Artificial intelligence has become virtually essential for an enterprise market grappling with big data and multicloud, but some businesses maintain concerns around security and job availability with the new automated solution. New offerings from IBM are designed to address these issues for increasingly complex digital environments, according to Eric Herzog (pictured, left), chief marketing officer and ...

In an enterprise market driven by decentralization and agility, the incorporation of blockchain technology is a natural next step. The recent cryptocurrency boom put a spotlight on blockchain in the mainstream market, but the tool itself still puzzles many businesses looking to leverage its value. Blockchain’s impenetrability is, in part, by design. The digital ledger ...

The rallying cry driving the era of digital transformation has been to “move fast and break things” in the name of rapid progress. But breaking things has consequences, and often ones that extend beyond the bottom line — especially when automated machines are the ones moving fast. Artificial intelligence has become indispensable to a tech ...

As enterprises enjoy the benefits of expansion in hybrid environments, they also face new hurdles in security and scale. New additions to the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services were built with these multicloud challenges in mind, according to Michael Jordan (pictured, right), distinguished engineer at IBM, and Rohit Badlaney (pictured, left), director of IBM Z ...

With hybrid cloud identified as enterprise endgame, information technology support companies are restructuring offerings to best serve heterogeneous workloads and environments. IBM’s new private cloud service updates aim to create a streamlined path for cumbersome enterprise businesses embarking on their multicloud journey. Rohit Badlaney (pictured, right), director of IBM Z as a service and blockchain ...

The incredible value of data that has earned it a spot above oil as the world’s most coveted resource is its potential to power business strategies with ultra-specific details that enable more informed decision-making. Now that organizations have that power, their next hurdle is effective implementation. Katie Dunlap (pictured, right), vice president of global unified ...

In an increasingly hybrid environment, customization for cloud computing is becoming a primary differentiator for information technology support providers. Accenture LLP is addressing enterprise collaboration needs through a new, flagship innovation hub in San Francisco, where businesses can work alongside experts to develop products, from ideation to scale. John Del Santo (pictured), senior managing director of the U.S. West ...

For years digital transformation has been endgame for the enterprise, the next plateau that would ensure market relevance through improved efficiency at a fraction of the cost. With hybrid cloud  addressing the complications of legacy workloads and disparate computing environments, the possibilities in cloud are virtually endless. Sometimes, that’s the problem. A market flooded with promising new technologies ...

Cloud computing has enabled unprecedented technology expansion and data proliferation, but not every workload was created to thrive off-premises. As enterprises explores custom solutions for the complex data sets that drive business strategy, the industry is seeing a revival of reliable, cost-efficient mainframe technology as a hub for hybrid cloud. Greg Lotko (pictured, right), senior vice ...

The enterprise pivot to hybrid computing has meant a fundamental transition among information technology support vendors pivoting to strategies that enable streamlined processes for customers working in multiple cloud environments. With its legacy technologies and new agility, the challenge of centralizing multicloud operations around one ubiquitous digital platform is one IBM appears uniquely suited to solve. ...