using these types of tools can generally innovate and deploy faster. That is what agile, digital business is all about. But some businesses using cloud-native and DevOps tooling have networks stuck in a monolithic, legacy time warp. This could stymie the pace of application development and ...

A heaping pile of new technology does not a business solution make. That is not to say cloud, serverless computing and open-source software tools are useless. But defining a business problem before going shopping can drastically reduce time to value, according to Stephanie Trunzo (pictured), worldwide vice president of IBM Cloud Garage at IBM Corp. “People ...

How are companies in 2019 going to make multicloud a practical reality? The jury seems to have selected containers (a virtualized method for running distribute applications). This is why legacies and startups alike are flooding the market with container products. Which should companies choose? Ever see those Red Hat Inc. T-shirts that say “Containers Are Linux”? ...

The database is at the core of data analytics and artificial intelligence in modern computing. But companies working on AI projects are finding traditional databases aren’t up to snuff. It turns out, the perfect potion to juice up databases for the AI age might very well be AI. This is the thinking behind IBM Corp.’s latest database announcements, ...

It can be tough fitting a single product in all the different-shaped slots in distributed information technology systems. Companies trying to make certain tech work as well on-premises as in several different clouds are in for a challenge. That’s why IBM Corp. is putting so much muscle — and money — into multicloud portability and integration. Containers, ...

What’s in a storage product? Nowadays, all-flash, data protection, and data availability are turning storage into a multitasking, multicloud machine. Storage computing doesn’t just deliver data across distributed systems — it also can also double as a cyber-resiliency aid. Storage and data-protection are increasingly becoming tools for “cyber resiliency,” according to Bina Hallman (pictured, right), vice president of software-defined ...

True or false? Multicloud computing means moving applications to different infrastructure environments, and containers’ virtualized method for running distributed applications neatly solve the whole multicloud mess by making apps portable across clouds. They are both basically true — if one looks only at the application part of a workload. The data is the other part, and it has its ...

Cybersecurity is in a pretty scary state. The news is a steady cycle of menacing headlines: Look at this fresh hell hackers are visiting on enterprises. The Hail Mary of security teams is artificial intelligence and automation. Enterprises hope AI will patch the skills gap expected to leave 1.8 million jobs unfilled by 2020. The problem is, hackers are getting ...