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IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data.  IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The announcements …

When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers (CIOs) tend to become resistant, mostly because of management and security issues. BYOD is a trend which sooner or later …

The Brazilian holding company EBX Group,  owned by Brazil’s richest man Eike Batista, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have reached an agreement under which IBM will acquire a 20% stake in …

Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms deliver them to their workforce, the …

IBM Brazil said it has invested $22.85 million (R$40 million) to launch its first corporate public cloud in the country. According to José Luis Spagnuolo, cloud computing director at IBM …

Over its 40 years, German enterprise software giant SAP (SAP) has signed up 35 million end users to its traditional enterprise solutions. In the last 15 months, SAP said it …

Following a decade of consolidating its portfolio to counter commoditization of its services and focus on more value-added solutions, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has an aggressive acquisition plan that includes investing $20 …

Citing plans to expand its operations in mobile application development, integration, security and management, IBM (IBM) reported a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Israeli-based Worklight, a provider of mobile software …

Big information technology companies posted positive results for their recent fiscal quarter and their optimist outlook for 2012 may suggest a growth in IT spending. However, Gartner recently reduced its …

In its second edition, Ericsson’s Networked Society City Index ranked 25 of the world’s largest cities according to their ability to use ICT for social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index — Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm — have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT, Ericsson noted.

Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected, as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, notes the 2011 BroadSoft Mobile Enterprise of the Future survey. This trend could be an opportunity for mobile network operators, because enterprises believe their MNO is better positioned to deliver services such as video calling and conferencing, Web conferencing, voice mail, presence management and instant messaging than fixed-line providers like Microsoft, Google or IBM.

Although IT consumerization is a relatively new phenomenon, it cannot be ignored by chief information officers. IBM is taking steps to address enterprise-class requirements with a series of new mobile apps.

While chief information officers are figuring out what — and no longer when — they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.

Brazilian holding company EBX and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership to support the growth strategies of the two corporations. This strategic partnership …

IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company’s revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from …

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has bought $10.7 billion worth of common stock in IBM (NYSE: IBM) this year. Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Big Blue, but the 81-year-old billionaire has said he doesn’t intend to buy any more shares.

Virginia Rometty was elected the new president and CEO of IBM where she will succeed Samuel Palmisano on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano has been CEO since 2002, and will remain …

Big Blue held its 5th IBM Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. During the event, company said that cloud computing and emergent markets are pillars of …

Speaking at the IBM Forum event in São Paulo, Don Tapscott, author of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” said that due to the prevalence of the Internet, we are …

Emerging markets, such as Brazil, China and India, along with cloud-computing, analytics tools and solutions for a smart planet are IBM Corp.’s four main global initiatives. Big Blue believes that …

IBM Brazil highlighted innovation, collaboration integration and business intelligence during its IBM Forum event in Sao Paulo. “We are becoming more interconnected, with globally integrated enterprises in a smart and …