One of the most important secrets of success for every company is doing analyst relations and media relations right. These are so important for creating a positive image in the marketplace for customers, investors, workers and partners. As an industry analyst and columnist for...
Companies expand partnership to boost app migration to the cloud
IBM and Docker recently announced they are extending their current partnership with an eye toward enabling companies to use Docker containers to transfer workloads to the cloud faster.
The collaboration will focus on three areas: expanding...
The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
The Velenje coal mine selected IBM for the provision of analytics, asset and facilities management as well as the IBM Maximo Asset Management
Operating within the Salek Valley, in Slovenia, the Velenje coal mine is one of the largest and most modern deep coal mining...
Trans-Atlantic encryption test seen as stepping stone toward commercialization
Ericsson, Telstra and Ciena have joined forces to trial continuous data encryption while ensuring speed and consistency over a 21,940 km multi-vendor network and cable system. The companies announced they successfully encrypted data in transit between...
Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...
Through the deal, Reliance Group enterprise IoT customers will have access to IBM Watson platform
IBM and Unlimit, a business venture of Indian conglomerate Reliance Group, have announced a strategic collaboration targeting the enterprise IoT space. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM and Unlimit...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Barry Baker, vice president leading offering and product management for IBM Z and LinuxONE, alongside Shaun Frankson, co-founder of The Plastic Bank, tag teamed a keynote presentation at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America. The duo’s presentation,...
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab will encourage MIT faculty and students to launch companies that will focus on commercializing artificial intelligence inventions and technologies
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source at SUSE, and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Lightning Talk: Human Enablement” at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America...
To combat the growing threat of cyber intrusions, VMware introduces new security tool that monitors data center applications
Data centers are challenged to combat the growing threat of cyber intrusions. For this reason, VMware recently unveiled AppDefense at VMWorld, a security solution that enables companies...
IBM has been one of the earliest corporate adopters of blockchain, using the technology to manage data for its Watson internet of things platform. Now the company plans to use blockchain to track food safety, and it is partnering with some of the biggest...
The booming NFV and SDN market
The network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) market is expected to be worth approximately $54.41 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of 71.4%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. Accompanying the report is...
Verizon teams up with Amazon to deliver virtual services at global scale
Verizon announced it has made its Virtual Network Services available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS cloud provides building blocks that can be assembled quickly to support workloads. Businesses leverage AWS...
IBM joins Telecom Sector Skill Council with push toward network functions virtualization
IBM Corp. recently announced it is collaborating with Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) in an effort to advance budding technologies like big data, cloud computing, virtualization and the internet of things (IoT) within...
The new automotive IoT offering will be delivered alongside IBM’s Watson IoT platform
IBM Security has launched two new security testing practice areas focused on automotive security and the internet of things (IoT). The company said the new services will be delivered via a team...
The firm has integrated IBM's Watson IoT platform and IBM Cloud services into its service offering
Arrow Electronics has integrated IBM's Watson internet of things (IoT) platform and IBM Cloud services into Arrow's ideation-to-production services. With this new offering, Arrow's customers in Asia Pacific will...
IBM Corp. debuted Monday the encryption capabilities of its new z14 mainframe, otherwise known as IBM Z, which is focused on combating the growing threat of data breaches.
The number of data breaches within the U.S. is on the rise. IBM purports universal encryption --...
Coventor is changing the way MEMS are made
The value of the internet of things lies in the data generated by billions of connected devices, and those devices need sensors to generate that data. Sensors measure temperature, light, speed, position, moisture, flow rate, activity level...
What is influence marketing? As it turns out, I have been an influence marketer for three decades. Who knew? And, one way or another, this affects every business. Let me share some important thoughts with you as one of these influencers. Companies use influencers...
The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the health care industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering healthcare solutions.
IoT is offering new tools as well as efficiencies that make up an integrated health care system...
It seems like 2017 is the IBM Watson coming out party. You may have noticed their new television ad campaign showing how Watson and AI will impact, transform and improve company after company in industry after industry. Are you ready for artificial intelligence? Well,...
The agreement includes IBM’s IoT, cloud computing, advanced analytics and cognitive business solutions for the oil and gas vertical
KBR and IBM have recently reached an agreement to collaborate on the development of digital IoT products for customers in the oil and gas and petrochemical...
Verizon cloud sale follows on sale of data centers to Equinix
Verizon has agreed to sell its cloud and managed hosting operations to IBM and plans to "work with IBM on a number of strategic initiatives involving networking and cloud services," according to a posting by...
