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Digital operations and sustainability key for companies to survive COVID-19 crisis
There’s no question that the industrial sector is experiencing a crisis, as crude prices remain volatile and non-essential production shuts down. Statistically, a small percentage of companies will come out the other side of the pandemic as winners. But the majority will take years to recover financially, and some won’t survive at all. The question is: Which ...
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Luxury loses out as COVID-19 fuels trend for purpose-driven online purchases
Even before the enforced social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic closed shopping centers across the world, the public was shifting to making more socially aware purchases and shopping in short online sessions rather than spending days at the mall. Back in January, when COVID-19 was still a tiny blip on the news radar, IBM and the ...
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A leg up the AI ladder: Good foundation makes it easier to scale
Gaining valuable insights from artificial intelligence depends on having a basis of trustworthy data. No matter how cutting edge the technology, feed it data that has been haphazardly collected or poorly organized and the analysis results will be tainted. “To be able to have good AI you need a good foundation information architecture,” said Ritika ...
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Watson AIOps keeps an eye on complex business systems so CIOs don’t have to
The end goal of the digital journey has never been about adopting cool new technology. Sure that’s fun, but a business’ bottom line is profit. Yet dollars are being lost in downtime as businesses become dependent on new technology. The complexity created by operating across multiple environments, from the data center to public cloud, and out ...
Accenture, IBM and Red Hat combine expertise to help businesses choose the right cloud model
The closure of brick-and-mortar commerce across the world has brought the importance of digital preparedness to the fore. Yet only a fraction of workloads have so far been moved to the cloud. As hybrid and multicloud strategies become the more common models, choosing which workloads to move and where to move them is a complex job. ...
It’s time to reinvent how the government does business, and Big Blue is on the job
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught businesses that being able to respond to rapid economic changes is a competitive advantage. The digital hallmarks of agility and flexibility are now seen as essential for post-COVID survival. Many commercial companies have established cloud strategies, and others are well-advanced on the journey. But the public sector is trailing in ...
COVID-19 shocks the digital health market, but the jolt may be positive news
Early predictions for 2020 showed the digital health market was predicted to decline. Yet, as tech companies across the globe deal with fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, some areas of digital health seem to be benefiting from the demand for digitally assisted healthcare. Do the predictions of a decline still hold true? In a follow up to our original ...
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Red Hat honors women’s contributions to open-source community
A couple of decades ago, the thought of open-source software being embraced by traditional enterprise was almost laughable. But, as the value of collaboration becomes accepted by the corporate world, companies are increasingly putting diverse sets’ of open-source experts on the payroll. “Open source is no longer the disruptor,” said DeLisa Alexander (pictured, left), executive ...
Kubernetes evolves to take on new workloads as Red Hat OpenShift boosts virtualization
As all aspects of society move online, the ability to connect remotely is increasingly essential. Applications have to run here, there and everywhere. Speed is critical, and downtime inexcusable. So companies are looking to hybrid cloud solutions that allow operations on-premises, across multiple clouds, and out on the edge. “Our goal is really to provide a ...
Q&A: Red Hat prepares as the 5G, edge computing wave approaches
The future is technologically complex. 5G, edge computing, open-source software, the internet of things, and hybrid cloud are combining to bring about a tsunami of change. This mass convergence of high-tech advances will fuel yet another transformation of communication. And companies need to know how to prepare to take advantage of these new technologies. Getting down ...