IBM - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Big Blue morphes into huge cloud business by swapping CEO Rometty with cloud, Red Hat chiefs

  If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question has been resoundly answered.

• Cisco and IBM offer a managed private cloud service

  Cisco and IBM have partnered to offer managed private cloud-as-a-service for VMware and IBM/RedHat OpenShift environments.

• IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security

  IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyber attacks.

• IBM: ‘Mac users are happier and more productive’

  IBM, which has embraced Apple hardware in a big way, says the employees who use Macs are more likely to stay at the company.

• Linux, containers, Kubernetes the standard for IT’s next era: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

  The combination of Linux, containers, and the open source Kubernetes orchestration platform effectively represent a new standard as enterprises’ digital transformation efforts enter “chapter two,” according to IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty.

• IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service

  The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.

• Blockchain will be the killer app for supply chain management in 2018

  The distributed ledger technology that underpins cryptocurrencies is now poised to disrupt supply chain management – especially in the global shipping industry.

• Apple's Mobility Partner Program comes out of hiding

  You won’t find many public references by Apple to its Mobility Partner Program, an expanding effort by the company to unite with software developers/integrators to boost sales of iPhones and iPads to businesses. But the veil of secrecy surrounding the program is thinning.

• Cisco, IBM may be interested in buying Imperva

  Security vendor Imperva is shopping itself around and may be attractive to the likes of Cisco and IBM, according to Bloomberg.

• Microsoft, IBM tout cloud services as key drivers of earnings strength

  It is earnings season, which for publicly-traded technology vendors in the cloud market means it’s time to update investors on the momentum of emerging products helping to displace eroding revenue from legacy offerings. For two technology vendor stalwarts – Microsoft and IBM - cloud computing has played a significant role in their earnings this quarter.

Whitepapers about IBM

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  Research Report: Competitive Review of BPM in the Cloud

  A high level review of Cloud BPM from Appian, IBM, OpenText and Pegasystems. This report focuses on the cloud-based BPM offerings now being delivered by many BPM vendors, it looks at each offering in terms of how well it addresses this cloud computing model. But it also takes into account the four key use cases for cloud-based BPM; an education vehicle for staff to gain BPM experience, a development and test platform, a platform for building workgroup processes to manage local task execution and workflow and a full cloud-based BPM deployment.

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  Improve Banking With the IBM Smarter Process Approach

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  Improve Insurance with a Smarter Process Approach

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  Forrester: The API Management Solutions Market Heats Up