IBM - What's Innovative?

The GAI efforts of the technology world are focused like a laser beam on how to integrate GAI with their technology, to the greater glory of their customers.

ARTESCA is a simple, software-defined, commodity, S3 Object Store appliance, which makes Scality’s expertise available more widely.

People can confuse “working software” with delivery of actual business value. DevOps efficiency and, especially, effectiveness matters.

The journey to hybrid cloud is basically a modernisation journey. Don’t throw away something that works, and that you trust, if it can still be useful.

The metaverse doesn’t exist yet. Lots of people are talking about it and hyping it up, but in reality, they are talking about gaming platforms.

IBM talk about “transforming talent and the IT experience”, with “chatbots” that are becoming AI-enabled and evolving into Intelligent Digital Assistants.

Bill Gates was nearly right when he said “banking is necessary, banks are not”. Financial services are necessary, but they don’t have to be provided by banks.

Computer games have a pivotal role to play in changing the way we work – bringing remote working to a whole new audience.

David Norfolk sets the scene for a series of articles in which we will be considering the widening impact on organisations of the growing focus on ethics.

Revolution in IBM, as it spins out managed infrastructure services into a freestanding company, to concentrate on Hybrid Cloud.

Mainframe capabilities are still needed – but let’s refer to Enterprise Server 3.0 today.

Is possible Chinese sponsorship a threat to Open Source Software? Bloor's David Norfolk believes that the OSS model is robust enough to survive.

IBM is actively encouraging the movement of mission critical workloads onto suitable public clouds using what it calls Intelligent Workflows.

The appointment of new IBM CEO, Arvind Krishna might be one of the most significant weeks in its history as it sets foot on the path to a culture change.

Thousand Eyes' latest Cloud Performance Benchmark is a fascinating report for those using major cloud providers to run important operational applications.

Yet another graph update - SQL property graph extensions and IBM Compose supports JanusGraph

This is the first of several articles on the graph/RDF (and hypergraph) space. This one is generic, the others will be product/vendor specific.

As business becomes more Agile, better managing Risk (such as the GDPR risk) becomes paramount.

Java usage on z/OS, on the mainframe, is increasing. It is being used to extend critical functionality as well as for modernisation, but it needs managing.

The new z13s server from IBM brings the security of data encryption on the cloud for midsize companies, without slowing down system performance.

IBM and Informatica have both just come out with big data integration and governance products

dashDB is IBM's in-cloud warehousing as a service

IBM is doing some whizzy things with cloud

I think I finally understand the difference between Watson and Watson Analytics

IBM Mobile Accessibility Checker ensures that mobile apps will be more accessible at a lower cost. Similar checkers should be built in to all ICT development.

Report from IBM's Developer Connect 2014 conference in London.

This paper briefly considers relevant IBM technologies and solutions in the context of the requirements discussed

If you don't know what you have, where it is and how it is configured, how can you trust any of its outcomes?

Atego Vantage is a tool which integrates product line engineering with general systems development

Watson technology solutions are being deployed using mainstream DevOps processes

IBM has launched Data Click to provide self-service data integration

The modern System z is so much more than the mainframe as envisaged by people who've never used System z.

Preventative maintenance and asset optimisation are not the same thing

BLU Acceleration provides significantly improved query performance in IBM DB2 data warehousing environments.

IBM announces a raft of big data enhancements and products but forgets to mention DB2!

What is DevOps? Perhaps it's all about agile "just enough" governance of automation delivery.

The good and the great were at IBM's CMO+CIO Leadership Exchange summit last week to hear words of wisdom from the top global CEOs on digital marketing

Informix is targeting time-series based (instrumented) applications

IBM use their ability with analytics to bring a superior fan experience to the US open tennis

A quick look at how IBM have handled the many acquisitions that they have assembled to underpin their Business Analytics and Optimisation practise

Mainframe systems are important and the latest mainframes are innovative and powerful tools. This places a premium on knowledge transfer and training.

IBM is consolidating its servers into a few strategic locations using virtualised zLinux on mainframes - and claims considerable cost savings.

Serena has never been away, in reality; but it has changed its management team and now seems to be getting a much better story together.

If you thought mainframes were boring and only ran, possibly important but dying, legacy apps, the new zSeries from IBM may change your mind.

Part 1 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences

I have previously discussed why I think that System S is unique. Now I want to put some meat on the bones. System S has been the name of an IBM research project for some years and last...